Wednesday, 4 February 2015 marks World Cancer Day and CANSA is emphasising that cancer is “not beyond us” in terms of cancer control and reducing the impact of the disease. Taking place under the tagline ‘Not beyond us’, World Cancer Day focusses on taking a positive and proactive approach to the fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions do exist regarding cancer care and early detection and that they are within reach. http://www.cansa.org.za/maximising-the-quality-of-life-this-world-cancer-day-4-feb-2015/

2. World Cancer Day 2015
Quality of Life - It’s not beyond us
A truly global event taking place
every year on 4 February, World Cancer Day
unites the world’s population
in the fight against cancer

3. Why World Cancer Day is important
• Global cancer epidemic is huge and set to rise - 8.2 million
people die from cancer world wide annually.
• WCD helps us to spread the word and raise the profile of
cancer

4. Taking place under the tagline
‘Not beyond us’, World Cancer Day focusses on
taking a positive and proactive approach to the
fight against cancer, highlighting that solutions
do exist regarding cancer care and early
detection and that they are within reach.

5. Cancer is not beyond us in terms of cancer
control and reducing the impact of the disease.
Understanding and responding to the full
impact of cancer on emotional, mental and
physical wellbeing - will maximise the quality of
life for patients, their families and caregivers

6. Our
CANSA Care Centres
country-wide offer
comprehensive
care and support
programmes for all
those affected by
cancer to find the
best care solution
and advise on
managing side
effects of treatment,
be it physical,
emotional and/or
spiritual.

7. For each person diagnosed, cancer is a unique
experience. No two people will travel the same
journey during and after cancer treatment.
How people cope when diagnosed, during
or after treatment (or even when in remission),
is different for each individual.
One common thread in all people with cancer is
the need for a good support system

8. Support Groups
• Our active support groups connect
patients, long-term survivors and
their loved ones with others who
have 'been there' for insight, moral
support and understanding, hope
and inspiration, and bereavement
support when needed

9. Support Groups
Our support groups include:
• ‘Hoping is Coping’
• ‘Sharing and Caring’ groups
• Cancer specific groups (such as
prostate cancer support group)
• Weekly visits to oncology centres
• Tough Living with Cancer (TLC)
groups (support to children, teens and
families affected by cancer)

10. For many people facing a cancer
diagnosis, it’s the toughest fight
of their lives. Maintaining social
support networks and talking
about cancer is important for
both the person living with
cancer and their caregiver.
Whether you are a newly diagnosed
person with cancer, a person who
has had cancer before, or the
caregiver or loved one of someone
with cancer, you might experience
some form of emotional stress as
part of the natural human response.

11. Individual Counselling
Individual counselling is a very effective
way to unload some of that stress in a
safe and supportive environment.
Our experienced counsellors can help
you enormously in dealing with your
feelings, aspirations and fears.
Counselling is available for those with
cancer, as well as their loved ones
Your donation of
R50 could pay for one
individual counselling
session

12. Medical Loan
Equipment
• Care Homes rent out medical
equipment to cancer patients, such
as wheelchairs, commodes or egg-
shell mattresses, after surgery or
during treatment
• Cancer treatment often results in
hair loss. CANSA has many wigs to
be rented or purchased

13. Marie Claire Kindest Cut Campaign
• CANSA partners with Marie Claire and challenges readers to join in the
Kindest Cut Campaign
• Readers are challenged to donate their hair or make an online donation
to CANSA in order to supply wigs to our CANSA Care Centres for cancer
patients – please visit http://www.cansa.org.za/marie-claire-kindest-cut-
campaign/
How to make Hair donations:
• Hair should be 25cm or longer
• Hair has to be clean and dry
• When cutting the hair, please bind both ends with an elastic band and
place in a zip-lock bag
• To find out where to send the hair and make a donation,
visit http://www.cansa.org.za/marie-claire-kindest-cut-campaign/

14. CANSA Care Homes
We provide home-from-home
accommodation to patients undergoing
cancer treatment far from home
Patients at our many CANSA Care
Homes around the country stay for an
average of six weeks and receive meals
and transport to and from treatment
centres

