Prostate Cancer Guide — A comprehensive resource on caregiving for a prostate cancer diagnosis

There are no two ways about it: having a cancer diagnosis in your family is hard and life changing. Despite increasing optimism about treatment, today’s cancer landscape can be challenging as patients and caregivers have access to an unprecedented amount of information. Caregivers can be friends, family, or loved ones. Anyone can be a caregiver for a man with prostate cancer.

The team at the International Prostate Cancer Foundation has worked hard to create a comprehensive guide on caregiving for a prostate cancer diagnosis. There are literally millions of cancer-related webpages, blogs, and videos available at your fingertips. A cancer diagnosis can be disorienting, and for many, the overwhelming volume of information available can be more of a burden than an aid. And from the caregiver’s perspective, understanding how to lend support to a man on this journey can be difficult.

Caregivers may take on many roles during a man’s prostate cancer journey. When a loved one is diagnosed with prostate cancer, those around him may find that they quickly have to become an information specialist, a financial advisor, a medical translator, and a source of emotional support.

The Prostate Cancer Caregiver Guide is not intended to be followed like a book that you read from beginning to end. Rather, it can be referenced, as needed, for each topic that is relevant to your care experience. This guide focuses all the information available about caregiving for prostate cancer into one consolidated resource. It is for any person(s) who have a newly diagnosed loved one, who is in treatment, or is concerned about a rising PSA.

Who should read this guide?

All caregivers, family, and friends of a loved one diagnosed with prostate cancer could benefit from reading this guide. Beyond that, it’s for anyone who wants to cut through the information overload and confusion and get directly to need-to- know information for prostate cancer patient care.

You can download this guide and many other prostate cancer resources at the link below.

https://www.fightingprostatecancer.org/downloads-guides