CANCER ASSOCIATION OF ANDERSON

Emotional support: emotional support begins as patients enter our comforting, uplifting "home- and beautifully landscaped grounds where patients, caregivers and their families can come for hope and encouragment both individually and in a group. Caa utilizes and incorporates supportive "integrative" programs/complementary therapies that uplift and enhance the patient's ability to fight cancer and which may help conventional cancer treatments work more effectively. Aromatherapy, mindfullness, yoga and other strength/stretching exercises, music therapy, juicing and healthy nutrition classes, grief support, art and pet therapies are just a few of the current caa offerings to patients. Additionally, our caa staff and board have hosted and/or facilitated onsite support-groups for survivors of breast cancer, uro-genital and gastrointestinal cancers, as well as head and neck cancers.