Tag: support services

Christmas is a hard time for people with a cancer diagnosis. Here are some strategies to make Christmas easier if you’re affected by cancer.

COVID-19 continues to be challenging for everyone, but we are working hard to support those affected by cancer.

Cancer support group meeting

Connecting with individuals and groups can make a difference to your quality of life and emotional wellbeing.

Elissa has brain cancer and is a part of the Cancer Council’s brain cancer telephone support group. Read her story.

Our accommodation services helped one cancer patient continue her breast cancer patient during the 2019 bushfires.

Find out what information and support services are available to you over the festive period.

Despite the impact of COVID-19, we have continued delivering many of our information and support services.

For 10 years, AMP financial advisers have provided pro bono services to cancer patients and their families.

In 1996, Nurse and continence advisor Barbara McFadyen ran an advertisement in the local newspaper classifieds to seek support in establishing a support group in the area. She was responding to a need for men and their families who were negotiating their respective prostate cancer journeys. The response was forthcoming from a man who was undergoing […]

To Garth Howard, volunteering as a Transport to Treatment driver is about so much more than simply getting cancer patients to treatment. The Coffs Harbour local says it’s also an opportunity to support people when they are going through some of the most physically and emotionally stressful times of their lives, lending a helping hand […]