15. In the past year,
CANSA...
• Welcomed 3 562 individual patients
to our 12 CANSA Care Homes where
they were served a total of 320 580
meals (average of a 6-week stay per
patient)
• Facilitated Home Based Care for
13 397 patients
• A total of 18 335 paediatric cancer
patients, siblings, family members
and their loved ones received CANSA
TLC care and support
Your donation of R1 300
could help us provide one
nights’ lodging, food and
transport to a cancer survivor
undergoing treatment far
from home

16. CANSA Care Facility
Very ill cancer (and other) patients
receive excellent nursing care at our
8-bed Theunis Fichardt Hospitium in
Polokwane

17. CANSA Support for
children, teens &
families
We provide free lodging for
parents/guardians, whose children are
undergoing cancer treatment, at our
CANSA TLC Lodge in Pretoria, TLC
Paediatric Oncology Ward in Polokwane
& CANSA TLC Support Room in Durban
+ CANSA TLC Support Rooms in
Kimberley and Port Elizabeth

18. For more info and pictures, visit…
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-irma-bruschi-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tygerberg-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-eikehof-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-strelitzia-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-mkhuhla-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-katleho-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-olea-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-james-kingston-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tlc-paediatric-ward/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-limpopo-care-home-cansa-theunis-fichardt-
hospitium/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tlc-nicus-lodge/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-tipuana-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-lukholweni-care-home/
• http://www.cansa.org.za/cansa-keurboom-care-home/

19. Specialist care offered at some of our
CANSA Care Centres involves treatment of
complications resulting from cancer
treatment - specifically lymphoedema,
stoma and treatment of acute and chronic
hard-to-heal wounds
CANSA also offers breast prostheses,
expertly fitted by trained CANSA staff and
volunteers are also sold at some Care
Centres, which also includes counselling
and support during this process
Please visit our website to confirm if your
CANSA Care Centre offers this service.
www.cansa.org.za

20. Acute and Chronic
Wound Care
• The body heals wounds through a
natural process. At times, however,
some wounds - big and small - don’t
heal the way they should
• At some of our CANSA Care Centres,
we give advice and offer specialist
wound care

21. Stoma Care
• We offer pre- and post-operative
counselling and actual positioning of
the stoma
• Incontinence advice and coping
skills are given to patients and
families
• We also offer the sale of cost
effective stoma products

22. CancerCare Coping Kit
• We know how scary and stressful a cancer
diagnosis can be. That’s why our CancerCare
Coping Kit (2 audio CDs) is great - it provides
practical advice to people newly diagnosed with
cancer as well as their loved ones and caregivers
to ease the cancer journey and to take control
by making informed choices
• Now also available in booklet form – contact
your CANSA Care Centres countrywide, or
download from our website.
Your donation of
R120 could help us
produce a CancerCare
Coping Kit for a cancer
survivor

23. CANSA supports survivors online
http://www.isurvivor.org.za
A free, e-mail based programme written by
a cancer survivor to help other survivors
cope better. It’s a manageable guide with
all the helpful resources available such as
health information, where the nearest
CANSA Care Centre is, how to lead a
balanced lifestyle, how to reduce the risk
of recurrence of cancer and where to find
counselling and support

24. CANSA supports survivors online
• Please log on to our CANSA national Facebook page:
CANSA The Cancer Association of South Africa
• If you are a survivor, please visit our Facebook group in support of cancer
survivors:
Champions of Hope - CANSA Survivors
• Also take a look at our CANSA Twitter page:
@CANSA - http://twitter.com/cansa
• Follow us on Instagram:
www.instagram.com/CancerAssociationOfSouthAfrica
• Join us on Pinterest:
http://pinterest.com/cansa/
• View our videos on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/can1000sa

25. In the past year, CANSA...

26. CANSA Care Centre teams provide early
detection screening programmes:
• to help reduce the cancer risk enable more effective
treatment and a better chance of recovery
• Our nine Mobile Health Clinics travel to remote
areas to provide screening and early detection
programmes

