Resources

General Symptom Management:

1. Fatigue/Tiredness
   • http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/managing-symptoms-side-effects/fatigue-(tiredness)
2. Pain Management
   • http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/managing-symptoms-side-effects/constipation-caused-by-your-medications
   • https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/tv3824#tv3824-sec
3. Diarrhea
   • http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/managing-symptoms-side-effects/diarrhea-caused-by-medications
   • http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthtopics/content.asp?hwid=tv3875spec#tv3876
4. Constipation
   • http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/managing-symptoms-side-effects/constipation-(caused-by-opioid-pain-medications)
   • https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/tv3916spec
5. Breathlessness/Shortness of breath
   • http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/health-info/coping-with-cancer/managing-symptoms-side-effects/breathlessness

Exercise Related resources:

1. 1. HealthLinkBC – Physical Activity Services for Cancer. Telephone, email & web-based information, advice and exercise physiology services
   2. BC Cancer Exercise Support
   3. Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines: An Integration of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour, and Sleep
   4. Helpful Exercises for bladder cancer patients

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Nutrition related resources:

1. HealthLinkBC Dietician Services (telephone, e-mail and web-based information, advice and oncology nutrition service)
2. Canada’s Food Guide
3. BC Cancer Nutrition Support
4. BCC Nutrition Guidebook

Specific topics:

1. Protein
   • Quick Nutrition Check for Protein
   • Importance of Protein
2. Bowel Movement Issues
   • Food Choices to Lessen Gas
   • Food Choices to Help Manage Diarrhea
3. Calcium Calculator
   • Osteoporosis Canada calcium calculator
4. Heart Health
   • Heart Healthy Eating (HealthLinkBC)
5. Vegan Diets
   • Vegan Diet
6. Recipes
   • Urology Care Foundation – Living Healthy Cookbook with Information about Urologic Cancers
   • Cooking With Lentils 
   • Ellicsr Kitchen
   • American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)

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Other Lifestyle Management related resources:

1. CAMEO – Complementary Medicine Education Resources
   • http://cameoprogram.org/patient-health-care-provider-resources/sign-documents/
2. Canadian Cancer Society: One Step at a Time: You can Quit
   • One Step at a Time: You Can Quit | Canadian Cancer Society
3. Canadian Cancer Society: Help Someone Quit – one step at a time
   • One Step at a Time: Help Someone Quit | Canadian Cancer Society
4. CAMH Cannabis Use Guidelines
   • https://www.camh.ca/-/media/files/guides-and-publications/dyk-cannabis.pdf
   • https://www.camh.ca/-/media/files/pdfs—reports-and-books—research/canadas-lower-risk-guidelines-cannabis-poster.pdf
   • https://www.camh.ca/-/media/files/pdfs—reports-and-books—research/canadas-lower-risk-guidelines-cannabis-pdf.pdf
5. UHN – Know about alcohol and cancer risk (pamphlet)
   • http://www.uhn.ca/PatientsFamilies/Health_Information/Health_Topics/Documents/Know_about_Alcohol_and_Cancer_Risk.pdf
6. CAMH – Dealing with Drinking: How to quit or cut down
   • Link to purchase the book: https://store-camh.myshopify.com/products/pg081-pg070

If you are looking for a counsellor to talk to:

1. BC Cancer Patient and Family Counselling Services
2. Counselling BC
3. VGH Access and Assessment Centre – The Access and Assessment Centre (AAC) is here to help you, your family member or your friend during a non-life threatening mental health and/or substance use issue.

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If you are looking for aids to help plan the journey ahead/decision making:

1. TrueNTH – Treatment Decision Support
2. BC Cancer – Steps to Problem Solving
3. Canadian Cancer Society – Life after Cancer Treatment Information Booklet
4. Canadian Cancer Society – Cancer Information Services 

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If you are looking to talk to someone who’s been there:

1. TrueNTH – Peer Support
2. Canadian Cancer Society – Online Community
3. BC Cancer – Support programs in Vancouver
4. BC Cancer – Support programs in Kelowna
5. BC Cancer – Support programs in Prince George
6. BC Cancer – Support programs in Victoria
7. BC Cancer – Support programs in Surrey

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If you are looking for resources to help cope with stress:

1. Heart and Stroke Foundation – Coping with stress
   • https://www.heartandstroke.ca/get-healthy/reduce-stress/manage-your-stress
2. Canadian Cancer Society – Cancer Information Services
   • http://www.cancer.ca/en/support-and-services/support-services/talk-to-an-information-specialist/?region=bc

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If you are looking for social support/engagement in the community:

