| CancerConnect.com |
Cancer Connect provides current, comprehensive, authoritative information on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of cancer and a community where patients can exchange information and get support and inspiration. |
| AWomansHealth.com |
Featuring in-depth healthy living articles, community, Women magazine features, news, and website exclusives that are easily accessible, creating the most in-depth women’s health resource available today. |
| ByMySide.com |
Designed to help you stay in control during treatment, “By My Side” offers simple steps you can take right from the start to manage, lessen, or (in some cases) prevent the side-effects of chemotherapy. |
| CanCare,Inc. |
CanCare matches trained cancer survivor volunteers and caregivers to newly diagnosed cancer patients or their caregivers for free, one-on-one, long term emotional support. Clients are matched as closely as possible by age, gender, type of cancer and treatment. |
| CancerTogether |
CancerTogether is about giving face and voice to the stories and experiences of people affected by cancer. Offers those who are living or have lived with cancer an opportunity to share their hard-earned wisdom and insight– with the added power that comes from seeing and hearing someone tell their story. Their educational and inspirational videos are available on their website and other electronic media. |
| Cancer Care, Inc. |
Provides free professional counseling, support groups, education and information, and referrals to cancer patients and their families to help them cope with the psychological and social consequences of cancer. |
| Cancer Hope Network |
Offers free, confidential one-to-one support to cancer patients undergoing cancer treatment and their families using trained volunteers who have undergone a similar experience. |
| Chemotherapy.com |
A comprehensive online resource for understanding chemotherapy treatment and the management of side effects. |
| Cycle of Hope |
Cycle of Hope is designed to help support early cancer detection, to reduce fear associated with treatment, to encourage a team approach, and to foster hope in patients and their families fighting the disease. |
| Gilda’s Club Worldwide |
International network where men, women and children with cancer and their families and friends join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care in a free nonresidential home-like setting. All kinds and stages of cancer are welcome in 14 locations open worldwide. |
| International Cancer Alliance |
ICARE is a non-profit alliance of researchers, physicians and patients working together to promote substantive, understandable information programs on advanced treatment options. |
| Lance Armstrong Foundation |
Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people living with, through and beyond cancer. Activities focus on survivorship resources and support, groundbreaking survivorship programs, national advocacy initiatives, and scientific and clinical research grants. |
| Mesothelioma Cancer Center |
The Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center is a comprehensive resource for victims of asbestos related cancer. MAA Center provides up-to-date information on mesothelioma treatment options, clinical trials, cancer centers, exposure awareness, and more. |
| National Cancer Institute |
NCI is the U.S. government agency responsible for conducting and supporting research on cancer. Their site provides information about treatment, clinical trials, and supportive care. |
| National Cancer Survivors Day (NCSD) Foundation |
The Foundation provides education, legal counseling and referrals to cancer patients and survivors concerning managed care, insurance, financial issues, job discrimination and debt crisis matters. |
| National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship |
Patient-led organization advocating on behalf of survivors of all types of cancer. |
| Patient Advocate Foundation Colorectal CareLine |
Patient Advocate Foundation’s Colorectal CareLine is a patient/provider hotline that provides education and access to care to patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The Colorectal CareLine also offers financial aid for eligible patients through the Financial Aid Fund.
For more information about the PAF Colorectal CareLine, visit www.colorectalcareline.org. |
| R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc. |
The Cancer Hotline matches newly diagnosed with someone who has survived the same cancer. Offers free information, lists of Multidisciplinary Second Opinion Centers and free books: Fighting Cancer, Cancer… There’s Hope and Guide for Cancer Supporters. |
| Ronald McDonald House |
Offers a refuge from the hospital, a “home-away-from-home.” |
| Mesothelioma |
Mesothelioma Cancer Center was created in 1995 and has the most comprehensive information on asbestos exposure & mesothelioma and is the leading web authority on mesothelioma treatment and pleural mesothelioma. |
| The Oley Foundation |
Provides free information and psychosocial support to patients fed by tube or IV at home who cannot be sustained by normal eating because part of their gastrointestinal tract is damaged or removed. However, it does not provide financial support or oral nutrition counseling. |
| The Wellness Community |
Provides free of charge professionally led support groups nationwide and education, stress management and social networking in a home-like community setting with a focus on enhancing health and well-being. Twenty-two facilities nationwide. |
| Vital Options International TeleSupport Cancer Network |
The Group Room Radio Talk Show, a weekly syndicated call-in cancer talk show linking callers with other patients, long-term survivors, family members, physicians, researchers and therapists. |
