Story on MedTrackAlert: How to Talk to People With Cancer

A editor with MedTrackAlert found me through my blog and asked me to do some writing for them.

This is the first piece that's been published. It first went out in an e-mail newsletter and then was posted to the Web site.

Those of you who know me will recognize that what to say--and what not to say--when someone you know has cancer is a topic close to my heart. No writer's block with this piece!

How to talk to people with cancer

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@ Jeanne Sather 2008.

Comments

[Beryl Gorbman]

Excellent article, as always. I think some people, when they hear someone has cancer, get panicky and scared and the damndest things come out of their mouths.

[jeanne]

Beryl--you're absolutely right. But some of those things can really be devastating to the person with cancer.