Support and Education
Counseling Services
Magee offers an extensive behavioral health management service for women and their family members. The program and team of professionals represents a collaborative initiative between Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC and UPMC Cancer Centers Behavioral Medicine. Services include individual and family counseling, psychiatric consultation, assessment and treatment. To schedule an appointment, call 412-623-5888.
Ovarian Cancer Support Group
If you are a woman whose life is being affected by ovarian cancer, you know the many fears, stresses, and concerns that you face - for yourself, your family and your friends. You shouldn't hesitate to talk about your feelings with those who are significant in your life, as well as with the professional staff at the hospital. Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC of UPMC offers an ovarian cancer support group to give women the opportunity to exchange information and worries with others who are facing the same reality. Many women find this forum helpful to better cope and adjust emotionally to ovarian cancer and its treatment. Social workers and nurses, who understand the impact of cancer on a woman’s life, lead Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC’s ovarian cancer support groups. For more information, call 412 641-4254.
Picking Up the Pieces
Your physician, health care team, family, and friends are all important in your recovery from ovarian cancer. But as hard as they may try, unless they have experienced ovarian cancer themselves, they cannot completely understand your feelings, your fears, and your needs.
Many women with ovarian cancer find it helpful to talk to another woman who has had the disease - someone who is doing well, enjoying life again, and remembers the uncertainties and the questions. Picking Up the Pieces is a peer counseling program between long-term ovarian cancer survivors and newly-diagnosed ovarian cancer survivors. To find out more, call the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition - Pittsburgh Division at 412-486-4952.
Look Good...Feel Better
Look Good...Feel Better is a monthly beauty program designed to help women cope with the cosmetic side effects of cancer therapy. A trained cosmetologist from the American Cancer Society and a registered nurse conduct the program for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy. This two-hour program helps women to deal with the appearance-related side effects of therapy, offering assistance on make-up application, wig selection, and other types of alternative headwear. Visit the Look Good...Feel Better website or call the American Cancer Society at 1-800-395-LOOK for a listing of program dates and locations.