MORE young people are likely to be highly distressed if their father has cancer than if their mother has the disease, a new study shows.
The finding surprised researchers, who are trying to understand what support younger people need when a parent is diagnosed with cancer.
"One possible explanation is that the caregiver within a couple often experiences higher levels of distress than the patient," says Dr Pandora Patterson, head of research at the youth charity CanTeen.
"If the mother is caring for the father, this could potentially have a greater impact on the children.
"Every year, another 21,000 young people face the challenge of having a parent diagnosed with cancer, which often leaves them feeling vulnerable, frightened and confused."
In Australia overall, nine per cent of young people feel high or very high levels of distress.
This leaps to 55 per cent when a mother has cancer and to 72 per cent for a father, according to the research among 255 young people.
Another finding was that cancer returning to a family through a parent relapsing leads to more psychological distress than the initial diagnosis.
"These results are astounding in terms of the levels of distress," says Dr Patterson, a speaker at a Cancer Nurses Society convention in Brisbane on Friday.
"In general, females have and exhibit more stress, which in turn could have a strong impact on the children.
"It is also known that when women are in the caring role they have a greater fear of the patient relapsing than the patient themselves."
CanTeen supports people aged 12 to 24 who are living with cancer, either their own or that of a family member.
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