| Support Groups
Breast Cancer Support Group
For women who have been diagnosed with
breast cancer. Tuesdays, 4:30–6 p.m., MECC Lower Level Conference Room.
Facing Breast Cancer Together
For breast cancer patients and the men in their lives, including partners, fathers, adult sons, brothers and others. Third Tuesday of each month, 7–8:30 p.m., MECC Lower Level Conference Room.
Coming to Terms with Cancer
For cancer survivors, spouses, adult family members and friends. Mondays, 7–8:30 p.m., MECC Lobby.
Gynecologic Cancer
Support Group
For women who have been diagnosed with gynecologic cancer. Third Thursday of each month, 2–3:30 p.m., MECC Library Conference Room, first floor.
Prostate Cancer Support Group
For prostate cancer patients, spouses, adult family members and friends. First Thursday of each month, 7–8:30 p.m., MECC Lobby.
Support for People with Head and Neck Cancer(SPOHNC)
For all head and neck and oral cancer survivors. First Friday of each month, 3–4 p.m.,
MECC Lower Level Conference Room. |
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Helping You Live With,
Through and Beyond Cancer
Thanks to Methodist Hospital Foundation and a generous gift from the Harper Family Foundation, Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center offers Harper’s Hope, a comprehensive cancer survivorship program to improve quality of life for patients, their family members and friends.
Because quality of life means more than medical treatment, Harper’s
Hope provides a full menu of supportive services that can be customized
for each cancer survivor, regardless of which medical facility in the area provides treatment.
Harper’s Hope services include:
- Social Services: Help from an oncology social worker to access community resources, including financial assistance, transportation, support groups and other services.
- Counseling/Behavioral Health: Counseling, stress management, relaxation techniques, education and help with spirituality.
- Nutrition Services: Nutritional evaluation, herbal education and drug interaction review.
- Physical Wellness: Physical, occupational and speech therapy;
exercise programs and lymphedema program.
- Cancer Prevention & Hereditary Cancer Risk Program: Risk assessment, genetic testing, prevention trials, community cancer screenings and smoking cessation programs.
Harper’s Hope is available to all survivors — newly diagnosed and
longtime. Initial use of all services is free of charge, and no one will
be denied access to Harper’s Hope because of an inability to pay.
One-hour orientation sessions for patients, friends and family
members are held in the lower level conference room of the Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11 a.m.
and Tuesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Reservations are not required.
For more information, call (402) 354-5890 or visit www.bestcare.org. |
Gamma Knife
The Most Trusted for Radiosurgery
Methodist Estabrook Cancer Center is home to the metro area’s only Elekta Leksell Gamma Knife®, the pinnacle of performance for non-invasive stereotactic radiosurgery. More than 2,000 peer-reviewed papers rate the Gamma Knife as the most trusted for accuracy and effectiveness.
Compare the features of Gamma Knife treatment with those of Novalis:
- One-dose treatment: A high degree of precision allows a single dose, reducing the chance of damage to surrounding healthy tissue.
- Requires no special measures for small targets.
- Superior technology ensures accuracy with a single treatment.
- Robotic Automatic Positioning System™ tracks patient position and repositions patient without intervention
- Results documented back to 1968.
- Multi-step procedure: Up to 30 sessions are required.
- Accuracy dependent on multiple measurement and adjustments.
- Difficulty in delivery precision.
- Little published literature on efficacy despite eight years of clinical use.
For more information about the Methodist Gamma Knife Center,
visit www.bestcare.org or call (402) 354-4590 or (800) 305-1097.
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