Mission CanSupport’s
mission is to enable people with advanced cancer and their
families to make informed choices and decisions and to receive
appropriate physical, emotional, social and spiritual support.
Timely
information, counseling and emotional support by trained volunteers
helps callers to cope with the trauma of a cancer diagnosis
or the burden of caring for a loved one.
Cansupport
Home CareCanSupport’s
mobile teams take free palliative care to the homes of people
with terminal cancer. Patients and their families receive
the highest level of professional care combined with dignity
and compassion. A
patient’s brother says: “We can never forget…”
Cansupport
Day Care
Adults
andchildren with cancer come to our day
care centre for relaxation, recreation, hospitality and emotional
support. Their families are provided with group counselling
and support.
On February 10th, 2008, more
than two thousand people participated in the inaugural "Walk
for Life” with CanSupport to Stride Against Cancer.