When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens

This guide is for young people who have a parent with cancer. You are not alone. Find out what has helped other teens get through this tough time.

Use this guide to get information and advice on:

• Ways to deal with changes your family may go through
• Dealing with stress
• Finding support and talking with your friends
• How you can help yourself and your parent
• Cancer, treatments, and side effects
• Life after treatment and the road ahead
• Additional resources and organizations

Tested and developed with advice from teens, this guide includes quotes from teens who have a parent with cancer, checklists to help you get support from others, and a section of related organizations and resources.  

The information in this booklet was last updated in February 2012.