For patients
The Psycho-Oncology Center offers a variety of activities and consultations for patients who wish to benefit. This applies from when the cancer diagnosis is made and through every stage of the treatment pathway to help minimize the negative impact of the disease and associated treatments on their daily lives and optimize their quality of life.
See the teamThree intervention options
The care and training activities can be arranged in different ways to best meet your needs.
We offer
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Group interventions for patients with metastatic cancer (secondary cancer)
The progression of cancer very often involves a chronic form of the disease, secondary treatments and side effects. The person is faced with multiple uncertainties and very difficult periods of adjustment. Adjusting psychologically, managing physical symptoms, feeling concern for close people, raising questions about medical decisions, the meaning of their life or their spirituality, often entail...
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Group interventions after treatment for haematological cancer (cancer of the blood and lymphatic system)
For most patients, cancer and cancer treatments are very emotionally challenging, during treatment but also very often after treatment. Coping with the changes brought about by the illness, at the physical, psychological and relational level, envisaging returning to work, allaying the fear of recurrence, managing the sense of sorrow, anxiety or other emotions can sometimes seem insurmountable....
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Group interventions after treatment for breast cancer
For most women, cancer and cancer treatments are very emotionally challenging, during treatment but also very often after treatment. Coping with the changes brought about by the illness, at the physical, psychological and relational level, envisaging returning to work, allaying the fear of recurrence, managing the sense of sorrow, anxiety or other emotions can sometimes seem insurmountable. These...
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“Receiving support and giving better support”
The onset of cancer and its treatments have impacts on patients, those around them (spouse, children, carers, siblings, etc.) and on their personal relationships. This often results in upheavals which affect various aspects of everyday life. The Psycho-Oncology Centre offers consultations where the patient and his or her close person can talk about their needs and consider together how best to...
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Help with stopping smoking
Quitting smoking is a major issue in terms of cancer prevention, lending support to cancer treatments or simply improved quality of life. The objective is to give smokers the means to trial a stop smoking support programme and work at remaining non-smokers with the help of various techniques.
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Parenting support
Cancer and cancer treatments can give rise to uncertainties or difficulties in terms of parenting, for both parent-patients and other parents or parent figures. When cancer is diagnosed, parents have many concerns about how to talk about it with their children. During and after the illness, they worry about the impact on their children and their well-being. The CPO offers consultations focusing on...
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Consultations
The CPO offers a broad range of psycho-medical-social services in an integrative and personalized way to address the needs associated with the many changes that cancer gives rise to in patients’ everyday lives. The CPO offers such interventions for individuals, couples or family groups. The purpose of these consultations is to prevent, manage or modulate the impact on patients’ daily lives of...
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