Cancer does not occur in a vacuum - it has a major impact on family, friends and colleagues. When a parent has cancer, the whole family experiences cancer. For a parent, there are many questions to answer. How much, and what to tell the children is a frequent concern. Do young children need different information to teenagers? What do we know about how children really feel regarding a cancer experience in the family? Professor Kate White from the University of Sydney Nursing School answers these questions.A Sydney Ideas talk from 24 September, 2014 http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2014/professor_kate_white.shtml