Support Services
We have access to a number of support services available. Please ask a member of your treatment team if you would like further information about support services.
CANCER SOCIETY
The Kathleen Kilgour Centre has a close relationship with the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society which offers:
- Information about cancer and cancer treatment
- Support groups
- Counselling grants
- Support programmes such as "Living Well" and exercise programmes
- Therapeutic massage
- Library
- Access to Cancer Society liaison nurses who can provide
- home-based support for family/whanau
- assessment and support to manage the side effects of treatment
- a link to other health care professionals and community services
- advocacy to help resolve any difficulties or anxieties about treatment
SUPPORT SERVICES WEBSITES
- NZ Breast Cancer Foundation
- Look Good Feel Better
- Sweet Louise
- Breast Cancer Support
- Prostate Cancer Foundation
- Hospice New Zealand