World Cancer Day 2015Quality of Life - It’s not beyond us

A truly global event taking placeevery year on 4 February, World Cancer Day

unites the world’s populationin the fight against cancer

Why World Cancer Day is important

• Global cancer epidemic is huge and set to rise - 8.2 million people die from cancer world wide annually.

• WCD helps us to spread the word and raise the profile of cancer

Taking place under the tagline

‘Not beyond us’, World Cancer Day focusses on taking a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions do exist regarding cancer care and early detection and that they are within reach.

Cancer is not beyond us in terms of cancer control and reducing the impact of the disease.

Understanding and responding to the full impact of cancer on emotional, mental and physical wellbeing - will maximise the quality of life for patients, their families and caregivers

Our CANSA Care Centres country-wide offer comprehensive care and support programmes for all those affected by cancer to find the best care solution and advise on managing side effects of treatment, be it physical, emotional and/or spiritual.

For each person diagnosed, cancer is a unique experience. No two people will travel the same journey during and after cancer treatment.

How people cope when diagnosed, during or after treatment (or even when in remission), is different for each individual.

One common thread in all people with cancer is the need for a good support system

Support Groups

• Our active support groups connect patients, long-term survivors and their loved ones with others who have 'been there' for insight, moral support and understanding, hope and inspiration, and bereavement support when needed

Support Groups

Our support groups include:• ‘Hoping is Coping’ • ‘Sharing and Caring’ groups• Cancer specific groups (such as

prostate cancer support group)• Weekly visits to oncology centres • Tough Living with Cancer (TLC)

groups (support to children, teens and families affected by cancer)

For many people facing a cancer diagnosis, it’s the toughest fight of their lives. Maintaining social support networks and talking about cancer is important for both the person living with cancer and their caregiver.

Whether you are a newly diagnosed person with cancer, a person who has had cancer before, or the caregiver or loved one of someone with cancer, you might experience some form of emotional stress as part of the natural human response.

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling is a very effective way to unload some of that stress in a safe and supportive environment.

Our experienced counsellors can help you enormously in dealing with your feelings, aspirations and fears. Counselling is available for those with cancer, as well as their loved ones

Your donation ofR50 could pay for one individual counselling

session

Medical Loan Equipment• Care Homes rent out medical

equipment to cancer patients, such as wheelchairs, commodes or egg-shell mattresses, after surgery or during treatment

• Cancer treatment often results in hair loss. CANSA has many wigs to be rented or purchased

Marie Claire Kindest Cut Campaign

• CANSA partners with Marie Claire and challenges readers to join in the Kindest Cut Campaign

• Readers are challenged to donate their hair or make an online donation to CANSA in order to supply wigs to our CANSA Care Centres for cancer patients – please visit http://www.cansa.org.za/marie-claire-kindest-cut-campaign/

How to make Hair donations:• Hair should be 25cm or longer

• Hair has to be clean and dry

• When cutting the hair, please bind both ends with an elastic band and place in a zip-lock bag

• To find out where to send the hair and make a donation, visit http://www.cansa.org.za/marie-claire-kindest-cut-campaign/

CANSA Care Homes

We provide home-from-home accommodation to patients undergoing cancer treatment far from home

Patients at our many CANSA Care Homes around the country stay for an average of six weeks and receive meals and transport to and from treatment centres

In the past year, CANSA...• Welcomed 3 562 individual patients

to our 12 CANSA Care Homes where they were served a total of 320 580 meals (average of a 6-week stay per patient)

• Facilitated Home Based Care for13 397 patients

• A total of 18 335 paediatric cancer patients, siblings, family members and their loved ones received CANSA TLC care and support

Your donation of R1 300 could help us provide one nights’ lodging, food and

transport to a cancer survivor undergoing treatment far

from home

CANSA Care Facility

Very ill cancer (and other) patients receive excellent nursing care at our 8-bed Theunis Fichardt Hospitium in Polokwane

CANSA Support for children, teens & familiesWe provide free lodging for parents/guardians, whose children are undergoing cancer treatment, at our CANSA TLC Lodge in Pretoria, TLC Paediatric Oncology Ward in Polokwane & CANSA TLC Support Room in Durban

+ CANSA TLC Support Rooms in Kimberley and Port Elizabeth

For more info and pictures, visit…• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-irma-bruschi-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tygerberg-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-eikehof-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-strelitzia-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-mkhuhla-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-katleho-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-olea-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-james-kingston-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tlc-paediatric-ward/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-limpopo-care-home-cansa-theunis-fichardt-hospitium/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tlc-nicus-lodge/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tipuana-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-lukholweni-care-home/

• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-keurboom-care-home/

Specialist care offered at some of our CANSA Care Centres involves treatment of complications resulting from cancer treatment - specifically lymphoedema, stoma and treatment of acute and chronic hard-to-heal wounds

CANSA also offers breast prostheses, expertly fitted by trained CANSA staff and volunteers are also sold at some Care Centres, which also includes counselling and support during this process

Please visit our website to confirm if your CANSA Care Centre offers this service.

www.cansa.org.za

Acute and Chronic Wound Care• The body heals wounds through a

natural process. At times, however, some wounds - big and small - don’t heal the way they should

• At some of our CANSA Care Centres, we give advice and offer specialist wound care

Stoma Care

• We offer pre- and post-operative counselling and actual positioning of the stoma

• Incontinence advice and coping skills are given to patients and families

• We also offer the sale of cost effective stoma products

CancerCare Coping Kit

• We know how scary and stressful a cancer diagnosis can be. That’s why our CancerCare Coping Kit (2 audio CDs) is great - it provides practical advice to people newly diagnosed with cancer as well as their loved ones and caregivers to ease the cancer journey and to take control by making informed choices

• Now also available in booklet form – contact your CANSA Care Centres countrywide, or download from our website.

