Table 5.

How Hard is it To Talk About... ? Percentage of parents reporting difficulty

Topic	Mother (%)	Father (%)
Anxiety about treatment outcome	53	59
Coping with the disruption to your life	40	41
Relationship to spouse since diagnosis	47	27
Feelings about child with cancer	44	32
Feelings about your other children	28	16
Cancer	21	22
Cancer treatment	16	14
Feelings about Clinic staff	2	5
N (mothers) = 43; N (fathers) = 37.