Counseling services for cancer patients

Diagnosis: Cancer... And now what do we do?

The feelings that are created in the patient and his relatives as soon as the diagnosis "CANCER" is made are exhausting. Once the suspicion becomes certain or, even worse, when the diagnosis "falls like lightning in the air", most people collapse. This is largely because while everyone knows it's a malignant disease, few know the progress that has been made and that can change the bad prognosis, and even fewer know how to move into the maze of information (where to start, in who to contact and what to choose from the available media, in what order, etc.).

The great specialization in medicine has many advantages. The main thing is that the experts know their subject very well, in great depth. But what about the margins of their knowledge, that is, the areas that their own knowledge does not cover, because the "territory" of another specialist has begun?

• Which specialist should precede?
• By what medical procedure?
• Why do some specialists not recommend actions that they themselves do not offer, while these may change the patient's data?
• Some medical procedures cost more than others. If the family's finances are tight, what options will be most effective for the patient?
• Does cannabis have anything to offer in this case? In what legal context? Who knows how to grant it?
• What is hyperthermia? Oncothermia? Why didn't the oncologist recommend it?
• What are additional treatments? Is it the same as the alternatives?
• Do alternative approaches offer anything?
• How will the patient be protected from charlatans?

All of the above and much more is the subject of counseling services for sufferers and their families.