Patient Support Services
Cancer Survivorship Support Group
3:30 PM every third Thursday of each month – 10th Floor Clinic Building
Monitoring for early detection | Management of Treatment | Promotion of a Healthy Lifestyle
For more information, contact Darlene Ellis, APRN @ 606-430-8513.
The Art of Healing – Patients & Family Welcome!
10am-12pm 2nd Tuesday of every month
Community Outreach Office – 10th floor of the Clinic Building
Artistic activities designed to provide emotional support to people who are coping with a cancer diagnosis. Supplies will be provided.
Art therapy is the use of art to promote healing. It addresses the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs that cancer patients face when they get a cancer diagnosis. Art gives them an outlet to relax, be creative, and experience a few minutes of calming and peace. It improves their total health, quality of life, physical and psychological health.
Art therapy has been known to have healing effects for cancer patients. Creative activities provide a relaxing escape amidst a world of treatment, anxiety and fear. It helps them understand the myriad of emotions they are going through in their cancer journey. Art helps patients express these emotions that are normally hard to express in words.
Positive Effects on Cancer Patients:
- Personal growth
- Coping with negative emotions
- Person to person interaction
- Reduces need for pain medications
- Increase compliance with medications
To learn more or to participate, call
Lawson Cancer Center Community Outreach at 606-430-8513
Nutrition Classes
Last Wednesday of every month
10:30am – 11:00 am – Lawson Cancer Center Lobby – 10th floor of the PMC Clinic
Look Good. Feel Better.
Pikeville Medical Center offers patients of the Lawson Cancer Center access to free wigs, make-up, scarves and more as needed.
For more information, contact our outreach office @ 606-430-8513.
Tobacco Cessation
No Current Classes. For more information about smoking cessation, call the LCC Outreach office at 606-430-8513.
Improve your heart health and reduce your risk for cancer. Pikeville Medical Center offers help to those in the community who have the desire to quit smoking with our Plan to be Tobacco Free program. During this one-time, two-hour class, participants will get help coping with their nicotine addiction and learn about over the counter nicotine replacement products and how to use them. Enrollees are also supplied with the necessary tools to ease the transition from tobacco use. They are educated about prescription medication options that can be used to help them quit.