Toni Bernay Ph.D.: Porrath Foundation.Toni Bernay PhD, psychologist, is co-author (with her late husband, and renowned breast oncologist Dr. Saar Porrath) of the forthcoming book When It's Cancer-10 Essential Steps To Take After The Diagnosis. The book reveals Drs. Porrath and Bernay's inspirational story of how they and the cancer patients they cared for used a unique system to help them find more direction and guidance as they walked the cancer road. Dr. Bernay is president of the Porrath Foundation for Cancer Patient Advocacy Patient advocacy refers to speaking on behalf of a patient in order to protect their rights and help them obtain needed information and services. The role of patient advocate is frequently assumed by nurses, social workers, and other healthcare providers. , a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. founded by Dr. Bernay and her husband during his battle with plasma cell leukemia plasma cell leukemia n. A disease characterized by leukocytosis and other symptoms suggestive of leukemia and associated with diffuse infiltration and aggregation of plasma cells in the spleen, liver, bone marrow, and lymph nodes and by significant . With the goal of helping all cancer patients more effectively manage their disease, its treatments and a life now complicated by cancer, Drs. Porrath and Bernay developed The Personal Cancer Management System PCMS PCMS Purchase Card Management System PCMS Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site (Fort Carson, CO) PCMS Project Configuration Management System PCMS Patient Care Management System PCMS Passive Countermeasure System ) with its more than fifty tools and exercises. |
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