How to Talk to Kids About Cancer Tuesday, October 7, 2008

With over 12 million cancer survivors living in the United States, many children are being significantly impacted when a parent is diagnosed with cancer. This episode will feature The Children’s Treehouse Foundation, the nation’s only organization providing hospital-based, cancer-focused, psychosocial intervention training and programming to improve the emotional health of children whose parents have cancer. Guests will give specific advice about how to talk to kids and reveal common misconceptions children have about cancer. Guests will include Peter vander Noot, Executive Director of The Children’s Treehouse Foundation in Denver, CO and Heather Hogoboom, caregiver and parent participant at The Children’s Treehouse Foundation.