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Patient and Family Support Services
A multi disciplinary team of professionals working collaboratively to help meet the social, emotional, nutritional, informational, psychological, spiritual, rehabilitation and practical needs of those affected by cancer and their families throughout the diagnostic, treatment and/or follow-up phases of cancer care. It encompass issues of prevention, survivorship, recurrence, palliative care and bereavement. PFSS provides leadership in patient and family supportive care programs and services, research and education. It includes Psychosocial Oncology (including Spiritual Care), Nutrition Services, Rehab Services (Speech Language Pathology), Breast Cancer Centre of Hope, Patient and Family Resource Centre and Guardian Angel Caring Room. |