Cancer Care
Southern Health-Santé Sud offers several programs and resources to support your cancer journey. Cancer Navigation Services connects you with a regional team of compassionate health care professionals with specialized training in cancer care and navigation. These professionals will help you make informed decisions while reducing your stress and anxiety. Ask your health care provider about Cancer Navigation Services or learn more about the many resources listed below.
Regional Health Centres offering in-person Cancer Care Services:
Bethesda Regional Health Centre
Boundary Trails Health Centre
Portage District General Hospital
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Sessions
These eight-week sessions are free of charge to cancer patients and family members of cancer patients. During the program, you will learn and practice skills that will help you develop focus and awareness of your experience. These skills are developed through practice in class and at home, examples include:
- stress management, focus and concentration
- ability to cope more effectively
- healthy response versus impulsive reactivity
- awareness of thoughts, feelings and physical sensations
- awareness of habitual thinking patterns
- ability to relax
Evidence suggests that these sessions can help manage your symptoms of cancer and the side effects of treatment.
Sessions are offered by Cancer Navigation Services.
For more information on Cancer Care Services and the Community Cancer Program Network, please call your closest centre or 1-855-623-1533 or visit CancerCare Manitoba.