These cancers often require complex treatment plans involving surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, or a combination of all three. These treatments can impact your ability to speak, eat, breathe, digest, and move—and we’re here to help you through every step of your recovery. 

We take a gentle, personalized approach that honours the physical and emotional impact of your experience. Whether you are preparing for surgery, recovering from treatment, or adjusting to life in survivorship, our team offers expert care that’s tailored to your needs and goals. 

Our skilled team works with you to restore function, manage side effects, and improve your quality of life. We provide one-on-one care with a focus on: 

• Physiotherapy: Our team will help address postural changes, respiratory challenges, weakness, and fatigue. We will work together with you to improve your mobility, rebuild strength, and manage post-surgical complications such as restricted shoulder or neck movement, abdominal pain, or nerve sensitivity. 
• Pelvic Floor Physiotherapy: Pelvic health treatment at Ottawa Cancer and Lymphatics Centre will help support bowel and bladder changes due to abdominal or colorectal surgeries, chemotherapy, or pelvic radiation. We can assist you with incontinence, constipation, pelvic pain and more. 
• Massage Therapy: Massage offers gentle, targeted relief from muscular tension, post-surgical tightness, and treatment-related discomfort. It also promotes relaxation and can support lymphatic health. 
• Kinesiology: Customized movement plans to help you safely rebuild strength, endurance, and confidence in your body. We meet you where you’re at and help you return to daily activities with more ease. 
• Laser Therapy: Our laser system can be used for lymphedema management, scar fading, and treatment of neuropathy following chemotherapy or nerve trauma. 
• Scar Management: Our targeted treatments can reduce adhesions, improve mobility and skin comfort, and address changes following surgery or radiation in the neck, chest, or abdomen. 
• Dietetics: We offer expert nutritional counseling to manage treatment-related symptoms such as nausea, weight loss, difficulty swallowing, or changes in digestion and appetite. With custom meal planning and nutritional advice, we will be able to help you find a diet plan that meets your goals and needs, no matter the phase of treatment/survivorship you’re in. 
• Psychotherapy: The mental health team at Ottawa Cancer and Lymphatics provides safe, confidential support to address the emotional toll of diagnosis, altered appearance or function, and survivorship. We work with you to process grief, anxiety, or trauma in a supportive, non-judgmental space. 
• Acupuncture: (Coming soon!) May be used to manage nausea, fatigue, neuropathy, and stress. 

Helping You Recover from a Wide Range of Treatments

We support clients undergoing or recovering from: 

• Neck dissections, thyroidectomy, laryngectomy, or glossectomy 
• Lobectomy, pneumonectomy, or esophagectomy 
• Colectomy, gastrectomy, liver resection, or Whipple procedure 
• Radiation to the head/neck, thorax, or abdomen 
• Chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy 

We understand that ENT, thoracic, and abdominal cancers can be deeply disruptive to your daily life—and that recovery requires care for your whole self. We’re here to help restore your comfort, function, and sense of self. 

Let us help you feel stronger, more confident, and more at home in your body. At Ottawa Cancer and Lymphatics Centre, your healing journey matters to us.