Cancer support services guidelines set gold standard

NATIONAL guidelines, to ensure cancer support services are managed and delivered in the best way possible, have been published by the Irish Cancer Society (ICS).

Developed as part of the recommendations of the National Strategy for Cancer Control, they set a gold standard for services so survivors feel safer using them.

ICS support groups manager Olwyn Ryan said the society had been asked to expand its role to become an umbrella body to which all support groups, support centres and peer support programmes can become affiliated.