At our CANSA Care Centres, we provide holistic care and support to cancer survivors from the time of diagnosis through all phases of need, including survivorship

At our CANSA Care Centres, we provide holistic care and supportto cancer survivors from the timeof diagnosis through all phases of need, including survivorship

“Cancer is not a death sentence, but rather it is a life sentence; it pushes one to live.”- Marcia Smith

CANSA provides guidance and advice to cancer survivors and their families to improve their quality of life in all phases of treatmentand after

Specialist care offered at our CANSA Care Centres involves treatment of complications resulting from cancer treatment - specifically lymphoedema, stoma and treatment of acute and

chronic hard-to-heal wounds.

Acute and Chronic Wound Care

The body heals wounds through a natural process. At times, however, some wounds - big and small - don’t heal the way they should.

Our certified wound care therapists offer advice and basic wound care.

Stoma Care

We offer pre- and post-operative counselling, actual siting of the stoma and intra-operative care.

Incontinence advice and coping skills are given to patients and families.

Lymphoedema Treatment

Our specially-trained lymphoedema therapists offer Complete Decongestive Therapy (CDT) to manage the symptoms of patients affected by lymphoedema.

CDT treatment includes manual lymph drainage, compression bandaging, special exercise, as well as skin and nail care.

In the past year, CANSA...

Provided specialist care to more than600 stoma patients and to about 40 lymphoedema patients every month

For each person diagnosed, cancer is a unique experience. No two people will travel the same journey during and after cancer treatment. How people cope when diagnosed, during or after treatment (or even when in remission), is different for each individual. One common thread in all people with cancer is the need for a good support system.

CancerCare Coping Kit

We know how scary and stressful a cancer diagnosis can be. That’s why our CancerCare Coping Kit (2 audio CDs) is great for anyone recently diagnosed with cancer because it provides information and practical tools and tips to promote physical, emotional and mental well-being before and during treatment - in short, helping you and your loved ones cope with cancer.

Our revised kits contains tips and advice from cancer survivors who know just how difficult it really is to cope with cancer.

Support Groups

Our active support groups connect patients, long-term survivors and their loved ones with others who have 'been there' for insight, emotional support & understanding, hope and inspiration, and bereavement support when needed.

Support Groups

Our support groups include:• ’Hoping is Coping’ • ‘Sharing and Caring’ groups• Cancer specific groups • Day Care groups • Tough Living with Cancer

(TLC) groups(support to children with cancer and families affected by cancer)

There are many times when the pressures of dealing with cancer can become a heavy emotional and mental burden. Cancer can affect us beyond just the physical effects of a tumour. Whether you are a newly diagnosed person with cancer, a person who has had cancer before, or the carer or family of someone with cancer, you might experience some form of emotional stress as part of the natural human response.

Individual Counselling

Individual counselling is a very effective way to unload some of that stress in a safe and supportive environment where our experienced counsellors can help you enormously in dealing with your feelings, aspirations and fears. Counselling is available for those with cancer, as well as their loved ones.


• Supported 14 000 individual cancer patients through our 159 support groups and our 2800 trained caregivers

• Visited and supported an average of 3 500 patients per month in oncology clinics while undergoing cancer treatment

• Supported people affected by cancer by providing individual counselling to 20 000 people, and made medical loan equipment available to 3 400 people

CANSA Care Lodges

We provide home-from-home accommodation to patients undergoing cancer treatment at oncology clinics far from home.

Guests at our many CANSA Care Lodges around the country stay for an average of six weeks, and receive meals and transport to and from treatment centres.

CANSA Care Lodges

Our pilot Care Lodge for parents whose children are undergoing treatment, the CANSA TLC Nicus Lodge at the Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria, has shown such a huge demand for parental accommodation for the duration of their children’s cancer treatment that we are now working very hard at launching similar lodges close to paediatric oncology centres in other cities as well.

CANSA Care Lodges

Very ill cancer (and other) patients receive excellent nursing care at our 10-bed hospitium – the Theunis Fichardt Hospitium in Polokwane.


Welcomed 2 400 individual patients to our 13 CANSA Care Lodges, where they were served 126 000 meals during their combined 42 000 night-stay.

