…emotional burden of cancer by providing transport to clients who are facing hardship in accessing their treatment View more Home to Treatment Guidelines Home to Treatment Guidelines including eligibility, suitability and designated service areas View more …
Increasing numbers of your patients will be diagnosed with cancer and will survive this disease to live with the long-term consequences. The need for, and benefits of, psycho-social peer support is well described in the literature. When you think about…
Giving treatment before the primary treatment to try and make the primary treatment more successful….
Cancer Council Queensland has partnered with Icon Cancer Centre to expand its home-to-treatment transport service to include the Moreton Bay region. The Transport to Treatment service, which currently operates in inner-city Brisbane, will now transport eligible cancer patients from their…
…said. “These findings highlight the need for improved distress screening and psychological care long after treatment ends. “Issues such as sexual dysfunction, urinary and bowel changes, and even fear of recurrence can all lead to elevated psychological distress. “For optimal…
Supportive treatments that are used in conjunction with conventional treatment. They might improve general health, wellbeing and quality of life, and help people cope with side effects of conventional cancer treatment.
Side effects of cancer treatment that occur several months or years after treatment.
A treatment given with or shortly after another treatment to enhance its effectiveness.
The application of the right treatment for the right patient, at the right dose, and at the right time. Also known as individualised treatment….