Cancer Rehabilitation

What is rehabilitation of cancer patients?

Cancer rehabilitation is a supportive health care program. The goals of cancer rehabilitation are: Help you stay as active as possible and participate in family, work, and other life roles. Lessen the side effects and symptoms of cancer and its treatment. Help you stay as independent as possible. Cancer rehabilitation is care that focuses on maximizing a person's physical and emotional functioning with cancer, and can be started before, during, or after treatment. Rehabilitation has long been considered standard-of-care for someone who has had, say, a heart attack or a knee replacement, but cancer rehabilitation is a relatively new concept. This, however, not due to a lack of benefit or need.

• Category: Cancer Rehabilitation