The very high cost of treatment is a reality for anyone who has heard the words, “You have cancer”.

A cancer diagnosis places huge financial demands on people when they can least afford it.

In fact, the American Cancer Society estimates that 67% of total cancer costs are non-medical.

CancerSureTM

Introducing CancerSureTM - a unique, affordable insurance policy that pays out a cash lump sum of up to R100,000 in the event of a cancer diagnosis. CancerSureTM (the first of its kind in South Africa) is a comprehensive cancer insurance policy that is available to all adults, including those previously diagnosed with cancer*.

CancerSureTM offers affordable cover against most cancers. It also includes an additional death benefit.

More details following soon

*Terms and conditions apply.

We fight cancer by making people aware of the importance of the early detection of cancer

to enable more effective treatment and a better chance of recovery.

Community-based cancer control programmes

Communities far from CANSA Care Centres will continue to benefit from our existing community-based cancer control programmes.


This includes:•Regular cancer screening clinics, reaching as many people as possible and assisting to refer those diagnosed with cancer and who need treatment.


Eight mobile clinics travelling to remote areas throughout South Africa to reach people who would otherwise not have access to screening.


• ‘Spot-the-spot’ skin clinics held between November and February

• Prostrate and cervical cancer screening

• Breast examinations


Conducted cancer screening:• 10 400 Pap smears and facilitated an additional 4 033 in partnership with the

Department of Health (DOH) for cervical cancer

• 15 400 Breast examinations to detect breast lumps and facilitated an additional 1 750 in partnership with DOH

• 5 600 PSA tests to detect prostate cancer

• 700 skin examinations and 315 FotoFinder examinations to check for skin cancers

• Abnormalities were detected in approximately 7% of these cases


• Active participation in Wellness days• Awareness campaigns throughout the year which include – Men's Health– Women's Health– Child and Youth– Environment (including SunSmart)– Anti-Tobacco– Balanced Lifestyle


Distributed 700 000 information pamphlets and 15 000 posters in four languages to promote our awareness campaigns

Dedicated CANSA Call Centre

Friendly and informed staff at our toll-free call centre provide compassionate customer service, awareness materials, information and referrals for anything related to cancer support and care. We are here to answer your questions or concerns.

Get in touch with us.Call us toll-free on 0800 22 66 22, email [email protected] or visit us at www.cansa.org.za

In the past year, the CANSA Call Centre...

Responded to questions and requests from 21 000 people

13 000 people preferred to call us, while 8 000 people emailed us

CANSA – an award winning NPO

Our awards include:

The 2009 World No Tobacco Day

Achievement Award - by the World Health

Organization (WHO) in recognition of

CANSA's accomplishments in the fight

against tobacco use in South Africa


Our awards include:

The 2010 South African NGO Web Award by

South African NGO Network (SANGONeT)


Trust Barometer

CANSA was rated as one of South Africa's most trusted and admired NGOs operating in the country.

This is according to the 2010 and 2011 Ask Africa Trust Barometer results – an annual survey reporting on corporate trust and reputation in the South African market, based on peer review.

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the

responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for

love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for, don't.”

Cassandra Clare

Today - 80 years and many steps later - we celebrate

our vibrant past and position ourselves for the next

exciting steps on our journey to a cancer-smart

world.

CANSA is a big family of caring volunteers and staff

who are

united in the fight against cancer. We've been caring

for, and changing lives, of countless people for 80

years.

Eight decades ago a new organisation was born...

Eighty years is a significant milestone for any

organisation, but it is particularly significant for a

non-profit company.

CANSA's rise from its humble beginnings during the

Great Depression to being an internationally

respected organisation can be attributed not only to

donors who have believed in our cause, but

especially to the loyal staff and volunteers who have

made CANSA their second family and who have put

their hearts and souls into its success.

Sadly we all know someone who has, or has

had, cancer. Many of us have a personal

cancer story we can share – about our family,

friends or co-workers. At the Cancer

Association, we realise two things:

• Providing hope and dignity are two of

the most important factors in the fight against

cancer

• Embracing change without fear is the key to

growth and success

These two core beliefs have fuelled

CANSA's growth from its inception in

1931 when it was started by a group of

medical professionals who were

concerned about the high incidence of

cancer, to being the leading cancer

control organisation in Southern Africa

today.

