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Diagnosis – It can’t be true!

Everyone has their own way of dealing with a cancer diagnosis. Very often it causes a crisis.

Peer support

Voit saada vertaistukea sekä kahden kesken tukihenkilön kanssa, että vertaisryhmässä. Vertaistukea on tarjolla sekä kasvokkain että etänä.

Courses

Syöpäjärjestöt tarjoaa paljon erilaisia kursseja, joilla tuetaan kuntoutumistasi.

Cancer types

Cancer is not a unitary disease but a large group of diseases that include many different cancers. Their causes, symptoms and forms of treatment differ from one another.

Advice Services

You can chat with a specialist cancer nurse – or call or send a message. The counseling service of cancer organizations is intended for you who are affected by cancer.

Facts about cancer

One in three people in Finland will develop cancer at some point during their lifetime. Every year, about 30 000 people are diagnosed with cancer. But two thirds of them recover from the disease. These pages contain basic information about how cancer develops, cancer research, and different cancers and their symptoms.

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Cancer Society of Finland

Cancer organizations maintain several sites intended for different target groups

National patient organizations

Reactions are part of adaptation

Having cancer can affect your sexuality in many ways

How should you tell them at work that you have cancer?

It is best not to delay applying for benefits, as many may have deadlines

When you have cancer, exercise is important in terms of your wellbeing and recovery

Cancer affects a person’s diet and eating habits in many ways

There is no completely clear-cut definition of cancer

Cancer treatments are being continually developed

The situation of each cancer patient is unique

Cancer is not inherited

Health services must be available equitably

Living with chronic cancer

The illness affects the quality of both your lives

The death of a loved one and the ensuing grief is a long process with many stages

Once your treatments are over, your recovery from cancer is often just beginning

How to make going back to work succeed?

Follow-up is needed to detect adverse effects of treatment and recurrence of the cancer

Do you want to discuss cancer or its treatment?

Peer support often makes things easier for patients and their loved ones

Courses are organised mainly in Finnish

Are you wondering about rehabilitation?

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