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Role of Cancer Support Groups

Cancer support groups have many benefits. It helps the patients learn more about cancer, and cope with the disease and the resultant stress in a better way thereby helping them to find a new focus in life. These groups focus on family concerns such as role changes, relationship changes, financial worries, and ways to support the person who has cancer. Therefore, the primary reason people join a support group is to talk openly about their feelings and to gain support to deal with practical problems such as the side effects of the treatment, mental anxiety in the patient and family members and various other issues that they have to deal with.

Survivors, who sometimes are part of the support group, often express the need to understand what having had cancer means to them and many find that cancer has added a new perspective to their lives. 

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