Ebook: My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The News; 1.1 A Hunch; 1.2 Why Your Parents Told You the Way They Did; 1.3 Why You Reacted the Way You Did; 1.4 A Charged Word; Chapter 2: Cancer 101; 2.1 The Big Question Marks; 2.2 Treatments and Their Side Effects; 2.3 The Cure: Why Isn't There One Yet?; 2.4 True or False; 2.5 Tell Me More!; Chapter 3: Let's Talk: How to Keep Your Family Communication Lines Wide Open; 3.1 How Much Do You Want to Know?; 3.2 What If You're Out of the Loop?; 3.3 Reality Check: How Far in the Know Can You Go?;A book specifically for the family member most forgotten when cancer strikes a parent: teens Picture this: Your mom or dad has cancer-and suddenly, everything's different. Your parents are distracted by doctor's visits and treatments. Your friends can't understand what you're going through. And you feel like there is absolutely no one to turn to. Unfortunately this is the hard, cold reality that more than 1 million teens face every day. This is why writer Marc Silver and his daughter Maya Silver-who was a teenager when her mother was diagnosed with cancer-have compiled a collection of s.