Your patient's care will be managed by their cancer centre team during treatment. Below, please find resources to help support your patient during this part of their cancer journey.
Generally, primary care providers are asked to continue managing their patient's non-cancer related concerns and conditions. Communication with the cancer centre team may be needed if the patient's cancer and its treatment impact their non-cancer related conditions.
If your patient has an advanced cancer, requires palliative care (which aims to improve the quality of life for patients and families facing the problems associated with a life-limiting and/or life-threatening illness), or end-of-life care, you can find more information about how to support their specific concerns on Advanced Cancer, Palliative & End-of-Life Care.
Summaries and guidelines for side effects and concerns during treatment can be found on AHS Guideline Resource Unit (GURU), under Symptom Management.
If your patient is experiencing a treatment-related emergency, site-specific checkpoint inhibitor and systemic treatment emergency contact cards (including criteria to define an emergency) and triage letters for patients to give to emergency department staff may be found on Systemic Treatment.
Patient Navigators are available to help patients at every stage of the cancer journey. Primary Care Providers can refer patients, or patients can self-refer.
Information on Psychosocial Oncology (counselling, spiritual care, support groups and programs) and Rehabilitation Oncology may be found on Supportive Care and Living Well.
If you have questions or suggestions about cancer patient education resources, or would like to request materials, please contact the Cancer Patient Education team at cancer.patiented@ahs.ca.
