Patient Support Groups: Helping Patients and their caregivers cope with the diagnosis of Cancer A diagnosis of cancer can bring out strong fears and anxieties in the affected family or social unit. While timely access to treatment and family support can go a long way in erasing these fears, there is a growing sense of isolation that sets in which can have a big impact on patients’ emotional well being. No one knows what someone is going through unless they are going through it themselves. Patient support groups address this need of sharing and learning from each others’ experiences.
Although in western countries patient support groups are an established section of the health care community, in many other countries this is still a novel approach to self help. That is, until now. In the past few years The Max Foundation has fostered the formation of patient groups in the communities where we operate as a means to build community resources and provide patients with emotional support. |
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 7th of Aug – FOM meet at Bombay Hospital. Mixed feelings – shall I go or give it a miss – I’m new. I don’t know anybody! But the warm invitations the gentle coaxing to attend by one and all from Vijiamma, Gita, Sharon, Melissa and all tipped the scales in favor of attending!
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One more interesting aspect of the FOM All India Meets is the kit bags packing session and I would like to share some feelings about this with all of you. This is the time when most of the bonding happens… the FOM group gets to know each other, draws closer and the best of communications come out. Playing mischief and fooling around goes hand in hand with the packing.
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Ignorance about, and misconceptions and myths surrounding cancer have been the main causative factors leading to such a high incidence of cancers in our part of the world. Keeping this in mind FOM Chennai had planned to hold a 2 kilometer “Cancer Awareness Walk” that would be the ideal way to kickstart the 5th Annual FOM All India Meet.
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Transcript of Dr.V Shanta's speech at the Chennai All India FOM Meet
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(WENT TO CHENNAI.. TOUCHED THE SKY)
Up at 5 am and out at 6.30, driving towards the venue of the All India FOM Meet Chennai 2010. Chennai is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, a Southern State of India, boasting one of the oldest cultures in the world, with their language Tamil pre-dating Sanskrit.
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From Vaishnavi Venkatesh – Friends of Max Chennai who gave us the breathtaking artwork which breathed life and colour into our Theme “Towards a New Dawn”
The Friends of Max along with The Max Foundation organized its big yearly countrywide meet over the weekend of the 22nd and the 23rd of May.
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