Complementing your NHS treatments

The Cancer Support Centre’s complementary therapies are designed to work alongside any hospital procedures, treatments and interventions that you may be receiving. Ultimately, our aim is to help you to feel as well as you can before, during and after these treatments.

There is significant evidence to suggest that exercise, nutrition, relaxation and general wellbeing will ultimately optimise a person’s resilience to the side effects of the conventional procedures and treatments, with positive impacts on both recovery times and outcomes.

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• We provides a place where clients can talk openly about their worries, anxieties and fears.
• We support our clients psychologically, allowing them to come to terms with what is happening to them, and physically, so that they understand the changes that any surgery and hospital treatments can have on their body.
• We support our clients wider support network, allowing family and friends to come to terms with what is happening to their loved one, and helping them to support their loved one in the best way that they can.
• We offer techniques to our clients, so that they can use them when they are feeling anxious, stressed, in pain, nauseous, fatigued or just plain angry!
• We can help to alleviate some of the side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy through our one-to-one therapeutic sessions and complementary therapies.
• We help our clients with any feelings of isolation and loneliness, especially when someone is facing cancer alone, through our group and drop-in sessions, or at our friendly on-site café.

Can it really make a difference?

The Cancer Support Centre measures the difference we make to our clients though a recognised reporting system called MYCaW (Measure Yourself Concerns and Wellbeing).

Our clients identify two things which are affecting them the most and score them. These issues and their scores are revisited at regular intervals and re-rated, with the aim of seeing a significant improvement in their concerns and scoring.  

Independent analysis has established that our clients usually have a 40% improvement in their first concern, a 28% improvement for their second concern, and a 45% increase in their general emotional wellbeing. The significance of these increases is really positive, given that some of our clients will be feeling very unwell, due to ongoing chemo or radiotherapy treatments.