Cancer Prevention Counselling
Best Cancer Prevention Counselling services
Counselling is an important aspect of Cancer Management and Precision Plus Hospital provide best Cancer Counselling service in Undri Pune . The diagnosis of cancer puts the patient and his family in the state of cascading emotions. The stages that a cancer patient and his family typically go through can be explained as DABDA of emotions. One can need help of a counsellor at any of these stages of emotion. One can also need help for many other practical problems while dealing with cancer.
When Should You Contact Counseller?
You do not have to wait until you are referred by your doctor. If you answer yes to any of these questions, call us to schedule a consultation:
- Do you feel overwhelmed and don’t know how to cope?
- Are you having problem accepting the cancer within you?
- Is your overall distress interfering with your ability to participate in your medical care?
- Is your distress causing problems in other areas of life, such as at home with family, in your role as a parent or spouse, or at your job?
- Are you are looking for general support and counselling to help you cope with cancer?
- Do you want help talking with your family, children or friends about cancer?
- Are you looking for help talking with doctors and other medical staff?
- Do you want help in making healthy changes to your diet or your level of physical activity?
- Would you like to learn proven stress-management techniques, including breathing exercises, imagery and meditation, which may help you during your cancer treatment?
- Do you have a history of mental-health issues, and is cancer making these challenges more difficult?
- Do you feel like you need help in adjusting to symptoms or treatment side-effects?
- Do you want help finding ways to move forward after treatment ends?
- Do you struggle with fear that your cancer will return?
Types of Counselling:
- Individual counselling of cancer patient. This provides a one-on-one exchange with a counsellor to talk about troubling events, thoughts, and feelings. The counsellor will listen closely, express caring concern, ask questions, and offer feedback , insights and discuss way in which you can cope with the situation.
- Family counselling for the people supporting the cancer patient: When a patient is diagnosed with cancer, it is not an individual disease. The entire family is somewhere involved in the manifestation of this disease. The patient can only get well when the environment in which he lives is also healed. In my experience there are issues of discord and unhealthy relations in families of cancer patients.
These issues cannot be kept unattended if the cancer patient is to get well completely. Counselling of family and friends in the right direction is a stepping stone to curing a cancer patient. As a family or friend supporting the cancer patient thinks could get overwhelming for the support giver. The counsellor helps you to empty out your feeling s which as often not expressed. Together we will work out the best method to support the cancer patient. As a family you need a counsellor if you find yourself answering a yes to these questions do feel free to give make an appointment with us.
- Are you caring for a loved one who has cancer and feel like you need support?
- Are you a caregiver who is just feeling burned out?
- Are the emotional ups and downs of the patient too much to handle?
- Are you finding it difficult to get your cancer patient to cooperate for treatments, diets, and making healthy lifestyle changes?
- Are you looking for help dealing with grief over a recent loss?
Distinguishing cancer screening from early diagnosis:
Early diagnosis requires ensuring rapid patient presentation, diagnosis and treatment as soon as first symptoms appear. It is relevant to all types of cancer.
Screening, on the other hand, is relevant to a subset of cancer types only – namely cervical, colorectal and breast cancers, which together represent 28% of cancer cases in the WHO European Region. In the case of cervical cancer, screening enables cure at a precancerous stage of the disease with minor surgical treatments. This is not the case for breast cancer, or for colorectal cancer screening by fecal occult blood test.
Barriers to early cancer diagnosis and treatment:
Early diagnosis programmes focus on reducing delays between the detection of first symptoms and treatment by ensuring that:
- people are sensitized enough to consult health professionals as soon as symptoms appear, without being delayed by any financial, logistical or psychosocial barriers;
- the health staff consulted react appropriately and rapidly, thanks to adequate training and clear referral guidelines; and
- diagnostic and treatment services are accessible rapidly and deliver optimal quality at an affordable cost.
At all stages, barriers can reduce patients’ chances of being diagnosed and treated quickly. These include poor cancer awareness among the public; suboptimal knowledge at the primary health care level about cancer symptoms and/or adequate diagnosis follow-up; poor accessibility; low affordability and/or quality of diagnosis and treatment services (waiting lists, errors in diagnosis, administrative red tape, unclear referral pathways, etc.); and the many logistical, financial and psychosocial barriers preventing patients from accessing services rapidly.
A major objective of early diagnosis programmes is to reduce the prevalence of these barriers. This is also a prerequisite for implementing screening programmes, as to be successful they require rapid, adequate-quality diagnosis follow-up and treatment for people screened positive.
Early diagnosis programmes are comparatively easy and inexpensive to implement; since they cover symptomatic patients only, they are less extensive than screening programmes that target entire populations.