"I don't know how to feel": coping strategies for life with cancer

RCSI MyHealth

The third episode in the RCSI MyHealth series 2024/2025, focusing on emotional well-being following a cancer diagnosis, took place as an in-person event at RCSI’s St Stephen’s Green campus in Dublin city centre earlier this month. The event featured healthcare providers and patient advocates who shared personal insights and coping strategies for life with cancer.

This episode is chaired by Dr Padraic Dunne, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Positive Health Sciences, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Panellists included:

• Dr Maria Pertl, Lecturer, Department of Health Psychology, School of Population Health, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences
• Dr Vicky Cooper Lunt, Principal Clinical Psychologist, Psycho-Oncology Service, Beaumont RCSI Cancer Centre
• Ms Corrinne Hasson, Director of Services, Irish Cancer Society

Two guest speakers also join the panel to share their personal experience of a cancer diagnosis and a cancer diagnosis of a family member:

• Dr Elysha Brennan, RCSI Alumna, Paediatrics SpR and 2015 Rose of Tralee
• Mr Alan McGovern, Patient and Family Advocate

For more information and links to useful resources, visit www.rcsi.com/myhealth