Hunter Prostate Cancer Awareness & Support Group
Aims and Objectives:
- To provide support to the patients, families and carers of men diagnosed with prostate cancer via:
- Monthly meetings
- Personal contact
- Social activities to promote a sense of cohesion and well-being
- To provide relevant education and awareness via:
- Credible and up to date medical information relative to the member’s condition by diagnosed authorities in their field
- Information on self-help strategies that may assist members in a sense of mastery over their illness
- Access to relevant resources that are available in the wider community
- Moving into speaking circuits to promote general community awareness and education
- Encouraging men to think and speak about their own prostate health
- To work and promote awareness of the issues relating to prostate cancer, both locally and nationally:
- By the use of print and electronic media, newsletters, pamphlets and by word of mouth
- By affiliation with other state and interstate prostate cancer support groups and by supporting the national body
- By encouraging prostate cancer patients and their families to join the Group