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5 Steps to Navigate the Cancer Caregiving Journey

By AARP staff — 2019

Information and conversation are key to facing the challenges of care

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Take Back Your Life: A Caregiver’s Guide to Finding Freedom in the Midst of Overwhelm

What starts as loving, compassionate care becomes an isolating, stressful, never-ending race to get everything done. Inevitably, anger and resentment creep in—toward the person being cared for as well as other family members who don’t pitch in...or both.

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Loren Gelberg-Goff
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AARP Meditations for Caregivers: Practical, Emotional, and Spiritual Support for You and Your Family

Family care giving has its challenges: emotional overload, time constraints, anxiety, burnout, missed work, adult sibling conflicts, and marital issues.

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Barry J. Jacobs, Julia L. Mayer
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Changes in Relationships after Cancer Treatment—Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Families need a game plan not only for coping with a cancer diagnosis, but also for changes that come with cancer survivorship, according to Dr. Vaughn Mankey from Massachusetts General Hospital.

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2010
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Managing Cancer-Related Anxiety and General Mood Changes

Being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing treatment can impact a patient's mental well-being. This video discusses anxiety and general mood as it can relate to a cancer experience.

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2017
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The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles...

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
2011
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“I Lost Both My Testicles to Cancer” | Battling Testicular Cancer and Depression

Movember ambassador and cancer survivor Ben Bowers battled testicular cancer twice—all before the age of 32. Hear about Ben’s cancer treatment, chemotherapy and how his fight led to depression and the end to his marriage.

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2018
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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Cynthia Hayes
2025
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2025
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Emotional Complications of Breast Cancer by Janet Harrison. (Especially Anger, Distress, and Asking for Help.)

Janet talks about feeling angry, feeling lost in the system, feeling isolated after initial treatment. Janet mentions benefits of psycho-oncology team (psychosocial care), voluntary services at Coping with Cancer (Helen Webb House) and also contacting Samaritans when desperate.

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2014
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My Cancer Journey—Hate & Anger

Here is video 4/5 talking about the emotion of Hate and Anger, two emotions that can lead you to a dark place. However I had to go through that darkness before I got to acceptance

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2019
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