Mental health care on hand for cancer patients

Tuesday, 30 September 2014 00:00

It's important that Manx cancer patients have access to mental health professionals.

That's the message from the Isle of Man Cancer Users' Forum - after a conference last week.

Psycho-oncology is becoming synonymous with the use of modern cancer treatments - focusing on the prevention of mental illness as a result of coping with the disease.

Isle of Man Anti-Cancer and Manx Cancer Help fund the service on Island.

Forum chairman Derek Peters, who has suffered from head and neck cancer himself, says it's imperative to recovery:

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