The community contains the medicine of connection. Do you need tools to better connect with the community and ask for assistance? Some of these resources help you connect online and more directly with people giving help and heart through your journey. Family and friends can then better organize to give support in need.
Cancer Hope Network
1-800-552-4366
Matches cancer patients and/or family members with trained volunteers who have undergone and recovered from a similar cancer experience.
CarePages
Create websites as free patient blogs that connect friends and family during a health challenge.
CaringBridge
Create a free personal website to post your story, share updates, and allow your community to post messages in one place.
GiveForward
Empowers friends and family to provide emotional and financial support to loved ones while they navigate a medical crisis. A GiveForward page makes fundraising for out-of-pocket expenses like co-pays, travel and lodging, and alternative treatments easy.
Imerman Angels
Through their unique matching process, Imerman Angels partners anyone seeking cancer support with someone just like you – a “Mentor Angel”. A Mentor Angel is a cancer survivor or survivor’s caregiver who is the same age, same gender, and most importantly who has beaten the same type of cancer. Their service is absolutely free and helps anyone touched by any type of cancer, at any cancer stage level, at any age, living anywhere in the world.
I’m Too Young For This! Cancer Foundation
The nation’s largest support community for the next generation of patients, survivors, and caregivers between 15-40 offers an educational website, online forum, events, and a radio show.
Inspire
Join one or more than 50 groups for people with cancer and their caregivers, post questions and comments on the discussion boards, and connect with other group members.
Know Cancer
Provides an online social network through a blog, forum, and ask the experts section along with other educational resources.
Lotsa Helping Hands
Create a free of charge, private, web-based community to organize family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues—a family’s circles of community—during times of need. Coordinate activities and manage volunteers with our intuitive group calendar. Communicate and share information using announcements, message boards, and photos.
MyLifeLine
Create free personal websites to share updates, receive messages in one place, organize a calendar from doctor’s appointments to requests for help with tasks, post photos, and requests for donations from your community.
More Support
- Explore other related resources for support in Psychological Support for Cancer Patients and Caregivers.
- Consider getting a Cancer Coach to provide support in the journey to help improve quality of life, cancer survival, and cancer prevention.
