CanHOPE held its second meditation and support session on 31 July, adding to its range of programmes that it holds to help cancer patients and their families cope with the disease.
Cancer is a word many have heard of, but few understand. A new television programme on Channel News Asia (CNA) will help people in Singapore understand more about cancer, what it is, and how it can be treated.
Since early August, Channel News Asia has been running a half-hour programme called A Journey of Hope. It will run over eight weeks and tells the stories from patients of different
types of cancer, featuring cancer survivors and speaking with oncologists about the latest in cancer treatment.
Advances in treatments mean that patients have greater hope
The word "cancer" tends to evoke fears of a death sentence, but this is no longer true. Great advances in medical science mean that cancer patients now have access to a wider range of treatments that are also more effective.
Doctors can now detect cancer tumours more accurately and thus determine the best course of treatment, thanks to the emergence of new technology and methods:
Magnetic resonance imaging
Strong magnetic fields and radiowaves - which are not radiation - are used in MRI to obtain clear, detailed images...
My recent travels brought me to Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, where I visited its National Cancer Centre. Liver cancer is the most common cancer seen at that centre. That visit brought back a painful memory of a liver cancer patient of mine who died after surgery three years ago. It haunts me still.
For the past few months, Parkway Cancer Centre (PCC) seemed to be the second home of our mom, the late Madam Chew Chin Hui.
As part of the holistic approach towards cancer treatment, Parkway Cancer Centre provides counseling and resource information through CanHOPE. CanHOPE is a non-profit service from which patients and the general public can receive accurate cancer information, related screening services and treatments via a telephone hotline and through email. CanHOPE also conducts face-to-face counselling and patient support group meetings to provide emotional and psychosocial support to all patients and their families.
For further enquiries, please contact CanHOPE at:
