Families affected by cancer tell the BBC of the traumatic effects on children and young people.

The opening conversation doesn't need to be perfect. It needs to be honest, calm, and clear.

Learning how to talk to kids about cancer is something no parent should need to do. Unfortunately, the reality for many families is that they will. Their announcements followed research published last ...

When Kate Middleton announced her recent cancer diagnosis, she emphasized the time she and her husband, William, Prince of Wales, took to share the news with their three children. Talking to ...

Kate Middleton has revealed that she gently informed her three children of her cancer diagnosis in an “appropriate way” and reassured them that she is “going to be OK.” In a video message, the ...

As a social worker in a breast cancer clinic, Liz Farrell meets a lot of young mothers. Her job is to sit beside them after they’ve received a diagnosis and guide them through the next step: telling ...

Fifty years ago, a diagnosis of childhood leukemia meant you needed to start planning your child’s funeral. Now it’s got an 85% cure rate, largely due to advances attributed to information gleaned ...

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Brain cancer has left Tayden Ybarra, 16, legally blind in her left eye, says her mother, Tammy Ybarra. “She doesn’t see side to side, up, down, only like a pinpoint in the front.” At school, bullies ...

Families of children with brain cancer are pleading with the federal and state governments to fund a proton beam therapy (PBT) service at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, saying it is heartless and ...