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Welcome to the club you didn’t ask to join. We're here to make it all suck a little less
and help you get busy living.
Get Busy Living
Stupid Cancer's mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
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Upcoming Webinars
In Sickness and In Health: Caregiving for Your Romantic Partner
Time: Thursday, October 21 at 4:00 pm ET
Cancer is a huge strain on a relationship, whether or not you’ve taken any wedding vows. Adding the responsibility of caregiver to a partner role adds a new, potentially complicated dynamic. How do you take care of your own needs and responsibilities when your partner is sick? How do you have difficult conversations about sex and intimacy? This session for partner caregivers of AYA cancer patients will address the unique challenges of caregiving within a romantic relationship and provide strategies and tools for caregivers to best support their partner, their relationship, and themselves.
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Grieving the Life You’re Living: The Cancer Journey
Grief is a common part of the cancer experience. For AYA patients and caregivers grieving the life they expected, this disenfranchised grief can feel complicated. Join this interactive discussion session to learn how grief shows up for some cancer patients, learn methods for processing these feelings, and connect to other survivors experiencing the same difficult emotions.
What is Mindset and Does it Really Matter?
Your mindset is the way you make sense of the world around you. This lens influences the way you think, the way you feel, and how you might behave in certain situations. In this session, we will talk about mindset myths that can get us into trouble and learn ways to cultivate a mindset that will authentically support your cancer survivorship.
Discussion Series: Mental Health after Treatment, Survivor's Guilt
After surviving cancer, many adolescents and young adults face a new and uncomfortable mental health challenge: survivor’s guilt. While processing and coping with the trauma of your own experiences, it can feel overwhelming to confront the grief and bereavement of AYA friends you may have lost. You may experience imposter syndrome for not feeling the “right” way after cancer or be frustrated with friends and family who don’t understand. In this discussion for adolescent and young adult cancer survivors, learn coping strategies and navigate these complex issues with peers that get it.
