This week's artwork was donated by Dathan, a pediatric cancer patient who received treatment at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia .
Many people have certain beliefs or attitudes about cancer that are untrue or misleading.
If patients don't correct these beliefs, they can interfere with their reactions to the diagnosis and its treatment. We have compiled a list of common questions about cancer in the hope of dispelling these myths. This idea probably developed because of the fears associated with the disease, especially years ago, when so little could be done for the illness and people avoided contact with patients because the disease was so frightening to them. While there is absolutely no scientific evidence that you can catch cancer from another person, some patients even today say that people have avoided them after their diagnosis. If you sense this happening, the burden often falls on the person with cancer to reassure people that cancer is not contagious.