FAQs and Cancer Information for Patients and Caregivers in NJ, CT, and MD
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Patient and Caregiver Resources in NJ, CT, MD, and the Washington, D.C., Area
After receiving a cancer diagnosis, it’s understandable to have a lot of questions. The medical oncologists and hematologists of Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA) understand the importance of providing patients and their caregivers with the knowledge needed to help patients achieve the best health outcomes possible. Treating people with solid tumors, blood-based malignancies and benign blood disorders throughout New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and the Washington, D.C., area, the RCCA team of specialists focuses on comprehensive patient and caregiver education. This page highlights a wide array of resources, including informational guides, survivor stories, answers to frequently asked questions, a medical library, and information about clinical trials.
Patient and Caregiver Resources in NJ, CT, MD, and the Washington, D.C., Area
After receiving a cancer diagnosis, it’s understandable to have a lot of questions. The medical oncologists and hematologists of Regional Cancer Care Associates (RCCA) understand the importance of providing patients and their caregivers with the knowledge needed to help patients achieve the best health outcomes possible. Treating people with solid tumors, blood-based malignancies and benign blood disorders throughout New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and the Washington, D.C., area, the RCCA team of specialists focuses on comprehensive patient and caregiver education. This page highlights a wide array of resources, including informational guides, survivor stories, answers to frequently asked questions, a medical library, and information about clinical trials.
Patient and Caregiver Resources
Patients and their caregivers can find helpful insights from Regional Cancer Care Associates on topics such as:
Supporting a Loved One
This guide offers tips on how to help a friend or family member who is going through cancer treatment. Supporting a loved one with cancer can take many different forms, from providing companionship to helping coordinate care and accompanying the patient to medical appointments.
Caregiver Roles and Challenges
There is a wide range of caregiver roles and challenges when helping a patient with cancer. This page covers how to recognize, manage, and prevent caregiver burnout.
Caregiver Burnout: Self-Care Is Vital
Self-care practices can enhance a person’s physical, mental, and emotional health. This covers self-care strategies for caregivers of patients with cancer.
Dealing With Loss
When a friend or family member dies, loved ones go through a grieving process. This page outlines the stages of grief that many individuals experience when dealing with loss.
Coping With a Cancer Diagnosis
Receiving a cancer diagnosis can trigger a range of emotions. Employing effective strategies for coping with a cancer diagnosis can help patients accept their diagnosis and help them feel empowered during the treatment process.
Nutrition for Patients with Cancer
It is important for people going through cancer treatment to eat a balanced diet to maintain adequate nutrition. This guide to cancer and nutrition offers tips for staying healthy and strategies for managing treatment side effects such as nausea and loss of appetite.
How to Explain Cancer to a Child
Telling a child about a loved one’s cancer diagnosis can be a challenge. This guide offers age-appropriate ways to explain cancer to a child.
Exercise & Cancer
Regular physical activity can help patients cope with the side effects of cancer treatment and improve their energy levels. This page provides information about exercise during and after cancer treatment.
Cancer Remission
Cancer and its treatment can take a toll on a patient physically and emotionally, even when the treatment achieves its goals of eradicating or controlling the cancer. This page covers the steps a patient can take to boost his or her health while in cancer remission.
Frequently Asked Questions
This FAQ page provides answers to questions that patients and their caregivers often ask. Visit the page to learn more about insurance, financial assistance, medical records, and what to expect at a first appointment with a Regional Cancer Care Associates oncologist.
Survivor Stories
Read firsthand survivor stories from people who have overcome cancer with the help of Regional Cancer Care Associates’ oncology team.
Medical Library
This extensive medical library includes articles from the National Cancer Institute on a range of topics including:
- Various types of cancer
- Cancer risk factors and prevention strategies
- Cancer diagnosis and staging
- Screening tests
- Treatments and clinical trials
- Complementary and alternative medicine
- Managing care
Healthcare Questions
Looking for information on a specific healthcare-related topic? The Circle of Health is a free web-based search tool that offers reliable health and wellness information for patients.
Clinical Trials
Cancer care is constantly evolving. Clinical trials are research studies that test the efficacy and safety of new medications and medical procedures. These treatments often are studied in a laboratory setting before they are tested on patients. Government agencies, charitable foundations, universities, or pharmaceutical companies may fund research trials.
Patients who participate in clinical trials receive cutting-edge treatments that may benefit them while they also help to advance cancer research. This page offers more information about clinical trials so patients can decide, in consultation with their care team, if this option makes sense for them.
Learn More About Regional Cancer Care Associates
Regional Cancer Care Associates offers state-of-the-art therapies and treatments for patients who have received a cancer diagnosis. RCCA’s oncology specialists have expertise in treating all types of cancer and are available to answer any questions patients may have throughout their treatment. Plus, Regional Cancer Care Associates offers patient education, caregiver resources, and financial assistance counseling. To learn more about the compassionate cancer care we offer, contact one of our 20+ locations throughout New Jersey, Connecticut, Maryland, and the Washington, D.C., area. You can request an appointment today.
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Survivor Stories
Read about how these people have overcome cancer with the help of their RCCA physicians and clinical team.
Determine if Clinical Trials are Right for You
Understand what is involved in participating in a clinical trial — and in determining if one may be right for you.
Contact RCCA Now
If you need additional information or educational resources, please do not hesitate to call (844) 346-7222. You can also schedule an appointment by calling the RCCA location nearest you.
Regional Cancer Care Associates is one of fewer than 200 medical practices in the country selected to participate in the Oncology Care Model (OCM); a recent Medicare initiative aimed at improving care coordination and access to and quality of care for Medicare beneficiaries undergoing chemotherapy treatment.