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When You're the Caregiver
When You're the Caregiver Caring for a Loved One with Cancer

Many women experience the impact of cancer through the diagnosis of someone they love. When women become caregivers, they often balance their other primary responsibilities—which might include managing the home and caring for children, working outside the home, and monitoring their own health—with the care of their loved one.

Women&Cancer recognizes that women who are caregivers are looking for current, useful, and inspiring information that they can use in their daily lives. And while these topics might include treatment topics related to their loved one’s diagnosis, topics covering prevention, screening, and wellness information will also help caregivers themselves keep an eye on their own health, and spiritual and emotional topics will increase their understanding of their loved one’s experience and also help keep their own sprit sound.

Summer 2009 Articles
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Treat Her Like a Princess
The Girlfriend’s Guide to Breast Cancer Support
Additional Articles
Caregiving and Sibling Relationships: Challenges and Opportunities
By the Family Caregiver Alliance
Taking Care of You: Self-Care for Family Caregivers
by The Family Caregiver Alliance
What the Men in Your Life Should Know About Cancer Screening
They are less likely to go to the doctor for regular checkups, but cancer screening is just as important for the men in your life as it is for you.
In Sickness and in Health
How one couple found their way through the rough waters of a cancer diagnosis and the first year that followed
Judith Guiliani: A Caregiver's Perspective
Judith Giuliani knows a thing or two about healthcare. She is trained as a registered nurse, and her extensive medical and scientific background includes work for Bristol-Myers Squibb and special training in the area of infectious diseases. But even so, she says, no amount of background or experience can prepare you for a cancer diagnosis of your own or of a loved one.
Us Too International
The Chinese proverb To know the road ahead, ask those coming back figures prominently on the page describing the mission and the programs of the Us TOO International Web site. The proverb goes a long way in describing the mission of this 16-year-old advocacy organization dedicated to serving prostate cancer survivors and their partners and families.
A Man's Disease, A Woman's Issue
If your spouse, partner, companion, or family member has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you know that this disease affects the entire family—not just the man facing the diagnosis. While the patient experiences cancer in his body, those closest to him have a cancer experience that is also very real.
Women and Prostate Cancer
If your loved one is facing the possibility of prostate cancer, you’re suddenly confronted with many decisions regarding diagnosis and treatment. Considering all of the options can be overwhelming, but by learning about cancer issues that affect men, we may be able to help the men in our lives receive the best possible care. The story of Ian Drewett and his wife, Wendy Barr, is one example of a couple who took on prostate cancer and the issues and decisions it involved.
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