1. City of Vancouver Recreational Programs – Offers a wide variety of accessible recreational programs and activities to help seniors get involved and stay active
   • vancouver.ca/people-programs/recreation-programs-and-centres-for-seniors.aspx
2. HIM Health Initiative for Men: HIM is an initiative set out to strengthen and support gay men’s health and well-being including clinics, counselling services and social events.
   • checkhimout.ca/events/category/social-health/
3. Qmunity program offers opportunities for LGBTQ community connection, social support, and personal development for folks 55 years and older.
   • qmunity.ca/get-support/olderadults

BCSC Patient Information Sheets:

1. Sexual Adaptation after Bladder Cancer
2. Masculinity and Bladder Cancer
3. Sexual Desire and Arousal
4. Talking about Sex (Tips for Being Sexual)
5. Intimate Play with a Soft Penis
6. Optimizing Orgasm and Managing Painful Orgasm
7. Rapid Ejaculation (Orgasm)
8. Penile Rehabilitation Following Surgery
9. Penile Injection Therapy 
10. Vacuum Pump Erection Device (VED)
11. Tension Band and Tips for Comfort
12. Pills to Help Create Erections (PDE5i)

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Counselling Services:

1. Counselling BC: This is helpful website to find a counsellor and/or sex therapist in your area. After choosing your city, you go to “Area of Practice” and click on a specialty such as “sexuality” and/or “marriage and relationship issues”
   • counsellingbc.com/counsellors
2. Psychology Today: Here is another website to find a counsellor and/or sex therapist in your area. Choose your area and then under “Issues” you can click a specialty such as “sex therapy” or “relationship issues”
   • psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists

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Mindfulness:

Studies have shown that regular meditation or mindfulness practice can increase your attention or presence when being sexual, enhancing intimacy and pleasure. Mindfulness may also assist with managing anxiety, stress and depression. Here are some free guided mindfulness exercises:

• marc.ucla.edu/mindful-meditations
• https://www.mindful.org/category/meditation/
• freemindfulness.org/download
• pocketmindfulness.com
• archive.org/details/MCullenBodyScanMeditation
• buddhanet.net/audio-meditation.htm

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Book Recommendations:

1. Sex & Intimacy
   • Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship by David Schnarch
   • Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex by Joan Price
   • Partners in Passion: A Guide to Great Sex, Emotional Intimacy and Long-term Love by Mark A. Michaels and Patricia Johnson
   • Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch
   • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman
   • The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in The Ways of Relationships by Sobonfu E. Somé
2. Mindfulness
   • Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love by John Welwood
   • Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection by S.J. Scott and Barrie Davenport
   • Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Thich Nhat Hanh
   • Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman
   • Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
   • You Are Not Your Pain: Using Mindfulness to Relieve Pain, Reduce Stress and Restore Well-Being-An Eight-Week Program by Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman
3. Sexuality & Masculinity
   • The New Male Sexuality by Bernie Zibergeld
   • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by Bell Hook
4. Sex Advice & Techniques
   • The Joy of Sex: The Timeless Guide to Lovemaking by Alex Comfort and Susan Quilliam
   • Nina Hartley’s Guide to Total Sex by Nina Hartley and I.S. Levine
   • The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know by Mantak Chia and Douglas Abrams (Other books by this author include: The Multi-Orgasmic Couple and The Multi-Orgasmic Woman)
   • The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex by Stephen E. Goldstone
   • She Comes First: The Thinking Man’s Guide to Pleasuring a Woman by Ian Kerner
   • Ageless Erotica by Joan Price and Cheyenne Blue
   • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel
5. Overcoming Other Sexual Challenges
   • How to Overcome Premature Ejaculation by Helen Singer Kaplan (this book also applies to men who may no longer have ejaculation from their treatment but still face “premature orgasm”)
6. For Women
   • Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire by Lori Brotto and Emily Nagoski
   • When Sex Hurts: A Woman’s Guide to Banishing Sexual Pain by Andrew T. Goldstein, Caroline Pukall and Irwin Goldstein

Sean Lee – Downtown Vancouver

Calvin Wong – East Vancouver

Taha Beigi – South Surrey

1. BCSC Program Youtube channel

1. National Cancer Institute
2. Physiotherapy Association of British Columbia: How to find a physiotherapist in BC
3. HealthLinkBC – List of common symptoms and side effects and how to manage them
4. BC Cancer – List of common symptoms and side effects and how to manage them
5. Sexual Medicine Society of North America
6. BC Centre for Sexual Medicine
7. BC Cancer – Hereditary Cancer Program
8. Cancer.net – Comprehensive information for people with cancer, families, and caregivers
9. InspireHealth – Cancer supportive care