Aim of the project is improving skills and qualificants of cancer patients and their families, who are in the post-treatment phase, in order to enable them to support and care themselves at home. Since, post-treatment process lasts extended period of times and these patients need regular medical counselling for support, provision of this support by regular hospital visits is an inefficient process for both health providers and patients. In order to provide a more effectual health support for cancer patients and their families, the project consortium under the leadership of Ankara Oncology Training and Research Hospital plan to employ ICTs. Consisting of Oncology Hospital, ANT Foundation, APEC Education, Phoenix Institute and Previform, the consortium is going to develop three intellectual outputs. There will be an e-book containing education modules about palliative care for cancer patients in post-treatment period. The second output will be educational video series. The series will contain practical information about cancer patient care at home. The video series will explain how to implement patient care procedures at home and explanations are going to be made by medical personnel. The third one will be a digital education are for cancer patients and health providers in the field of oncology services. The area will serve as a social solidarity portal for cancer patients and their relatives. Updates, news and events related with member organisations, articles published by medical personnel of the member organisations, information regarding medical services in proximity will be available the area. There were an estimated 1.4 million new cases of cancer in men and 1.2 million in women in the EU in 2018. In Turkey, cancer is the result of 1 of 5 deaths in 2018. Considering the large amounts of people who are in need of continuous medical support after the treatment process in both Turkey and the EU, the necessity to add transnational dimension into this project becomes evident. The project will be managed in a systematic manner. Partners will regulary meet in face to face and in Skype meetings. Cloud storage will be used for cooperation and document share. Regular supervision and reporting will ensure the quality of project management. An effective dissemination plan will be executed in order to reach maximum amount of people who are in target groups. Multiplier events will be held in medicine conference format for promoting the project results. Upon the completion of the project, the first imminent results we expect is that cancer patients and their families will be able to access tools to equip themselves with information and skills which are needed to support the patient in the post-curation stage. Palliative cancer care skills will be ready to be gained for adults via project results. Finally, there will be a sustainable and lasting platform for health providers to use for providing better post-treatment support.
The objective of this project was to provide cancer patients and their families with resources they could use to find the medical counsel they need. We aimed to develop digital education materials for cancer patients and their families. These materials are an e-book, educational video series and educational digital area. The e-book includes the topics that the cancer patients need most. It is a guideline for cancer patients in curation, recovery and survivorship phases. The educational materials developed in this project addresses the medical support needs of the cancer patients and their relatives. The project wants to reach the cancer patients and their caregivers and to provide a reliable source for their well-being. Thus, we prepared the e-book and the video series and the e-learning platform as our primary training area. By doing this we also aimed to reduce the workload of the medical staff as well as providing information for our target groups, who don’t have access to medical institutions specialized in cancer treatment. Besides, project consortium wanted to provide a primary reference guide of cancer treatment to the adult education providers in the field of health training.
Cancer is a common illness that effects both the patients and their caregivers. Even after curative treatment, most cancer patients enter the phase of survivorship. Challenges during this time may include difficulty returning to former life. Family members who went out of their way to provide support during treatment typically return to more normal levels of engagement and support. The frequency of meetings with the cancer care team generally declines. These issues can make it difficult to smoothly negotiate the transition from treatment to recovery. Regular medical care following primary treatment is particularly important for cancer survivors because of the potential lingering effects of treatment, as well as the risk of recurrence and additional cancer diagnoses. Therefore, cancer patients as well as their families in curation and survivorship stages have an essential need of continuous medical counselling and support. Considering the large volumes of cancer patients who are in the need for lifelong medical counselling, meeting with this demand puts immense amounts of workload on doctors This deficiency also decreases the quality of medical care the cancer patients get significantly.