Oct 30, 2023
Impact of childhood and adolescence cancer on family caregivers
The physical demands of caring for children and adolescents diagnosed with cancer, over a lengthy period, exert significant strain on the...
Mar 15, 2021
COVID-19 Impacting Caregivers of Children With Cancer
Caregivers of childhood cancer survivors are experiencing changes to medical care, financial disruptions, and emotional distress due to...
Sep 27, 2017
Caring at home for a child with cancer can leave family members with risky tasks
Central lines, standard for children with cancer, lead directly to a large vein near the heart. They allow patients with cancer and other...
Feb 5, 2016
How to Avoid Caregiver Burnout
7 Tips for Caregivers of Young Adult Cancer Patients and Survivors Read more here: https://cancerkn.com/avoid-caregiver-burnout/?platform...
Oct 30, 2015
From One Parent of a Child With Cancer to Another
This is a letter I am writing from myself as one parent of a child with cancer to another parent of a child with cancer. This letter is...
Oct 29, 2015
Advocating for Your Child: How much is too much?
When you are in the heat of the battle fighting for the life of your child, nothing at the time feels as though it is over the line. ...
Mar 12, 2015
When Cancer Hits, Engage Children Actively
Caregivers for children when there’s cancer in the family or when the child himself is diagnosed need to keep in mind three lessons that...
Mar 3, 2015
Caregivers and the Ultimate ‘What If’
Life presents many difficult challenges throughout the course of the years that unfold before us. Perhaps that is the ultimate...
Jan 21, 2014
Finding Flexible Work Difficult for Cancer Patients and Caregivers
A 2013 Léger national survey of cancer patients and their caregivers, commissioned by Sanofi Canada, sheds new light on the striking...
Apr 2, 2013
Silent Heroes - Parents as Caregivers to Seriously Ill Children
No one can imagine what it means to be a parent to a child with cancer – until they become one. Each year in Canada on average some 880...