How to help a friend with cancer | Christopher Gorelik | TEDxOaksChristianSchool

In the past 15 years, great strides have been made in cancer research. As a result, oncologists say most of their patients will now survive for the vast majority of cancer diagnoses. However, the treatments are still grueling and cancer patients must live both literally and figuratively in an isolated “parallel world”. As multiple cancer survivor Chris Gorelik points out, friends are needed to help someone with cancer stay connected to their "regular world”. Unfortunately, friends disappear when they do not know what to do or say to help. In this talk, Chris Gorelik provides the listener with simple, straightforward ideas about how anyone can make a big difference for a friend with cancer. G. Christopher Gorelik is a multiple cancer survivor, podcast host and former Wall Street executive. He worked with Smith Barney from 1989-2010 as a Financial Advisor, a National Training Officer, and a Branch Manager. In 2010, he was diagnosed with the first of his multiple cancers. Over the last eight years, he has received numerous chemotherapy treatments, experimental procedures, a bone marrow transplant and an Onmaya Reservoir (a catheter implanted into the brain for more direct chemotherapy treatment). He is currently the co-host of a podcast called The Cancer Card, which aims to pull back the dark veil of cancer to reveal a lighter, more hopeful side to the disease. Mr. Gorelik received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and lives in Westlake Village, CA with his fiancé, Jennifer, and their four children. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx