Headline : Kate Middleton Had to Tell Her Kids About Her Cancer Diagnosis. These Parents Know What That’s Like

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After weeks of fevered speculation, Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on Mar. 22 that she was absent from the public eye not because she was having marital problems or growing out a bad haircut, but because she was being treated for cancer. She and her husband had, she said, "taken time to explain everything to George, Charlotte and Louis in a way that is appropriate for them, and to reassure them that I am going to be OK." Even before her announcement, however, many cancer survivors who were also parents had already guessed at the truth. The silence and delay tactics looked familiar, because they had done the same thing when they got their own diagnosis.

"When you hear cancer, you just think, 'Oh, my goodness, I'm going to die,'" says Shambi Broome of Columbia, S.C., who was diagnosed at age 46 with colon cancer after a routine scan in 2022. "And then the next thought is, 'Wow, how do I tell my kids?'" Broome, who didn't know the full extent of her cancer until after she had an operation, waited until she was told she'd need chemotherapy before mentioning the C-word to her children, who were 13 and 18 at the time. Instead she told them she was having a part of her colon removed. "I didn't want to tell them anything until I could give them a full story," she says. "I didn't know what I would be preparing them for and I didn't want to scare them."

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That was also the case for Fiona Williams, some of whose children, at 17, 8, and 6, were close in age to the Windsor offspring when she was diagnosed in 2021. She mentioned nothing to them about her endometrial cancer until after her hysterectomy when she was told doctors had missed some and she'd need a further operation plus chemotherapy. "At that point, I thought that I'm going to have to tell my children now, because they're going to see me going through chemotherapy," says Williams, now 48. She tried to put as positive a spin on the news as she could, as they had already lost two relatives to cancer. "Of course the kids just start straightaway start crying, 'Oh, you're going to die, you're going to die,'" she says.

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