Oncology Therapy Services

Mercy’s Therapy Services – physical, occupational and speech – play an important role for patients recovering from cancer treatment. We help you increase strength, control pain, manage daily living function, improve balance and elevate your overall quality of life as a cancer survivor.

Our teams most frequently see patients with breast, prostate and head and neck cancer. However, we work with any cancer diagnosis. Our specialized services address:

• Balance and gait problems
• Lymphedema
• Urinary incontinence
• Chemotherapy induced neuropathy
• Post-mastectomy pain syndrome
• Radiation fibrosis syndrome
• Headaches
• Pain, including musculoskeletal or neuropathic pain
• Weakness and fatigue, including the inability to perform daily living activities
• Speech and language disorders 
• Swallowing dysfunction
• Cognitive dysfunction

Like all members of your Mercy cancer treatment team, we focus on treating the complete person – body, mind and spirit. Our goal is to partner in your recovery so you can get back to being and feeling like you again.