I have a lifetime commitment to advancing the science of family-focused cancer control research for adults across the lifespan. I have developed evidence-based, theory-driven behavioral interventions to assist household family members across the age span, including parents with cancer, gain skills and competencies to better manage illness-related threats, including cancer risk, cancer treatment, and threats to the family system that are caused by the cancer. My research experience includes the development of behavioral interventions to enhance the quality of communication, interpersonal support, and parenting competencies for parents and their children as well as conducting clinical trials to add to spouse-partner competencies to manage cancer-related symptoms and enhance the quality of their interpersonal relationship about cancer-related concerns and symptoms.