CANSA Care Centres

CANSA Toll Free Line Temporarily Down

10 September 2021: Due to our service provider, the CANSA Help Desk toll-free line (0800 22 66 22) is currently out of order. We are working on the problem and hope to be back up and running soon. See post for details of alternate numbers…

Video Interview with CANSA MLCCP Volunteer (isiZulu)

Sthabile Mtolo, CANSA Multinational Lung Cancer Control Program (MLCCP) Project Coordinator / Social Worker chats to Zandile Mathebula, CANSA MLCCP Volunteer from Chatsworth, Savannah Park. Read more about this exciting project: CANSA Highlights the Importance of Lung Cancer Awareness CANSA Participates in Lung Cancer Research with the University of KwaZulu-Natal

Mandela Day – CANSA Provides Relief to Cancer Patients

CANSA in support of Nelson Mandela International Day (18 July) and in line with its theme ‘One Hand Can Feed Another’, aims to help assist cancer patients by providing basic needs through food and care packages…

Vera SA Ostomy Underwear a Proud Partner of CANSA

Vera SA is excited to announce their recent partnership with CANSA and the inclusion of Vera’s ostomy men and women’s underwear range for stoma wearers (colostomy, urostomy or ileostomy) at CANSA Care Centres in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Durban, and Cape Town. Vera SA is giving CANSA 25% of sales done through CANSA.

Midmar 8 Mile Challenge for CANSA

4 March 2021: Twenty five swimmers will be participating in the Midmar 8 Mile Challenge for CANSA on the 11th and 12th March 2021. The 8 Mile Club was started in 2004 by Stan Kozlowski and Mervyn Bremner. The objective is to raise funds for various charities by swimming all 8 events at the aQuellé […]

CANSA Gauteng NorthWest Limpopo

How We Help You: Welcome to the CANSA Gauteng NorthWest Limpopo provincial landing page. Please contact your nearest Care Centre below for more information about how we can support you and your loved ones affected by cancer. Follow CANSA Gauteng NorthWest Limpopo provincial page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CANSAGautengNorthWestLimpopo CANSA Boksburg Care Centre: 071 808 4593 CANSA […]

HALO – ‘Helping A Little One’: Port Elizabeth to Cape Town Cycle Tour

As part of CANSA’s 90th anniversary celebrations this year, and to raise awareness about cancer affecting children, a group of cyclists known as the HALO ‘Helping A Little One’ Team, will cycle from Port Elizabeth to Cape Town and raise funds for CANSA TLC, which supports children with cancer.

CANSA 90th Lumo Virtual Walk / Run PE – 30 January 2021

Join us for the CANSA 90th Lumo Virtual Walk / Run PE – 30 January 2021

Let’s Gijima For CANSA Vaal – 20 February 2021

Let’s Gijima For CANSA Vaal – 20 February 2021

World Cancer Day – Prioritise Your Health

On World Cancer Day (WCD) 4 February, CANSA and Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) encourages people to set and achieve personal goals enabling them to lower cancer risk and for cancer patients to optimise health, especially in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been all consuming, however, cancer control needs to remain a priority.

Let’s Gijima For CANSA KZN – 7 February 2021

Let’s Gijima For CANSA KZN – 7 February 2021

CANSA KwaZulu-Natal

How We Help You: Welcome to the CANSA KwaZulu-Natal provincial landing page. Please contact your nearest Care Centre below for more information about how we can support you and your loved ones affected by cancer. Follow us on our provincial Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CANSAKwaZuluNatal/ CANSA Durban Care Centre: 619 Umbilo Road, Durban, 4001 P.O. Box 17173, […]

CANSA Shades of Pink powered by Davenport Square 31 Oct 2020

Video: CANSA Tele Counselling Service

CANSA Tele Counselling can be accessed via the CANSA Help Desk on 0800 22 66 22 toll free, to make an appointment with a CANSA counsellor. Or send an email to the Help Desk via counselling@cansa.org.za

Cancer Patients Thank CANSA Against Backdrop of COVID-19 Pandemic

CANSA has been hard at work to keep patients and loved ones supported during lockdown. Some of our patients and loved ones share how we have helped them recently and during lockdown.

CANSA Oudtshoorn Care Centre

How We Help You: Contact or visit us, we’d like to offer you & your loved ones care & support. 202 Langenhoven Road, Oudtshoorn Tel: 071 373 8750 Facebook: Like the CANSA Western Cape Facebook Page to keep up to date with our community education & screening programmes, care & support offering and for information […]

CANSA Springbok Virtual Care Centre

How We Help You: The CANSA Springbok Virtual Care Centre works remotely to offer services within the community in a streamlined and modern way. Employees and volunteers are home-based. Contact us, we’d like to offer you & your loved ones care & support. Tel: 079 174 2855 (Geraldine Farmer) | 0800 22 66 22 | […]

Wheels for Eastern Cape Cancer Patients

Thanks to a record number of more than 13 thousand participants at the 2019 Algoa FM Big Walk for Cancer, a new transporter vehicle was purchased for the CANSA Port Elizabeth Care Centre of the Cancer Association South African (CANSA). The vehicle will be used for patients that have come to Port Elizabeth from all […]

KANSA vra Oorwinnaars om die Goeie Nuus te deel en so ook Andere te Help

English Media Release 27 Mei 2020 – KANSA kon gedurende die grendeltyd aanhou om noodsaaklike dienste te voorsien aan kankerpasiënte, en nooi diegene wat deur die ondersteuning baat gevind het uit om ander ook te help gedurende die Internasionale Oorwinnaars Maand (Junie), deur te deel hoe KANSA hulle gehelp het, en ook ‘n donasie te […]

Where there is a Will there is a Way – and a Wig!

When #lockdown was first announced we knew that there would be certain limitations to the work that CANSA could, physically, continue with – such as supplying wigs to patients in need – however thanks to an incredible team effort, we were able to put a smile on a little patient’s face when she received her new wig during lockdown.

COVID-19 & NCDs

No matter the level of “lockdown,” evidence shows that people living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are at higher risk of severe complication if they contract COVID-19. As South Africa prepares to move to lockdown “light” at level 3, people living with NCDs (PLWNCDs) need to remain vigilant. CANSA, with input from the Heart and Stroke Foundation SA, Diabetes SA, National Kidney Foundation, Dementia SA and Education for Health Africa, has compiled infographics covering information to assist the public affected by non-communicable diseases and cancer…