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Summary: Help someone who has cancer by building a strong support system for the person and helping them understand the feelings and pain. Avoid telling horror stories to people with cancer and consider information from a doctor in this free video on cancer.
Dr. David Cathcart has been a family doctor and occupational medicine specialist for more than 20 years. He works at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo.read more
"This is Dr. David Cathcart and I'm from Heartland Regional Medical Center and we're going to talk about how to help someone who may have cancer. Cancer can be such a devastating disease even the sound of the word is scary to somebody. So the best thing you can do is support that person. The last thing you want to do is to try and tell that person I know so and so who had such and such treatment and they had this problem or they had that problem. That's what the doctor's for. So the best thing you can do is be supportive of that person. Build a strong social network of people that help support. Help them get to the hospital or help them get to the doctor for the treatments. Help them to understand that it's okay when they hurt and it's okay when they're sick and that you're there to support them. Leave the diagnosis and leave the horror stories for the doctor. This is Dr. David Cathcart. Thanks for letting me talk to you today about how to help someone with cancer."
eHow Article: How to Help Someone Who Has Cancer
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