OnkoHelfer" project receives funding award from the Lower Saxony Cancer Society

The Lower Saxony Cancer Society awarded the 2023 sponsorship prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, at its 3rd benefit concert on February 4, 2024 in the Marktkirche Hannover. The Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of the MHH was honored for its "OnkoHelfer" project. The MHH Cancer Center shared the prize with the University Medical Center Göttingen, which received the award for a project from the Children's Oncology Center.

"OnkoHelfer" to support comprehensive care
In the context of oncological care, patients and their relatives not only have to deal with medical aspects, but also with psychosocial and socio-legal aspects. With a view to providing individual and comprehensive care for those affected and their relatives, the "OnkoHelfer" project, which ran from February to August 2023, aimed to provide interested laypeople without basic medical training with information to provide the best possible support for people with cancer and their relatives during this time and to enable them to pass on this information. Participants were able to receive training in six modules, including Communications and Conflict Management, Pastoral Care and Self-Help, Patients' Rights and Social Law Options, Diseases and Therapies, and Oncological Nursing and Rehabilitation.

Formore information on the project and to take part in the upcoming course, visit www.mhh.de/ccc/onkoakademie/onkohelfer