How to be a Better Caregiver for Cancer Patients | Josh Bedingfield

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Published Sep 17, 2025

The vast majority of us will become a caregiver to someone we love with cancer. Knowing how to help can give our loved ones more precious moments.

Driven by his sister’s death to brain cancer, Josh Bedingfield details what he realized during and after his family’s experience supporting Katie through her illness and loss: that chemotherapy and radiation aren’t the only options to help. Social support can better outcomes for cancer patients.

Through challenging family moments with brain cancer, processing death, and cycling across the continent, the talk that starts with “I need you right now” shows how social support can fight cancer.

Cancer patients need us right now.

Josh is deeply passionate about bettering cancer patients' and family outcomes, inspired by his late sister’s journey with Midline Diffuse Glioma, an aggressive and rare form of brain cancer. Josh has worked to improve cancer outcomes through advocacy, fundraising, local and international media, and cycling. At the time of the talk, he was a senior public relations major at UT Austin. 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