Links Related to Cancer Survivorship

Support Programs and Services

American Cancer Society

• Road to Recovery: Provides transportation to and from treatment for people who have cancer who do not have a ride or are unable to drive themselves.
• Hope Lodge: Offers cancer patients and their caregivers a free, temporary place to stay when their best hope for effective treatment may be in another city.
• Online Communities and Support
• Reach to Recovery: Helps people (female and male) cope with their breast cancer experience through face-to-face visits or by phone.
• Man to Man: Helps men cope with prostate cancer by offering community-based education and support for patients and their family members.
• Look Good...Feel Better: Teaches female cancer patients beauty tips to look better and feel good about how they look during chemotherapy and radiation treatments.
• Look Good...Feel Better for Teens: Helps cancer patients ages 13 to 17 cope with how cancer treatment and side effects can change the way they look.

Cancercare

• Counseling by Professional Oncology Social Workers: Available over the telephone or in person in New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
• Support Groups: Online, by telephone, or face-to-face.
• Connect Education Workshops: Oncology experts provide information about various cancer topics in one-hour workshops over the telephone or online.
• Financial Assistance: Offers limited assistance for cancer-related costs, and helps you find resources.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

• Patient Financial Aid: Provides a limited amount of financial assistance to help patients with significant financial need who are under a doctor's care for a confirmed blood cancer diagnosis.
• Family Support Groups: Gives patients and their families a place to go where they can share information, education, and feelings in a comfortable and caring environment.

Patient Advocate Foundation

• Case Management: Helps patients with specific issues they are facing with their insurer, employer, and/or creditor regarding insurance, job retention, and/or debt crisis matters.
• Co-Pay Relief: Provides financial assistance to patients who meet certain qualifications to help them pay for the prescriptions and/or treatments they need.

Other Organizations

• Cancer Legal Resource Center: Provides free information and resources on cancer-related legal issues to cancer survivors, caregivers, health care professionals, employers, and others.
• Cancer Support Community Local Affiliates
• Patient and Liaison Services (PALS): A free information service for pancreatic cancer patients, their families, and health professionals.
• Sharing Hope Financial Assistance Program: Financial assistance for fertility preservation, including sperm banking and egg and embryo freezing.
• The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults offers patient navigation services and a peer mentor network.
• Us TOO International: Local chapters hold regular meetings for men living with prostate cancer and their families.

General Information

CDC

• Having Surgery? What You Should Know Before You Go
• Advance Care Planning: For You, For Your Family
• CDC's Cancer Survivorship Research

National Cancer Institute

• Survivorship-Related Statistics and Graphs
• Nutrition and Lifestyle in Cancer Survivors
• Coping with Cancer
• Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment
• Follow-up Care After Cancer Treatment
• Cancer Survivorship Research
• Eating Hints: Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment
• Taking Time: Support for People with Cancer
• Coping with Advanced Cancer
• When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer: Support for Caregivers
• Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer
• Cancer Trends Progress Report: Life After Cancer

Administration on Aging

• Just in Case: Emergency Readiness for Older Adults and Caregivers [PDF-612KB]
• Prescription Drug Options for Older Adults: Managing Your Medicines [PDF-315KB]
• Eldercare Locator

Food and Drug Administration

• Beware of Online Cancer Fraud
• Food Safety for People with Cancer

American Cancer Society

• Survivorship: During and After Treatment
• Talking About Cancer
• Cancer Survivors Network

Other

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Questions Are the Answer: Your Health Depends on Good Communication with Your Health Care Providers
• Federal Emergency Management Agency: Preparing Makes Sense for Older Americans. Get Ready Now.
• National Institutes of Health: Life After Cancer
• National Institute on Aging: Surviving Cancer
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission: Questions and Answers About Cancer in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act
• Transportation Security Administration: What to Expect If You Are a Breast Cancer Survivor

Explaining Cancer to Children

• National Cancer Institute: When Your Parent Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
• National Cancer Institute: When Your Brother or Sister Has Cancer: A Guide for Teens
• American Cancer Society: Helping Children When a Family Member Has Cancer
• University of Cincinnati: Health Library: Cancer

Research

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey - Cancer Self-Administered Questionnaire Pretest Reports for 2011 Survey Year

HHS HealthBeat Podcasts

• After the cancer
• Being active against breast cancer
• What's your supplement?
• Heart disease, breast cancer, and women
• Living with cancer
• Fears about breast cancer returning
• More cancer survivors
• Strong ties against breast cancer
• Breastfeeding and cancer survivors
• Actively living (prostate cancer)
• Weight training after breast cancer
• Breast cancer survival and limitations
• Have a health advocate
• Smoking during head and neck cancer treatment
• After childhood cancer, babies
• Lifestyle and a second breast cancer