Searching for information and support online
Published: Apr 2025
Next review: Apr 2028
Help and advice for parents and families of children, teenagers and young adults with cancer.
When you are told your child has cancer, life turns upside down in an instant. You can be left feeling shock, fear and confusion and questions can run through your mind day and night. For most people, searching the internet is usually the first choice to find quick and easy answers. But the huge amount of information online can be overwhelming, and sometimes conflicting, causing even more worry and stress.
As a parent or carer of a newly-diagnosed child, you may not feel confident when searching through cancer information. It is important that parents make sure that health information is filtered and gathered from reliable, easy to understand sources. This leaflet offers advice and tips on where to start and what to look for.
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How this resource was made
This leaflet was reviewed by the CCLG Information Advisory Group, comprising parents, survivors and multi-professional experts in the field of children and young people’s cancer.
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