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Patient and Family Support Services and Community Outreach

Community Outreach
Community Outreach is committed to developing and coordinating information, programming, and special events aimed at promoting cancer awareness among patients and their families, health professionals and the community. Read more.

Patient and Family Support Services
Quality cancer care means healing the whole person, not just the disease.

That's why the Cancer Center offers Patient and Family Support Services to ease the stress and solitude of serious illness. These various programs assist those patients who need special help controlling symptoms or side effects. For families with a history of cancer, highly trained genetic counselors help sort fact from fiction. And for all families facing a new diagnosis, our Patient Education Resource Center can help patients understand their condition, learn about their options and feel more comfortable discussing this often intimidating disease.

Our Patient Support Services Program, one of the most comprehensive programs of its kind in the nation, currently offers more than 30 different services, including:

• Child & Family Life Program
• Complementary Therapies
• Fertility Counseling and Gamete Cryopreservation
• Grief and Loss Program
• Patient Education Resource Cente
• Peer Counseling
• Seminars and Educational Programs
• Skills Lab
• Support Groups

Visit the Patient and Family Services web pages to learn more.

In addition, our Cancer AnswerLine provides callers with personalized information on the entire spectrum of cancer issues - from warning signs and detection tests to clinical trials and physician referrals. The nurses who staff the service draw on their vast experience in providing compassionate cancer care to assist in a number of areas, including help navigating the complexities of the health-care system and contact information for support groups and community resources.

We know that coming to a new medical facility sometimes seems daunting; that's why all patients and visitors at the Comprehensive Cancer Center are welcomed by M-Greeters, special volunteers who take time to greet and escort guests. U-M Health System can feel like a big place, but with M-Greeters, patients have personal guides to ensure that the focus is on their own well-being, not the logistics of care.

From the first phone call to the first visit and throughout a patient's relationship with the U-M Cancer Center, care and support are always first priorities.

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University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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