1930s

In September 1931, 75 delegates representing 24

bodies as well as four individuals concerned about

the suffering caused by cancer, convened the first

National Cancer Conference.

It was decided to establish a National Cancer

Association and investigate the possibility of

establishing a cancer register as well as special

cancer centres or clinics in large hospitals throughout

the country where the causes, optimal treatment of

cancer and better diagnostic methods could be

investigated.

1930s

As a result, the Memorandum of Articles of

Association of the National Cancer Association

was registered in terms of the Companies Act on

29 January 1932. As CANSA celebrates its 80th

anniversary,

the focus of the organisation

remains on

the prevention of cancer and

patient support

1930s

Owing to the Great

Depression and World

War II – the first two

decades of the existence

of the Cancer Association

were challenging and its

activities severely limited

Since the 1930s, there have

been many advances in

science, medicine, politics

and the way we perceive the

world...

1930s

• The planet Pluto was discovered in 1930

• In 1931 there was the first clinical use of Penicillin

• Air Conditioning was invented

• Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the

Atlantic

• The Loch Ness Monster was first spotted

• The saga of Bonnie and Clyde unfolded

• The Parker Brothers started selling the game "Monopoly”

• The helicopter was invented

1940s

• Apartheid was born

• Ballpoint pens went on sale

• The microwave oven was invented

• The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and

Nagasaki

• Bikinis were introduced

• Polaroid cameras were invented

• Gandhi was assassinated

• China became a communist nation

• George Orwell published the novel ’Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (1984)

1950s

A National Cancer Congress was convened by the

then Minister of Health, Dr. Karl Bremer, and the

Cancer Association introduced educational

programmes to inform the public about the

importance of early detection of cancer and healthy

living.

Clinical facilities for early detection of uterine cancer

were established and a Durban-based laboratory did

approximately 70 000 Pap smears annually.

1950s

• South Africans were forced to carry ID cards identifying race

• The very first Peanuts comic strip, written by Charles M. Schulz, first

appeared

• Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the 1st people to

summit Mt. Everest

• Laika the dog became the very first living creature to enter orbit

• Princess Elizabeth (25) became queen of England after her father,

King George VI, died. He had suffered from lung cancer.

• The polio vaccine was created

• DNA was discovered

• Britain sponsored an expedition to search for the abominable

snowman

1960s

The first Interim Home (namely

'Tipuana') was pioneered for cancer

patients in Pretoria, followed by

other Interim Homes in

Bloemfontein, Durban, Port

Elizabeth, Cape Town and

Johannesburg.

1960s

• Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison

• South African surgeon Dr Christ Barnard conducted the world’s first

heart transplant on 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky

• Lasers were invented

• The Berlin Wall was erected

• Neil Armstrong became the very first man to walk on the moon

• Andy Warhol exhibited his Campbell's Soup Can

• The Twist, a dance done by swivelling the hips, became a worldwide

dance craze

1970s

An innovative educational and

fundraising initiative called 'Toktokkie'

(also known as 'Tap-Tap') was launched

nationwide and has become a popular

annual fundraiser and awareness

campaign.

1970s

Since inception, the organisation has been

committed to sponsoring research grants at

major universities and research institutions.

The research was to be of international calibre to

enable South African cancer therapists to

provide continuously improving levels of therapy

to people living with cancer in South Africa.

1970s

Community services were continuously

expanded and a

total care programme developed to assist cancer

patients and their families from diagnosis to the

terminal and bereavement phases where

necessary.

Doctors, nurses, social workers, ministers of

religion

and volunteers were involved in all these

initiatives.

1970s

Volunteers formed part of the 'I Can Cope‘

programme designed to help cancer patients

and their families cope with a cancer diagnosis.

Other support groups such as Reach for

Recovery for breast cancer patients and

survivors were established and remain a vital

part.

