You have heard about compassion fatigue and burnout happening to oncology professionals such as ourselves. Well, it can happen to family caregivers too, especially those caring for a loved one with advanced cancer.
Family caregivers are drafted suddenly—usually just a few hours after a person learns they have been diagnosed with a serious cancer. Everyone is in a tailspin, and despite this chaos, the newly appointed family caregiver must pull it together—and fast.
