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Aathira Ayyappan
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From Diagnosis To Recovery: How A Cancer Coach Can Help You Every Step Of The Way
From Diagnosis To Recovery: How A Cancer Coach Can Help You Every Step Of The Way
A cancer coach is your advocate, your cheerleader, and your partner in the fight against cancer. They empower you to take control of your health and wellbeing, and help you live your best life, despite the challenges of cancer.
A cancer coach is your advocate, your cheerleader, and your partner in the fight against cancer. They empower you to take control of your health and wellbeing, and help you live your best life, despite the challenges of cancer.
Published on: 13 February, 2023
Published on: 13 February, 2023
Right from when they are diagnosed to when they undergo chemotherapy/radiotherapy sessions, cancer patients go through a lot – both physically and mentally. The concerns can range from shock over their predicament, denial, and the fear of possibly facing death in addition to stress over mounting treatment costs.
Cancer patients and their families often find themselves stuck in a loop of sadness and uncertainty, where positivity and the drive to overcome are seldom found. Cancer patients often get exhausted worrying about their prognosis, and even if they undergo treatment promptly, their decaying mental state may not allow them to be healed holistically. That is, a cancer patient is as emotionally vulnerable as they are physically vulnerable.
It is in this scenario that the services of a cancer coach become pertinent in the recovery of cancer patients. While the concept is new to India, it has shown promise in the case of countries in the West.
Who is a cancer coach?
A cancer coach acts as a guide, a friend and a partner in your recovery from cancer. A cancer coach helps the cancer patient and their family by providing counselling sessions, nutrition plans, financial advice, and in many cases can act as a bridge between them and the oncologist.
A cancer coach can help the patient navigate the ABCs of cancer treatment – from sorting financial options to getting different medical opinions, cost of those opinions, finding the most cost-effective solution for every problem that arises due to the disease, etc. can be handled by a cancer coach with the guidance of an expert oncologist.
Points to note:
- A cancer coach does not provide an alternate form of treatment to the regimen followed by the cancer patient. Cancer coaching is more of a psycho-social tool that helps the cancer patient and their family tide over difficult times.
- A cancer coach is kind and empathetic, and can lend an ear to your everyday worries.
- A cancer coach equips the cancer patient with skills to deal with obstacles that the disease may present on an everyday basis.
- A cancer coach guides a cancer patient towards making the right choices with respect to choice of hospital, oncologist, health plan, post-treatment care and follow-up regimen.
- A cancer coach helps the cancer patient with both short-term and long-term goals, and is a beacon of non-judgmental support
Cancer coaches can especially help cancer patients in India because:
- Due to the high volume of cases in Indian hospitals, doctors and medical professional may not be able to deal with every concern that a cancer patient may have, and may not be able to effectively allay their fears/doubts regarding their foreseeable future while undergoing treatment. A cancer coach can step in and fill this gap, thus helping the patient mentally and physically prepare themselves for what lies ahead.
- Due to cultural and social stigma, Indian families often hesitate to tell their near and dear ones about a family member’s cancer diagnosis, and they end up isolating themselves from society. A cancer coach can offer their help and guidance discreetly, and make sure that the cancer patient and their family is not without support.
Right from when they are diagnosed to when they undergo chemotherapy/radiotherapy sessions, cancer patients go through a lot – both physically and mentally. The concerns can range from shock over their predicament, denial, and the fear of possibly facing death in addition to stress over mounting treatment costs.
Cancer patients and their families often find themselves stuck in a loop of sadness and uncertainty, where positivity and the drive to overcome are seldom found. Cancer patients often get exhausted worrying about their prognosis, and even if they undergo treatment promptly, their decaying mental state may not allow them to be healed holistically. That is, a cancer patient is as emotionally vulnerable as they are physically vulnerable.
It is in this scenario that the services of a cancer coach become pertinent in the recovery of cancer patients. While the concept is new to India, it has shown promise in the case of countries in the West.
Who is a cancer coach?
A cancer coach acts as a guide, a friend and a partner in your recovery from cancer. A cancer coach helps the cancer patient and their family by providing counselling sessions, nutrition plans, financial advice, and in many cases can act as a bridge between them and the oncologist.
A cancer coach can help the patient navigate the ABCs of cancer treatment – from sorting financial options to getting different medical opinions, cost of those opinions, finding the most cost-effective solution for every problem that arises due to the disease, etc. can be handled by a cancer coach with the guidance of an expert oncologist.
Points to note:
- A cancer coach does not provide an alternate form of treatment to the regimen followed by the cancer patient. Cancer coaching is more of a psycho-social tool that helps the cancer patient and their family tide over difficult times.
- A cancer coach is kind and empathetic, and can lend an ear to your everyday worries.
- A cancer coach equips the cancer patient with skills to deal with obstacles that the disease may present on an everyday basis.
- A cancer coach guides a cancer patient towards making the right choices with respect to choice of hospital, oncologist, health plan, post-treatment care and follow-up regimen.
- A cancer coach helps the cancer patient with both short-term and long-term goals, and is a beacon of non-judgmental support
Cancer coaches can especially help cancer patients in India because:
- Due to the high volume of cases in Indian hospitals, doctors and medical professional may not be able to deal with every concern that a cancer patient may have, and may not be able to effectively allay their fears/doubts regarding their foreseeable future while undergoing treatment. A cancer coach can step in and fill this gap, thus helping the patient mentally and physically prepare themselves for what lies ahead.
- Due to cultural and social stigma, Indian families often hesitate to tell their near and dear ones about a family member’s cancer diagnosis, and they end up isolating themselves from society. A cancer coach can offer their help and guidance discreetly, and make sure that the cancer patient and their family is not without support.
In times of need, support means everything, and with Milaap, you need not look any further. Milaap enables you to set up a fundraiser for any medical emergency within minutes, and you can easily raise funds for treatment expenses.
Do you know someone who could benefit from fundraising? Simply refer them to us and we’ll be happy to lend a hand.
Visit www.milaap.org or call us on +91 9916174848 to get started now.
For more information, write to us at cx@milaap.org.
In times of need, support means everything, and with Milaap, you need not look any further. Milaap enables you to set up a fundraiser for any medical emergency within minutes, and you can easily raise funds for treatment expenses.
Do you know someone who could benefit from fundraising? Simply refer them to us and we’ll be happy to lend a hand.
Visit www.milaap.org or call us on +91 9916174848 to get started now.
For more information, write to us at cx@milaap.org.
Written by:
Aathira Ayyappan