When you wish to retain your own lifestyle even after being diagnosed with cancer, you will need to understand very well beforehand about what will happen to you in the course of cancer therapy finance-wise, daily-life-wise and of course, health-wise including side effects from cancer treatments.
At the SCC, “the Patient and Family Support Center” opened in April, 2012, which has led to the openings of other patient-support-oriented facilities including “the Patient Support & Inquiries,” “the Chemotherapy Center,” “the Support Therapy Center” and “the Palliative Care Center.” Now, in order to support the cancer patients even further, it has been expanded its functions for providing them with helpful information and emotional supports. This is the closest to what the SCC originally wished for the ideal “Patient and Family Support Center” when it first started.
Information which cancer patients would like to have can be obtained quite easily via AV and internet on the computers installed there. Additional private consultation rooms, as well as an expanded space in the waiting room which could be accommodated for a study session or a meeting with medical staff from the community, have been built to accomplish the ideal place and system for supporting patients.
At the newly developed “Patient and Family Support Center,” one of the major purports of “the 3rd Term Cancer Control Programs,” “Living with Cancer” is being aimed and pursued. In order to make it happen, we try to face off against the 4 basic burdens which cancer patients would bear, “anxiety about cancer treatment,” “physical distress,” “mental distress” and “strain on life.” This is the core facility for supporting patients and their families who try to live with the disease.
