KIDNEY CANCER CANADA SUPPORT SERVICES
- Peer support – Call or email us for confidential, one-on-one support. We match patients and caregivers with trained volunteers who share a similar cancer experience
- Monthly online Coffee-Chats for patients and caregivers
- Kidney Cancer Canada’s private Facebook community support group
- Online “Chat Room” – Kidney Cancer Canada’s discussion forum
CAREGIVER BOOKLET
This booklet was written by Karen Ross, caregiver for 10 years to her husband David. Karen is also Kidney Cancer Canada’s volunteer director of the Atlantic provinces. She hopes that caregivers will find this booklet helpful as they go through their own journey.
Caregiver BookletINFORMATION VIDEOS
- Kidney Foundation
- Canadian Cancer Society
- Wellspring (online Canada-wide)
- Cancer and work
- CancerPEP – Patient Empowerment (paid program)
- ELLICSR Kitchen
- Smart Patients (U.S.-based kidney cancer discussion forum. Treatments discussed on the forum may not apply to Canadian patients)
- CancerCare Ontario – Recommended Resources for Patients & their families
- UHN Services & Support
- Hamilton Health Sciences Centre – Patient & Family Resources
- London Health Sciences Centre – London Regional Cancer Program
- Health Sciences North – Supportive Care Program – North Eastern Ontario
- Wellspring – Greater Toronto Area, London & Region, Niagara
- Gilda’s Club
- Wellwood – Hamilton
- Hearthplace Cancer Support Centre – Oshawa
- The Ottawa Cancer Foundation
- Cancer Assistance Halton Hills
- The Ontario Caregiver
- CHU du Québec – Oncologie psychosociale et spirituelle – Québec
- CISSS de Laval – Ressources
- Quebec Cancer Foundation
- Fondation Virage – Montréal
- Hope & Cope – Montréal
- West-Island Cancer Centre
- Centre Espoir – Québec
- Organisation québécoise des personnes atteintes du cancer (OQPAC) – Québec
- Sercan – Saint-Eustache
- Nouvel envol – Candiac
- La rose des vents – Sherbrooke
- Organisme voué aux personnes atteintes de cancer (OVPAC) – Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent (Montérégie-Ouest)
- Fondation André Côté – Kamouraska, Saint-Roch-des-Aulnaies, Sainte-Louise
- Convergence action bénévole – Chaudière-Appalaches
- Cancer et vie – Thetford Mines
- Accueil Sérénité – Région de Bellechasse
- Association du cancer – Est du Québec
- Cancer Saguenay
- À fleur d’espoir – Chapais, Chibougamau
- Cancer Fermont
- Organisme de soutien aux proches aidants en oncologie du Québec (OSPAOQ)
- Relief – free virtual support groups to help you live with anxiety or depression (in French)
- Appui Proche Aidant
- Proche aidance Québec
- Employee-Caregiver Work Conciliation