Virginia R. Cvetko Patient Education Center

The Virginia R. Cvetko Patient Education Center is designed to help patients and their families understand and manage the challenges of cancer. The center offers spiritual and emotional support, pastoral care, a variety of educational resources, and general and site-specific support groups. The site-specific support groups address the needs of those individuals dealing with one particular type of cancer, such as breast, prostate or ovarian. Cancer services are provided for free by staff members and trained volunteers who are cancer survivors.

The center bears the name of cancer patient Virginia Cvetko, who understood the frustration, depression, and fear that can follow a cancer diagnosis. Virginia's belief that there is life and hope with cancer remains the center's guiding principle.

The Virginia R. Cvetko Patient Education and Conference Center is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday and is located in the basement of the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center.

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Resource Centers
To help you and your family learn about and cope with cancer, the Cvetko Center offers three resource areas on the Baylor campus. All three resource centers have Internet access for patients and family members.

• The Deborah Leah Kielman-Rodriguez Patient Education Library. Located in the basement of Sammons Cancer Center, this library offers books written about people's experiences with cancer and medical guides about cancer-even cookbooks about healthy eating during cancer treatment. These books, as well as videotapes, may be borrowed free of charge.
• The Patient/Family Room. Located on the sixth floor of Roberts Hospital, the family room offers educational and resource information.
• The Cvetko Center Patient Education and Resource Center Room. On 6-Collins you'll find information on breast cancer and women's health issues.