THE CANCER REHABILITATION SUPPORT TEAM CReST

Core Purpose

• To deliver a quality service to patients with cancer through the provision of specialist expertise and interventions
• To provide a supportive environment where service can be developed through research, education, and expert clinical practice, promoting change through the delivery of evidence based practice.

Cancer Rehabilitation (Dietz 1981)

The goal of rehabilitation for people with cancer is to improve their quality of life for maximum productivity with minimum dependency, regardless of life expectancy. The rehabilitation process for cancer patients can be defined in four stages and the patient can move between any or all of these stages:

• Preventative Rehabilitation - treatment in anticipation of potential disability to lessen severity
• Restorative Rehabilitation - to enable clients to return to their premorbid status with minimal handicap
• Supportive Rehabilitation - to support clients through their decline, the disease being progressive but stabilised, so they can remain as functional as possible, retaining choice and control.
• Palliative Rehabilitation - to assist in symptom control, the disease being progressive and in its advanced stages, to prevent or minimise associated complications and maintain a quality of life.

Our Team

Specific
Rehabilitation:

Introduction

Our Team

Macmillan Women's Cancer

Lung Cancer Support

Macmillan Pallative Care

Radiotherapy Liaison Nurse

Colorectal Cancer Nursing

Therapists

Dietetics

Chaplains