27. Community-based
cancer care programmes
• Communities far from CANSA Care
Centres will continue to benefit
from our existing community-based
cancer care programmes

28. This includes:
• Regular cancer screening clinics,
reaching as many people as possible
and assisting to refer those
diagnosed with cancer and who
need treatment
• We also offer training of home-
based carers in communities
Community-based
cancer care programmes

29. • Mobile Health Clinics travel to
remote areas throughout South
Africa to reach people who would
otherwise not have access to
screening
Community-based
cancer care programmes
Your donation of
R4 500 could help keep
our Mobile Health Units
going for a day

30. SureTouch - breast cancer
screening
FotoFinder - Mole mapping
dermoscope devices for detecting
skin cancer
• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA)
- finger-prick blood test to help
detect prostate abnormalities
• Pap smears - early diagnosis of
cervical cancer screening
• Lifestyle Risk assessments – quick
survey to assess your possible risk of
developing cancer

31. Help CANSA
expand its cancer
screening
programmes,
please consider
making a donation
at any of our
CANSA Care
Centres and Clinics
country-wide

32. Your donation of
R60 will help pay for one
PSA finger prick test for
one man
Your donation of
R120 will help fund one
SureTouch breast
examination for one
woman
Your donation of
R100 will help fund one
FotoFinder mole analysis
for one person
Your R60 donation
will help fund the LBC
consumables for one Pap
smear test

33. Health awareness campaigns
We aim to promote health and reducing the cancer risk
– Balanced Lifestyle
– SunSmart
– Anti-tobacco
– Women’s & Men’s Health - as well as Children & Youth health
– Environment - avoiding carcinogens (cancer-causing agents)
As well as active participation in Wellness days

34. Fact Sheets
and Position Statements
Over 100 cancer fact sheets
are available on www.cansa.org.za to help
educate & reduce the cancer risk

35. In the past year, CANSA...

36. Dedicated CANSA
Call Centre
Friendly and informed staff at our toll-
free call centre provide compassionate
customer service, awareness materials,
information and referrals for anything
related to cancer support and care. We
are here to answer your questions or
concerns
Get in touch with us:
Call us toll-free on 0800 22 66 22

37. In the past year, the CANSA Call Centre...
Responded to questions and requests from an average of 12 000 people per year
• Response from a cancer survivor via info e-mail:
‘’Many, many thanks for the time and trouble you have taken to investigate and reply.
It is really appreciated and I am sure that you will appreciate that I will really do anything to
try and prolong whatever life I have left’’.
Another response from a caller whose father was diagnosed:
‘’Thank you so much for replying to my e-mail, best news I have heard
this month’’.
Get in touch with us:
Call us toll-free on 0800 22 66 22
Email info@cansa.org.za or
visit us at www.cansa.org.za
Your donation of R200
could help man the
CANSA Call Centre for 30
minutes

38. CANSA’s National Awards
• CANSA was recently awarded
2014 South Africa’s Most
Trusted Brand in the Charity
category, according to a
Reader’s Digest survey.
• Based on sound governance,
we have been able to be a
leader in cancer control for
over 80 years.
• CANSA is a registered non-
profit organisation
(000-524 NPO) and B-BBEE
Level 4 Contributor.

39. In the past year, CANSA...
Your donation of R300
could help us print 600
awareness pamphlets

40. Watch our videos
Arch Bishop Tutu has a message for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTeis0HRXXk&feature=c4-
overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g
CANSA Care and Support:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swNltOAZSwE&feature=c4-
overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g
CANSA Screening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hfq5z3MtSz4&feature=c4-
overview&list=UUsAPiRjevTiGiAvUV1WU77g

41. “Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence;
it pushes one to live” - Marcia Smith

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44. Disclaimer:
Whilst the Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) has taken every precaution in
compiling this presentation, neither it, nor any contributor(s) to this presentation can be
held responsible for any action (or the lack thereof) taken by any person or organisation
wherever they shall be based, as a result, direct or otherwise, of information contained in,
or accessed through, this presentation.