Developing a free supportive care program for cancer patients within an integrative medicine clinic.
Support Care Cancer
; 11(5): 263-9, 2003 May.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-12690540
ABSTRACT
The cancer patient's journey not only includes a threat to one's life, but the need to face many medical and emotional challenges. The free Cancer Supportive Care Program (CSCP) within the Center for Integrative Medicine Clinic at Stanford University Hospital and Clinics has been identified as a successful model for helping patients to deal with these challenges. Its programs include informational lectures, support groups, chair massages, exercise, alternative modality classes, a Life Tapes Project, an informational website, and a bimonthly newsletter available free to anybody touched by cancer. Now in its third year, this program benefits from a blending of leadership resources, availability of space, institutional agreement on patient need and funds from private and corporate donations. By presenting the basic premises of the Cancer Supportive Care program and outlining specifics about the program, institutions in various national and international demographic regions may implement similar programs according to their resources and the needs of patients. It is our hope that the CSCP can become a model for the development of similar programs in various parts of the United States and abroad.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Palliative Care
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Oncology Service, Hospital
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Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
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Continuity of Patient Care
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Neoplasms
Type of study:
Evaluation_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adult
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Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Country/Region as subject:
America do norte
Language:
En
Journal:
Support Care Cancer
Journal subject:
NEOPLASIAS
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Year:
2003
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
United States