NEWS

5/1/10 -- Providence Cancer Center adopts the Touch, Caring and Cancer program as a free family support offering. Providence Cancer Center in Portland, Oregon, part of the Providence Health Care System in the northwestern states, is the first large cancer center to offer the Touch, Caring and Cancer program as a free gift to families of cancer patients receiving treatment there. Copies of the program will be provided as a way for family members to partcipate in their loved one's care at home. Providence Cancer Center has a strong program of Integrative Medicine Services at their facility, including massage, acupuncture, and other complementary therapies.

12/1/09 -- All versions of Touch, Caring and Cancer program now available. The English, Spanish and Chinese language versions of the award-winning program Touch, Caring and Cancer are now available (see trailers on this site). All versions use the same DVD with user-selectable language tracks. The DVD is accompanied by the illustrated manual in the language of the user's choice. The Music for Partners in Healing CD is also available now, with samples available on this site (contains the theme music from the DVD).

11/13/09 -- Study Shows Family Caregivers, Simple Touch Techniques Reduce Symptoms in Cancer Patients (news release of Society for Integrative Oncology presentation). Click here.

7/26/09 -- Susan G. Komen Foundation's Maine affiliate funds tote bag program that includes the Touch, Caring and Cancer DVD for breast cancer patients and caregivers. Southern Maine Medical Center VNA now includes the DVD Touch, Caring and Cancer in its tote bag program, funded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation's Maine affiliate, for breast cancer patients and their caregivers in southern Maine. Tote bags are distributed free by all surgeons' offices at the time of a breast cancer diagnosis. The program has also been adopted by the Mercy Hospital Breast Care Center in Portland.