This booklet provides support and advice to help you talk to children of any age, including teenagers, about cancer. It includes suggestions about how to tell a child or teenager you have cancer, understand their reactions, help them cope, explain cancer treatments and deal with changes to your family life.

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This resource was last revised in March 2024.