This website uses cookies. By clicking Accept, you consent to the use of cookies. Click Here to learn more about how we use cookies.
- home
- Forums
- Information and support
-
Blogs
Share your story in our online journal space.
- Online Support Groups
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for
- Cancer Connections
- :
- Family, Friends & Carers
- :
- Coping with a loved one's cancer
Coping with a loved one's cancer
How do you or did you cope with a loved one’s diagnosis? What are your needs during this difficult time? What happens when your role moves from partner or friend to carer? Find out how others cope or share your experiences.
Turn on suggestions
Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
Showing results for
Options
- Mark all as New
- Mark all as Read
- Float this Board for Current User
- Subscribe
- Bookmark
- Subscribe to RSS Feed
- Sort by Topic Start Date
|
Has anybody recently been diagnosed themselves or their loved one has been with throat cancer? there appears to be so much frightening information about the radiation treatment and associated side effects online, Im so glad he is not reading it, but I cannot help m...Read More
| |
|
Hi everyone , i am so glad to have found this site and im hoping you can help me accept and better understand why ive been turned away. I met a beautiful exciting man two months ago who made my heart skip a beat , we got together and from the first time he held me ...Read More
| |
|
My beautiful sister was diagnosed in January 2019 with Brain Cancer. Her prognosis is terminal and her condition has deteriorated significantly. The family have been caring for her as well as balancing work and their family needs. She has no mobility, difficulty sw...Read More
| |
|
hi everyone.i have had endometrial cancer stage 1a and come thru the other side. 6 years free on 2 September. My mum has lung cancer [6x2cm]. She has secondaries in liver and in hip [size 11x3cm]. She also has cancerous lesions on the spine. ‘Radiation been d...Read More
| |
|
Hello. I’m new to this this page. My loving partner was diagnosed with prostate cancer a few years ago. Luckily with his determination and the medical teams he survived, even though he was told he wouldn’t see xmas 2017. For this I am truly thankful & grateful. It...Read More
| |
|
I am Australian but my husband is Ukrainian. He is the only child and only surviving member of his mums family. She has just been diagnosed with Liver Cancer. She is also all the way in the Ukraine. It seems like it is secondary. I have also been retrenched and my ...Read More
| |
|
A couple of weeks ago my father wasn't even diagnosed!Since then he has had an awake craniotomy that removed a large portion of the tumour and is due to start radiation and chemo in coming weeks.I guess I am wanting to know how best to support him, and also my moth...Read More
| |
|
Hi there i have a beautiful amazing best friend who has just been given her second cancer diagnosis in 18months and I’m really struggling as to what I can do to help her. We don’t live close to each other so that makes it so much more difficult. this second cancer ...Read More
| |
|
I am new here.. kind of.. I have been reading Mostly...
my husband of 22 years was being treated for chronic sinusitis... for two years.. and the doctor up and retired without notice.. Thankfully ..I say this because if we hadn’t been forced to find a new doctor ...Read More
| |
|
Hello, I am deeply saddened to see howmany people are fighting this horrid disease. I am reaching out on this forum as my father was diagnosed with recurrent bowel cancer in 2017 which spread to his liver mid last year. Liver ablation was unsuccessful and resectio...Read More
|
Cancer Information and Support
Online resources and support Access information about support services, online resources and a range of other materials.
Caring for someone with cancer? Find out what resources and support services are available to assist you.
More information
Join the community
Cancer Council NSW would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work.
We would also like to pay respect to elders past and present and extend that respect to all other Aboriginal people.
© Cancer Council NSW 2024 Head Office Address: 153 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo NSW 2011.
Cancer Council NSW is registered with the Australian Taxation Office as an Income Tax Exempt Charity: Charitable Fundraising Authority No. 18521.