How best to support

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Very early in my brother's cancer journey, looking for any tips on how best to support him along the way, while I'm trying to do all I can there must be something else I can do, what have you found to be the most important part of support?

  • Hi  

    Welcome to our community I hope you find it both information and supportive.

    I think many would say the most important part of support can be listening, I know in order to do this as well as I could then the first thing I really needed was to deal with my own emotions. Quite a tricky element in the early cancer journey can be waiting for results.

    Sometimes people fear that if they reveal a diagnosis they will be treated very differently and so do not want to be seen as "the cancer patient". Doing things together that you like can be really helpful.

    <<hugs>>

    Steve

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