“I’m so glad we can guide our callers to CanSurround,” says Janet Teixeira, Executive Director of Cancer Care Connection. “It provides supportive resources for people affected by cancer at the click of a button, any time of the day or night, no matter where you are.”
Cancer Care Connection is an organization whose Oncology Social Workers prioritize emotional and mental health support for cancer patients and provide practical guidance to help them achieve their best possible outcome. Now, CanSurround is an integral part of Cancer Care Connections services, reducing distress and further enhancing emotional wellness through resources and activities which inspire, inform, and help cancer patients on every step of their journey.
One breast cancer survivor and CanSurround user shared that the self-guided platform helped her “regain [her] emotional equilibrium because it normalizes the emotional challenges of cancer, validates your feelings, and gives me a place to sit and be with whatever I’m feeling.”
As a former healthcare professional, she recognizes that cancer treatment continues to be focused on traditional medicine. “The emotional piece of cancer is still the most neglected and so [CanSurround] really fills that void…this site has given me an infusion of encouragement when I least expect it yet when I need it most.”
As a cancer survivor, she explained how, now, she sometimes values the site even more than during the ups and downs of her active illness.
“To most everyone else, I’m better—it’s over. But you never really get over cancer. . . so, while a lot of people tune out of your cancer journey, CanSurround is still tuning in.”