Your donation ofR120 could help us

produce a CancerCare Coping Kit for a cancer

survivor

CANSA supports survivors online

http://www.isurvivor.org.za

A free, e-mail based programme written by a cancer survivor to help other survivors cope better. It’s a manageable guide with all the helpful resources available such as health information, where the nearest CANSA Care Centre is, how to lead a balanced lifestyle, how to reduce the risk of recurrence of cancer and where to find counselling and support

CANSA supports survivors online

• Please log on to our CANSA national Facebook page:

CANSA The Cancer Association of South Africa

• If you are a survivor, please visit our Facebook group in support of cancer survivors:

Champions of Hope - CANSA Survivors

• Also take a look at our CANSA Twitter page:

@CANSA - http://twitter.com/cansa

• Follow us on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/CancerAssociationOfSouthAfrica

• Join us on Pinterest:

http://pinterest.com/cansa/

• View our videos on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/can1000sa

In the past year, CANSA...

CANSA Care Centre teams provide early detection screening programmes:• to help reduce the cancer risk enable more effective

treatment and a better chance of recovery

• Our nine Mobile Health Clinics travel to remote areas to provide screening and early detection programmes

Community-based cancer care programmes

• Communities far from CANSA Care Centres will continue to benefit from our existing community-based cancer care programmes

This includes:

• Regular cancer screening clinics, reaching as many people as possible and assisting to refer those diagnosed with cancer and who need treatment

• We also offer training of home-based carers in communities

Community-based cancer care programmes

• Mobile Health Clinics travel to remote areas throughout South Africa to reach people who would otherwise not have access to screening

Community-based cancer care programmes

Your donation ofR4 500 could help keep our Mobile Health Units

going for a day

SureTouch - breast cancer

screening

FotoFinder - Mole mapping dermoscope devices for detecting skin cancer

• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) - finger-prick blood test to help

detect prostate abnormalities

• Pap smears - early diagnosis of

cervical cancer screening

• Lifestyle Risk assessments – quick survey to assess your possible risk of developing cancer

Help CANSA expand its cancer

screeningprogrammes,

please consider making a donation

at any of our CANSA Care

Centres and Clinics country-wide

Your donation of

R60 will help pay for one

PSA finger prick test for

one man

Your donation of

R120 will help fund one

SureTouch breast

examination for one

woman

Your donation of

R100 will help fund one

FotoFinder mole analysis

for one person

Your R60 donation

will help fund the LBC

consumables for one Pap

smear test

Health awareness campaigns

We aim to promote health and reducing the cancer risk

– Balanced Lifestyle

– SunSmart

– Anti-tobacco

– Women’s & Men’s Health - as well as Children & Youth health

– Environment - avoiding carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)

As well as active participation in Wellness days

Fact Sheets

and Position Statements

Over 100 cancer fact sheetsare available on www.cansa.org.za to help

educate & reduce the cancer risk

In the past year, CANSA...

Dedicated CANSACall CentreFriendly and informed staff at our toll-free call centre provide compassionate customer service, awareness materials, information and referrals for anything related to cancer support and care. We are here to answer your questions or concerns

Get in touch with us:Call us toll-free on 0800 22 66 22

In the past year, the CANSA Call Centre...

Responded to questions and requests from an average of 12 000 people per year

• Response from a cancer survivor via info e-mail:

‘’Many, many thanks for the time and trouble you have taken to investigate and reply.

It is really appreciated and I am sure that you will appreciate that I will really do anything to

try and prolong whatever life I have left’’.

Another response from a caller whose father was diagnosed:

‘’Thank you so much for replying to my e-mail, best news I have heard

this month’’.

Get in touch with us:

Call us toll-free on 0800 22 66 22

Email info@cansa.org.za or

visit us at www.cansa.org.za

Your donation of R200 could help man the

CANSA Call Centre for 30 minutes

CANSA’s National Awards

• CANSA was recently awarded 2014 South Africa’s Most Trusted Brand in the Charity category, according to a Reader’s Digest survey.

• Based on sound governance, we have been able to be a leader in cancer control for over 80 years.

• CANSA is a registered non-profit organisation (000-524 NPO) and B-BBEE Level 4 Contributor.

In the past year, CANSA...

Your donation of R300 could help us print 600 awareness pamphlets

Watch our videos

Arch Bishop Tutu has a message for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeis0HRXXk&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g

CANSA Care and Support:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNltOAZSwE&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g

CANSA Screening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfq5z3MtSz4&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g

“Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live” - Marcia Smith

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Disclaimer:

Whilst the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has taken every precaution in compiling this presentation, neither it, nor any contributor(s) to this presentation can be held responsible for any action (or the lack thereof) taken by any person or organisation

wherever they shall be based, as a result, direct or otherwise, of information contained in, or accessed through, this presentation.