MedWest-Harris and MedWest-Swain offering free Life’s Path cancer support groups in October

9/6/2012

MedWest-Harris and MedWest-Swain offering free Life’s Path cancer support groups in October

Sylva and Bryson City, N.C. – MedWest-Harris and MedWest-Swain are offering the following free Life’s Path cancer support groups in October: 

•The General Cancer Support Group for men and women dealing with any cancer diagnosis will meet from 5 to 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4 in the Harris Medical Park conference room at 98 Doctors Dr. in Sylva. The group, which also welcomes caregivers, meets the first Thursday of every month. 

•The Look Good, Feel Better Support Group will meet from 10 a.m. to noon, Monday, Oct. 1 in the Harris Medical Park conference room at 98 Doctors Dr. in Sylva. Trained cosmetologists will facilitate the workshop and teach women with cancer how to understand and care for changes in skin and hair that may occur during treatment. 

•The Man to Man Support Group for prostate cancer patients and survivors will meet from 7 to 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 8 in the Harris Medical Park conference room at 98 Doctors Dr. in Sylva. The group meets the second Monday of each month. Hugh Moon and Joe Hurt, MD are co-chairmen of the American Cancer Society support group. 

•The two WNC Breast Cancer Support Groups will meet in October. One group, which meets the second Tuesday of every month, will meet from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the private dining room next to the cafeteria at MedWest-Swain in Bryson City. The other group, which meets the fourth Tuesday of every month in the Harris Medical Park conference room at 98 Doctors Dr. in Sylva, will meet from 7 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 23.

For information about any of these groups, call registered nurse Mary E. Mahon at (828) 631-8100. 

These Life’s Path Support Groups are part of MedWest’s comprehensive cancer treatment services, which include state-of-the-art diagnostic technology and advanced radiation therapy services at Mountain Regional Cancer Center in Sylva. 

MedWest’s cancer services team includes board-certified general surgeons, radiologists, oncologists, pathologists, healthcare professionals specializing in radiation therapy and nurse navigators who help patients step-by-step throughout the cancer treatment process.