Both challenging and rewarding, the cancer caregiver experience can be very different for each person.
Both challenging and rewarding, the caregiver experience can be very different, depending on the circumstances, requirements and even the location between the caregiver and the person in need of assistance. The foundation of this important work is patience, dedication and flexibility, and as Andrea Walens, PhD, describes in the following blog, the experience can change over time.
In addition to reading more about Andrea’s story of caring for numerous family members, the blog link below shares information about FORCE’s partnership with the National Human Genome Research Institute and the confidential 15-minute survey to help gain more insight into the resource needs of caregivers of relatives diagnosed with hereditary cancer. This survey is open to everyone who is or who has been a caregiver, whether or not they have been diagnosed with cancer.
Patient Advocate Faces Thyroid Cancer Decades After Surviving Breast Cancer
September 5th 2023‘I feel like I've gone to continuing education classes as an advocate through reentering the health system in the cancer space,’ FORCE executive director and founder Sue Friedman, a breast cancer survivor who recently received a diagnosis of thyroid cancer, tells CURE.
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Stepping Up Again for Hereditary Cancer Prevention
February 25th 2023On Feb. 6, HB 2783 was introduced into the Arizona House. Hopefully this bill will help address some of the issues surrounding genetic testing, genetic counseling, and insurance coverage for those who might be at risk for hereditary cancer. My wife died of a cancer that was totally preventable. Nobody should die of a preventable cancer.
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