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Cancer support groups are meetings that offer a safe space for people affected by cancer to share their experiences and emotions with other people who have cancer. People in stressful situations benefit from having a good social support system, and a cancer support group can be part of a support system. Cancer support groups are similar to ...
The Cancer Support Community ( CSC) focuses on three areas of support: direct service delivery, research, and advocacy. The organization includes an international network of Affiliates that offer social and emotional support for people impacted by cancer, as well as a community of support available online and over the phone.
She created an online support group in her hometown of Atlanta for other women on their cancer journey — particularly Black women, ... a 44-year-old metastatic cancer survivor, was introduced to ...
Gilda's Club was founded by Joanna Bull, Radner's cancer psychotherapist and co-founded with Radner's widower, Gene Wilder (himself a cancer survivor) and broadcaster Joel Siegel (who would himself fight colon cancer until his death in 2007). [1] Joanna Bull started the project with just $10,000 and networked in the New York cancer support ...
SHARE is a "highly regarded New York City peer support" organization of women affected by breast or ovarian cancer. [1] SHARE is a professionally managed volunteer organization. Trained volunteers and staff who are breast or ovarian cancer survivors operate telephone hotlines in English, Spanish and ten other languages, lead support groups, and ...
State Sen. Anthony Bucco and Long Hill teen Grace Eline, both childhood cancer survivors, participated in a cancer roundtable in Washington, D.C.
Sharsheret (organization) Sharsheret is a nonprofit organization with the goal of supporting Jewish women diagnosed with breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Through its work and research efforts, Sharsheret provides healthcare resources, financial assistance, communal support, and educational programs to thousands of women and their families in ...
Y-ME was founded in 1978 by breast cancer patients Ann Marcou (1932–2004) [6] and Mimi Kaplan (d. 1983), [7] and began as a hotline operated out of Marcou's Chicago-area home and a support group that met at a local YWCA. [7]