Working with Your Care Team to Plan the Transition

Pediatric cancer: making the decision to stop treatment is the hardest decision a parent will make in their whole life.
Robin Kanarek, mother of an adolescent who had leukemia, talks about parents’ having awareness that their child could not survive the cancer and that doctors don’t speak of all the potential outcomes. “You as a parent have to ask the tough questions.” She tells the story of a doctor who pushed back aggressively against parents who wanted to transition their son’s care, post multiple relapses, to hospice.
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Pediatric cancer: making the decision to stop treatment is the hardest decision a parent will make in their whole life.
