Session: Networking: Parents of BRCA children

Facilitators: Paul Kredow, PsyD; Ziva Green-Kredow, MSEd

This 90-minute concurrent networking session will provide an opportunity for
parents to discuss issues and concerns associated with having children who are
or who might be at high-risk for cancer with other parents. Topics for discussion include:

• challenges associated with discussing hereditary cancer with minor and with adult children
• considerations before discussing risk with children
• coping with guilt associated with passing on risk
• coping with adult children who choose not to test
  

This session is appropriate for:

• parents with hereditary cancer or risk within the family
• spouses, relatives, loved ones of people with hereditary cancer in the family
• health care providers who treat parents with hereditary cancer in the family
• mental health care professionals who treat parents with hereditary cancer
  in the family

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