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FACILITATING CHANGE AFTER THE IMPACT OF A CANCER DIAGNOSIS A Paper Presented in Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements of : Societal and Cultural Changes ABSTRACT This paper will explores different ways which people can be helped and encouraged when coping with the necessary changes they must make after receiving a cancer diagnosis. It will explore what constitutes a caring, therapeutic environment; it will examine the resources available to the patient; and it will consider effective ways to assist the patient cope with the drastic changes and adjustments that they must make to accommodate their disease. INTRODUCTION Recently, I have been appointed as the lead facilitator of Houston’s ThyCa, a thyroid cancer support group where I will develop and execute my action plan. It will be my role as a proactive change agent to educate patients on how they can cope both with their disease and with the radical changes ravishing their body. People are terribly frighten by the unknown, but even more frightening is when people are coping with foreign cells or cancerous growth. If they are able to understand their illness through education, then they are less anxious or stressed. Al