Fertility Preservation for Young Cancer Patients

We are always here to offer End of Life Care (EOL) to the last days and hours of cancer patients' life (and their families) with non-medical interventions to giving due repsect to the patient's wishes and values. 

Cancer patients and their families would often feel lost when the cancer journey reaches the advanced stage. We  provide them with professional advices and counselling services to ensure they are able to cope with challenges in the advanced stage as well as the bereavement stage. 

A number of support programmes have also been arranged to prepare them to deal with a wide range of issues aroused in the advanced stage. The programmes have covered topics on caring tips for advanced stage cancer patients, symptoms management in palliative care, preparation for advanced care plan, dealing with losses, arrangement on Will and property management.  A free family photo taking session has been offered to the families to allow them to enjoy a family time in a relax atmosphere and capture the precious moment. It is well received by many patients over the years.

In the past 6 months, we have accompanied about 200 patients and their caregivers to sail through the difficult times. We look forward to continue to count on your generous support to provide comfort and care to more patients in need in the coming year. 

Many patients and their caregivers wonder about the next steps when cancer is very advanced and treatment is no longer working or has been stopped. We are here to strive to foster End of Life care by offering to the last days and hours of cancer patient’s life (and their families) with non-medical interventions to giving due respect to the patients’ s wishes and values.

Talking about dying and end of life care can be very hard for the patients and their caregivers. We adopt a multi-disciplinary case management approach and arrange a number of seminar-based programmes to provide practical advices for caring the patients at advanced stage and introduce the families to palliative services available in Hong Kong as well as other practical resources. Patients will also have the opportunity to express their wishes about how care should be conducted and the arrangement after their death.

Losing a loved one to cancer can be a painful and difficult time for the whole family. Our bereavement support service prepares people who are expected to be affected by the death of a loved one. We not only provide emotional support to the families while they are coping with the loss, but also arrange different family bonding activities during the end-of-life journey such as family photo taking session to give them precious memories to treasure when the patient passed away.

With the limitation on social gatherings in Hong Kong, we provide counselling via telephone and conduct programmes via Zoom to support our patients and families in need as much as possible. All service users involved in the project have positive feedbacks on usefulness and satisfaction particularly on understanding community resources available, coping skills, advance directive and personal plan, pain management and building up family relationships.

I would like to thank you all who have supported us throughout the year. Your generosity means a lot to us at this challenging time. Every dollar from you will definitely make a true difference to these families and help them to sail through the tough time.