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19 Ways to Help Someone During Cancer Treatment

By Laura Nathan-Garner — 2018

When someone you know receives a cancer diagnosis, you want to help. But how? We asked our Facebook community to share helpful things friends and family members have done to support them. Here are their suggestions.

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Balancing Work, Life and Caregiving: You Can’t Go It Alone

Try your best to remain open to all possible solutions and communicate honestly with the people in your life.

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How to Reinforce Positive Support & Mitigate Toxic Relationships During and After Treatment

We each have the power within ourselves to make this diagnosis seem like a gift. Use it to weed out the toxic relationships and reinforce the positive support squad you deserve.

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Please Help Out Those with a Disability or a Chronic Illness. You’ll Also Help Yourself.

I’ve been disabled and intensely ill with the degenerative neuro-immuno illness myalgic encephalomyelitis (formerly known by the misnomer “chronic fatigue syndrome”) for 30 years.

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How to Ask for Help

Learn to communicate skillfully with others so you can get the help you need.

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The Fear of Being a Burden

Accepting help from others when you have a cancer diagnosis isn’t a sign of weakness.

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How to Be a Friend to Someone with Cancer

Research has shown that people with cancer need support from friends. You can make a big difference in the life of someone with cancer.

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