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When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens

People with MEN1 have a very high risk of developing tumors of 3 glands: the pituitary, parathyroid, and pancreas. About one-third to one-half of people with this condition also develop adrenal adenomas or enlarged adrenal glands. These usually do not cause any symptoms. This syndrome is caused by defects in a gene called MEN1. People who have a family history of MEN1 or pituitary, parathyroid, pancreas, or adrenal cancers should ask their doctor if they might benefit from genetic counseling. Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) People with this syndrome develop hundreds of polyps in the large intestine. These polyps. | National Cancer Institute When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer A GuàcẰe. for Teem U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES National Institutes of Health ooklef j If your brother or sister has cancer this booklet is for you. In this booklet you will Hear from other teens who like you have a brother or sister with cancer Find out what has helped them Get ideas about people to talk with when you re upset or feel all alone Learn a little about cancer and how it s treated. This booklet can t give you all the answers but it can help you prepare for some of the things you might face. There is a team of people working hard to help your brother or sister get better. You should know that there are also many people available to help you. No one should go through this alone. Free copies of this booklet are available from the National Cancer Institute NCI . To learn more about cancer or to request this booklet visit NCI s Web site www.cancer.gov . You can also call NCI s Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER 1-800-422-6237 to order the booklet or talk with an information specialist. I VA0VJ To Uxe TUùr Ế ooldefr You may want to read the booklet from cover to cover. Or maybe you ll just read those sections that interest you most. Some teens pull out the booklet now and again when they need it. You may want to share this booklet with others in your family. It might help you bring up something that has been on your mind. You could ask people in your family to read a certain chapter and then talk about it together. We ve put words that may be new to you in bold. Turn to the glossary at the end of this booklet fortheir definitions. Wherever you go go with all your heart. -Confuci us 2 Table of Confenhr This Booklet Is for You pagel CHAPTER 1 You ve Just Learned That Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer pages CHAPTER 2 Learning About Cancer page 15 CHAPTER 3 Cancer Treatment page 19 CHAPTER 4 Becoming a stem Cell Donor page 31 CHAPTER 5 What Your Brother or Sister May Be .