When you request a Family Focus, you are reflecting the Gilda's Club belief that your entire family—however you may define its membership—can be a significant force in helping everyone involved learn together how to live with cancer.

From the moment of cancer diagnosis, the family is impacted. Whatever the family rules and roles may have been before, life is no longer the same for anyone. Myths and beliefs about cancer abound, very often unspoken. Each individual in the family has concerns—but just what are they? How to handle them? Not every family sits down at the kitchen table to develop a game plan.

Gilda's Club invites you to assemble your family at the clubhouse—parents, grandparents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins and anyone else you call "family"—to focus on utilizing strengths and making life with cancer work for everyone. If caring friends are "family," they're welcome to join you at a Family Focus session, too.