This Booklet Is For You
How To Use This Booklet
If your brother or sister has
cancer, this booklet is for you.
In this booklet you will:
- Hear from other teens
who - like you - have
a brother or sister
with cancer
- Find out what has helped
them
- Get ideas about people
to talk with when you're
upset or feel all alone
- Learn a little about cancer and how it's treated.
This booklet can't give you all the answers, but it can help you
prepare for some of the things you might face.
There is a team of people working hard to help your brother or
sister get better. You should know that there are also many people
available to help you. No one should go through this alone.
Free copies of this booklet are available from the National
Cancer Institute (NCI). To learn more about cancer or to
request this booklet, visit NCI's Web site (www.cancer.gov).
You can also call NCI's Cancer Information Service at
1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237) to order the booklet
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You may want to read the booklet from cover to cover. Or maybe
you'll just read those sections that interest you most. Some
teens pull out the booklet now and again when they need it.
You may want to share this booklet with others in your family.
It might help you bring up something that has been on your
mind. You could ask people in your family to read a certain
chapter and then talk about it together.
We've put words that may be new to you in bold. Click on the word to see the definition.
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