Patient Support Group gathering momentum

Frimley Support Group

Guildford Group to ‘go live’ in Feb 2005.

As expected, our Patient Support Group is proving to be a vital and growing element of our Charity. Principally centred in Frimley but soon to be operational in Guildford, the Group now holds regular meetings with patients and their families who are touched by prostate cancer.

One of the key reasons why the Group’s work is appreciated so much is that patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer are faced with such a wide variety of choices concerning their treatment. It can be a very lonely time and to be able to talk to fellow sufferers who have been confronted with exactly the same dilemma is extremely valuable and reassuring. Meetings are open to wives, friends and families and cover a wide variety of topics including treatment options, possible side effects and self-help suggestions. All members of the Prostate Project Support Group are prostate cancer sufferers themselves with the exception of Cassia Morris whose husband was diagnosed with the disease in 2002.

A series of meetings with invited speakers are planned for 2005 at Frimley Park Hospital and the Royal Surrey County Hospital. Dates will be published in the next issue of this Newsletter.

If you would like to register for any of our meetings next year or would just like more information about the Group and its work, please contact either Peter Smale on 01252 714807 or Cassia Morris on 01483 526401.

Please remember that all our work is voluntary and we constantly need new funds, so any donations you are able to make will be warmly welcomed.