Cancer Patient Resources

The Patient Resource Center

Desert Care Network provides a convenient Patient Resource Center that helps you and your family manage your cancer experience. We offer educational programs on multiple topics so that you can access them as you need.

Our Patient Resource Center also offers the following resource materials:

• Books (cancer related and fictional)
• Video tapes
• Audio tapes
• Newsletters
• Computers with internet access

We have identified pamphlets and community support groups to help make it easier for you to access information. Our staff is ready to help you find the information you need.

You are welcome to browse some articles about healthy living online:

• Cancer and the Caregiver  (El Cáncer Y El Cuidador)
• Common Side Effects
• Exercise & Fatigue
• Managing Infection  (Cómo Tratar Las Infecciones)
• Managing Stress  (Manejo Del Estrés Y Mantenerse Positivo)
• Treatment and Nutrition: How to Help Manage Side effects (Nutrición)
• Pain (El Cáncer Y El Dolor)
• Cómo Enfrentar La Caída Del Cabello
• Cómo Tratar La Náuseas

The following agencies also provide cancer resources and support:

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Support Community
• Cancer Care
• National Cancer Institute
• National Institutes of Health

Lunch and orientation are on us

Attend our New Patient Orientation and lunch from noon to 1:30 p.m. on the second Monday of each month.