how to talk to kids about cancer

With over 12 million cancer survivors living in the United States, many children are being significantly impacted when a parent is diagnosed with cancer. This episode features The Children’s Treehouse Foundation, one of the nation’s premiere organizations providing hospital-based, cancer-focused, psychosocial intervention training and programming to improve the emotional health of children whose parents have cancer. Guests give specific advice about how to talk to kids, as well as common misconceptions children have about cancer. Guests include Peter vander Noot, Executive Director of The Children’s Treehouse Foundation in Denver, CO and Heather Hogoboom, caregiver and parent participant at The Children’s Treehouse Foundation. .Click HERE to listen.