Advice

The guide "Your chemotherapy" in PDF:

This guide will accompany the patient throughout the duration of their chemotherapy. It aims to help and inform the patient in order to deal with his/her treatment in a better way. The guide helps to facilitate communication between the patient and the nursing staff.

This personal guide was created in collaboration with physicians, oncologists and patients. It is free for all patients undergoing treatment in all the hospitals with a wellness center of the Mimi Foundation.

This guide contains the extensive information. Many questions are raised after the shock of the diagnosis. It is important that the patient can find complete and easily understandable answers about all aspects of the treatment and the side effects: nausea, fatigue, weight gain etc.

The guide provides a plan that the patient can fill in. An original approach to help him/her improve the experience of his/her treatment: portal pages, pages to make notes, follow charts, ..

This guide aims to be a valuable tool for each patient that can help them cope with their illness more easily by allowing them to take their treatment into their own hands – to make it somehow their own.

Uses

The patient may note all of his/her questions in the personal guide – and all the questions he is afraid of forgetting owing to stress or confusion during meetings with the oncologist.

It provides a valuable reminder tool. The patient can write what has been said during the consultations, any changes in the treatment, doctor’s advice and tips, etc.

He/she can also write down various appointments, the contact details of people to call upon within the framework of the treatment, etc.

Promotion of the guide

Doctors-oncologists participated in the production of the guide and are the main promoters of this project. They encourage patients to use the guide.

The Mimi Foundation has created a poster based on the guide in order to inform and alert patients and their companions regarding the objectives. It can be found on the walls of oncology departments in the partner hospitals.