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Your Treatment Journey
Your health and happiness are very important throughout the treatment process. With this in mind we have provided some details about Canadian patient support groups that bring patients together enabling them to share their experiences.
The Canadian Cancer Society has many resources for patients and their families. Cancerconnection.ca is an online community for patients to connect with each other and discuss all aspects of their cancer journey. View patients questions, concerns, support and stories on the forums and groups and consider participating in the discussion. Other important services and information the CSS provided include:
Procedure Specific Groups
Additional Education and Support
Precare – a guide to prepare and recover from medical procedures
Provincial Cancer Agencies
Featured Patient Stories
Listen to Canadian patients describe their experiences with robot assisted surgery. More patient stories can be found within the specific procedure pages located here: Robot Assisted Procedures.
Robotic Surgery Lung Removal
Wald describes his experience with lung cancer and his successful treatment with robot assisted surgery.
Aubrie's Story
Aubrie is an emergency nurse from Victoria who was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in her salivary gland that was not responsive to radiation and ended up being treated with robot assisted surgery.
Returning home after surgery in 23 hours
Jack describes his experience and his short length of stay after a robot assisted prostatectomy.
Bret Hart and his Prostate Cancer Journey
Brett Hart discusses his experience with Prostate Cancer and the care he recieved from the urology team in Calgary
Taking Robotic Surgery to the Next Level
Learn about how surgeons at St. Joe’s Healthcare in provided Linda robot assisted surgery with advanced imaging technology for her lung cancer.
Grateful Transoral robot assisted surgery patient
Jennifer describes her cutting-edge treatment and surgery at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
Social Media News Feeds
"L'intervention s'est très bien passée. Je suis très content. J'ai pu sortir de l'hôpital 24 heures après la chirurgie. Je n'avais aucune douleur" #robotchirurgical @CIUSSSE_CHUS https://bit.ly/3rAYTJw
“I was very anxious to get the surgery done and was worried my weight would be a complicating factor,” recalls Judy. “But Dr. LaRoche and all the staff made me feel so welcome and my weight was not an issue at all.”
Learn more about robot assisted surgery: https://bit.ly/3y1PZau
In collaboration with the National Kidney Foundation, we've helped create an educational video series about kidney cancer to inform on treatment options that may help enable better kidney function in the future. Explore the full video series: https://go.intuitive.com/3hTeOj2
@shellbusey had a routine check-up which revealed he had #prostatecancer. @VanProstateCtr's Dr. Larry Goldenberg guided Shell through his diagnosis and treatment options, and now 10+ years later, he is still cancer-free! #MensHealthMonth @VanProstateCtr
https://bit.ly/3gYyPDo
Over 8.5 million operations have been performed using surgical robots from @intuitivesurg. Here's how surgeons train to use them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z0oJR9S1Ps&utm_source=agorapulse
Probably the most famous robot in medicine to date is the da Vinci surgical system from 2000. Take a look at how #robotics is used healthcare today. https://bit.ly/3h5kUMW
Ontario is launching a new $30M Surgical Innovation Fund to support Ontario hospitals and provide them with the flexibility to perform more surgeries in their communities, reducing wait times and improving access to care for patients across the province.
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1000392/ontario-launching-new-30-million-surgical-innovation-fund
"With an intimate understanding of what recovery following a major surgical event meant, Margaret felt relief after learning her procedures would be performed by surgical robotics, in a minimally-invasive way with a much quicker recovery." @QEIIFoundation
https://qe2foundation.ca/our-impact/news/clearer-cancer-picture-minimally-invasive-procedures-reach-all-endometrial-cancer