Patient Education Library
This wide range of information is given to you from Roswell Park experts and trusted organizations that specialize in this area of healthcare.
Roswell Park provides a broad range of holistic supportive services and resources to help you cope with the physical, emotional and day-to-day concerns related to your illness, treatment and lifelong wellness.
These services are available to all Roswell Park patients but are particularly helpful to those with brain and neurological tumors and conditions.
View all of our support services
The 11 Day Power Play Cancer Resource Center
Our staff can help you find reliable and current information on many cancer topics, access books, videos, computers and printers, and connect with Roswell Park and community resources. Check out our headwear boutique to find a hat, wig or scarf that’s right for you.
Rehabilitation medicine
Rehabilitation medicine encompasses physical, occupational and speech therapy to improve your mobility and function.
Supportive & Palliative Care
Our Supportive & Palliative Care program provides essential support and symptom management to patients facing difficult symptoms such as pain, nausea, poor sleep, or anxiety related to cancer and its treatment, or who may be feeling overwhelmed or don't have the support they need to get through their treatment. Our team will take the time to listen to you, assess your symptoms and provide a way forward to relieve pain and other symptoms, improve quality of life and ease emotional distress and anxiety.
Nutrition counseling and services
Optimizing your nutrition is an important part of your cancer care. Our dietitians are integral members of your healthcare team and uniquely experienced in working with cancer patients to improve nutrition status before, during and after cancer treatment. Our team can help you meet vital nutrient needs to maintain strength, energy and prevent loss of muscle mass; improve your tolerance of your treatments; and promote healing to assist recovery and reduce infection risk.
Spiritual Care
Spiritual Care is an interfaith department supporting the concept of holistic medicine. We recognize the integration of spiritual, emotional, social, psychological and physical care as important for the health of the whole being. Working collaboratively with other health care professionals, chaplains provide spiritual care to all patients and their families and loved ones, regardless of religious affiliation.
Survivorship Center
This program focuses on your ongoing lifelong wellness and quality of life. Our wide range of services are designed to help you manage the emotional, physical and spiritual aspects of life after cancer.
Young Adult Cancer Program
Offering specialized care, support, resources, and social connections specifically to address the unique needs of patients in their 20s and 30s.