Metastatic Breast Cancer at a Young Age
Young women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer often have unique experiences because of the career, family and social features of their age. Learn more.
Metastatic Breast Cancer at a Young Age
Young women diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer often have unique experiences because of the career, family and social features of their age. Learn more.
Coordinating Support for You and Your Family
It’s not often easy to ask for help. But there are times when metastatic breast cancer patients and their families can greatly benefit from the help of others.
These programs make it easy for you or a family member or friend to allow your community to rally and support you in the ways that you need.
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- Losta Helping Hands: Create a Care Community
- Meal Train: Organize Meals for a Friend After a Birth, Surgery or Illness
- Caring Bridge: Tools to Keep Family and Friends Updated During a Difficult Time
- Cancer Support Community: My Lifeline
- Take Them a Meal: Meal Coordination
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Talking to Kids About MBC
If you are a parent, there will come a time when you need to talk to your child(ren) about your diagnosis of metastatic breast cancer.
Below are articles, personal stories and websites that can help you have that conversation. We’ve also included a link to a children’s book, The Cancer That Wouldn’t Go Away.
If there are resources we missed that you have found helpful, please let us know.
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- Living Beyond Breast Cancer: Talking with Children About Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Psychology Today: Mom with MBC Talks About Resilience
- Children’s Book: The Cancer That Wouldn’t Go Away
- The Firefly Sisterhood: Parenting with Cancer: Moms with MBC
- The Inquirer: When Her Cancer Returned She Had to Tell Her Kids
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Our MBC Life (podcast): How to talk to your children about your MBC diagnosis
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