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About 90 cancer patients in the nutritional blind spot
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사진 확대 [National Cancer Center]
The National Cancer Center announced on the 8th that it will expand its nutrition support program “Care Bridge” for one year from this year to solve the nutritional imbalance of vulnerable cancer patients suffering from economic difficulties.
CareBridge is a social contribution model centered on public-private cooperation that helps smooth recovery by providing balanced nutritional products to vulnerable cancer patients who have difficulty in proper nutrition intake. The National Cancer Center, which confirmed patients’ health recovery and high satisfaction during the four-month trial operation last year, decided to expand the support period to one year from this year to operate a more stable support system.
This year’s program will be run by the National Cancer Center Medical Social Welfare Team. The team will use a “social needs screening tool” to precisely select subjects with insufficient nutritional status among cancer patients in the vulnerable class. The target audience will receive a customized nutritional package composed of sponsorship from WellLife, a company specializing in health food.
Approximately 90 people are eligible for the support. Considering the patient’s individual condition and intake capacity, nutritional drinks and low-sugar nutritional snacks for cancer patients will be provided for two months. In particular, the National Cancer Center plans to further increase the effectiveness of the support by providing individual counseling from nutritionists specializing in clinical nutrition rooms to patients who need nutritional counseling.
“As the support period has been extended, we expect it to be of practical help to patients who have been in a nutritional blind spot,” said Park Hae-kyung, head of the medical social welfare team at the National Cancer Center. “In the future, we will continue to develop various programs to help cancer patients return to society and play a strong role as a bridge between patients and society.”
The National Cancer Center plans to continue patient-centered social contribution activities based on close cooperation between the public and private sectors in the future. It also plans to do its best to create a treatment environment that can improve the health equity of cancer patients.
Yang Han-kwang, director of the National Cancer Center, said, “We deeply appreciate Daesang Well-Life for its meaningful support for cancer patients to focus only on treatment and return to their daily lives in good health. As we felt the importance of this program through heartfelt feedback from patients received through the pilot project last year, we hope that this expansion will help Care Bridge to become a sustainable social contribution model beyond one-time support.”
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