NCIS Year End Celebration - Seed of Hope

This year, we will be having a joint celebration with the various support groups from NCIS. There will be individual sharing, medical talks, food, presentations by cancer survivors, carnival activities and sand art performance. Please come and join us. Open to all. Free admission. Please register attendance based on the contact provided above. Thanks.

Post event comment: Here is the video for event uploaded on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-GWATJVe7A

Head and Neck Public forum 2012

This year Head and Neck Cancer public forum was held at Tower Block Auditorium, NUH. There were 295 people who registered. The feedback comments were excellent.

Some of the wordings were like

"Best cancer forum attended so far"
"Motivational"
"Inspirational"
"Well organised. Good job"
"More of this forum - to hold every 6 months"

Below are some of the photos. A huge thank you to all the Radiotherapy Treatment Centre, Cancer Centre and ENT staffs from both NUH and TTSH. A special thank you to NCIS Corp Comm staffs who did a lot of preparatory work.

(From L-R) A/Prof Thomas Loh, Dr. Lim Chwee Ming, Dr. Ivan Tham, Dr. Lee Khai Mun, Dr. Choo Bok Ai,
Dr. Jeeve Kanagalingam, A/Prof Goh Boon Cher

(From L-R) Group Sharing. Jennifer, Dave, Carol, Richard, Robert, Yik Kwong,  Dr. Choo Bok Ai

Sharing from experiences and encouragement 

Volunteers for NPC support group- NPC OneHeart

300 people packed the auditorium and gave the forum a thumb up. "Best cancer forum attended" Keep it up

Excellence in Public Service Award 2012 - Mr. Peter Tang

Mr. Peter Tang has been the Chairperson of the NUH/TTSH NPC One Heart Support Group for the past 4 years. He was diagnosed and treated for NPC 22 years ago. Since then, he has been helping other cancer survivors and newly diagnosed NPC patients in their cancer journey towards recovery. His  passion and motivation to help other fellow survivors had won him the Excellence in Public Service Award 2012. The photo above was the prize giving ceremony at Marina Mandarin Hotel in May 2012 with Mr. Teo Chee Hean (Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore) as the guest of honour. Well done Peter! Keep up the good work.

Hearing Loss after treatment of NPC- How do we manage it?

Radiotherapy performed near the head and neck often have a common side effect – hearing impairments and other hearing/audio related problems  Several  members in our npc group  are now experiencing hearing difficulties of various degree as a result of the treatment done . 

What are the long and short term implications of this radiotherapy induced ear injuries? Are there better prevention and management measures available for members with this problem ? What about the use of hearing aids and cochlear implants? Will these help? 

What percentages of members suffer from acute middle ear infections, constant ringing in the ears (tinnitus), discharge and in some cases hearing loss? Is  the Eustachian tube damage as the result of the treatment? 

Besides hearing loss,  how about the other function of the ear – balancing.  Is a sense of transient imbalance a side effect too?

The Speaker : Dr Dr Liu Jia Ying

If any of you have concerns of the above please do not MISS this coming meeting. The details of the meeting are in the attachment above. Please email me to confirm your registration

For members who have difficulty opening up the attachment here is a brief info of the talk

Date : 12^th October ( Friday )

Topic : Hearing loss . How do We Manage It ?

Speaker : Dr Liu Jia Ying Time : 7 – 9pm

Venue : TTSH Conference Room 1

Peter Tang