1970s

• South African anti-Apartheid leader Steve Biko died in police

custody

• Margaret Thatcher became first woman Prime Minister of Great

Britain

• Mother Theresa awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

• Computer floppy disks were introduced

• VCRs were introduced

• Pocket calculators were introduced

• Microsoft was founded

• Sony introduced the Walkman

1980s

As a member of the organisation now known as

the Union for International Cancer Control

(UICC), we hosted the UICC's Executive

Committee meeting in Johannesburg as well as

an international conference on oesophageal

cancer in Cape Town.

1980s

The Lukholweni Care Centre opened in Soweto, the

Philani Centre in Langa, Western Cape and Kathleho in

Mangaung in the Free State – all to provide a variety

of community services.

The Hospicare Programme also provided numerous

services ranging from home nursing to pain control.

The Karl Bremer hospitium was opened followed by

the Theunis Fichardt hospitium in Polokwane.

1980s

• The Berlin Wall came down

• Nuclear explosion at Chernobyl

• The Rubik's Cube became an obsession around the world

• John Lennon was assassinated

• New ‘plague’ identified as AIDS

• Hole in the ozone layer was discovered

• Exxon Valdez spills millions of gallons of oil on the Alaskan

coastline

• Students massacred in China's Tiananmen Square

• U.S. President Bush announced that he doesn't like broccoli

1990s

The National Cancer Association's name was changed

to the

Cancer Association of South Africa (CANSA) and a new

corporate identity developed.

The mission of CANSA was revised to “fighting cancer

and its consequences countrywide for the benefit of

all South Africans in cooperation with the community

by supporting research, health education, information,

care and supportive services”.

1990s

An Information Service was formed to gather, archive

and distribute information about cancer and CANSA's

activities to

cancer patients and their families, academics,

medical professionals, students and members of the

public.

CANSA's National Head Office relocated from

Braamfontein to Bedfordview.

1990s

CANSA (as a member of the Tobacco

Action Group) played a major role in the

anti-tobacco legislation of 1999 to ban

advertising and sponsorship activities of

tobacco products.

1990s

• South African Apartheid laws were repealed

• Nelson Mandela was freed and elected as president of South

Africa

• The Cold War officially over

• World Trade Centre bombed

• Scientists cloned Dolly the sheep

• Introduction of the Euro as the new European currency

• Princess Diana died in a car crash

• The Y2K Bug

The new millennium

During the early part of this decade CANSA

modernised its image by adopting a corporate identity

which included a new logo and a corporate message.

In 2009 this was revised to reflect the uniquely

integrated service to the public and all people affected

by cancer.

• Our purpose states that we aim to lead the fight

against cancer. Our mission statement highlights us

as the leading role-player in cancer research (R5

million spent annually) as well as our valuable role as

the cancer 'watchdog' for all South Africans.

The new millennium

This new concept of CANSA offering a

uniquely integrated three-tiered service

(research, advocacy and health

programmes), has been well received

by staff, volunteer leaders, key

stakeholders and leaders within the

communities.

The new millennium

CANSA's environmental awareness campaign was

launched in 2008 and since then the main focus has

been to take a stand on environmental issues by

actively communicating CANSA's researched-based

position statement on cancer and the environment.

We advocate that 90% of all cancers are caused by

environmental factors such as tobacco smoke,

infections, excessive sunlight and environmental

pollution mainly by man-made chemicals, the diet we

follow and other minor factors.

The new millennium

The latter half of this decade saw the

introduction of our CANSA TLC programme

where we offer support to children living

with cancer and render practical assistance

and counselling for their families.

The new millennium

The last three years have highlighted our very

important watchdog role and how we protect you,

the consumer.

We do this through our CANSA Seal of Recognition –

the Smart Choice and SunSmart symbols you will

notice when buying certain products. It is backed by

research and has added an exciting dimension to

cancer prevention in South Africa and to CANSA's

advocacy role.

“The people who make a difference in your life are not the ones with the

most credentials, the most money, or the most awards. They are the ones

that care.”

Charles Schultze

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to

get better. It's not.”

Dr. Seuss

Thank You!Toll-Free 0800 22 66 22www.cansa.org.za

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At our CANSA Care Centres, we provide holistic care and support to cancer survivors from the time of diagnosis through all phases of need, including survivorship