Cancer Survivor Resources
The Kansas Cancer Partnership (KCP) strives to make the links shared on this website as timely and accurate as possible. However, KCP does not endorse any of the providers listed here. The information contained in the Cancer Survivor Resource list is thought to be reliable but is not guaranteed to be accurate. It is compiled from provider descriptions of their own services as well as other public data sources and is subject to change without further notice. We do periodically review each link to ensure that it functions and is beneficial. However, if you come across a broken or less than helpful link, please send it as well as any other feedback to kdhe.cancerkansas@ks.gov.
Disclaimer: The information offered on this site should not be considered medical guidance or professional advice. Visitors are encouraged to confirm the information contained herein with other reliable sources and to direct any questions concerning their personal health to licensed physicians or other appropriate health care professionals.
Statewide
Advance Care Planning
Camps
Camp Erin – Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care
Camp Erin® Kansas City Family Camp is a free bereavement camp for youth who are grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. Families with children and teens ages 6 to 17 attend a day or weekend camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, traditional camp activities.
Camp Kesem
Kesem offers a broad range of free programs and services to support children affected by a parent’s cancer. Our flagship program, Camp Kesem, is a week-long, sleep-away summer camp. Throughout the year, families receive ongoing communication and acknowledgments, including birthday cards and welcome packages, and participate in Friends + Family Days activities.
Camp KyMel
Camp for children who have had cancer, free transportation from Kansas City, Wichita & Topeka, and a camp just for the sibling of a cancer patient, Virtual Children’s camp. Can participate from home or hospital.
Camp Quality USA
Camp Quality serves children with cancer and their families by providing year-round programs, experiences, and companionship, at no cost. Camp Quality promotes hope and inspiration while helping children foster life skills and develop their full potential.
Career
United Way
United Way seeks to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.
Caregiver Support
American Cancer Society
Articles, guides and videos on what to expect when you are a caregiver.
Cancer Support Community (Gilda’s Club)
Online platform with webinar series on being a cancer caregiver, as well articles and resources.
Caregiver Action Network (CAN)
CAN (the National Family Caregivers Association EIN 52-1780405) is a non-profit organization providing education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.
CaringBridge
CaringBridge allows you to create a secure, personalized website for your loved one that’s available 24/7. You, your family and friends can easily share messages and photos during your loved one’s hospital stay and beyond. You will be able to keep everyone informed during those times when you need each other most.
Family Caregiver Alliance
The NCC serves as a central source of information on caregiving and long-term care issues and works to advance policies and programs for caregivers in every state in the country.
Turning Point
Programs to empower and transform the mind, body and spirit of patients and their caregivers who are facing serious and chronic physical illnesses. Programs are designed to heal and inform and cover topics like nutrition, body movement, practical matters and managing stress and anxiety.
Young Adult Caregiver Support Group (Cancer Care)
Free, 15-week online support group for people ages 20-39 who have a loved one diagnosed with cancer. In this group led by an oncology social worker, people can share their personal experiences, ways of coping and helpful resources. Online support groups take place using a password-protected message board format (not live chat or video conference).
Clinical Trials
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
Informative site that helps to answer your basic and complex questions about clinical trials, with options to hear personal stories and online sources to assist with locating a clinical trial.
Financial
Andrew J. Somora Foundation
Financial assistance to persons in financial need who are battling colon cancer as well as their family members, who are receiving treatment in the Kansas City Area.
Kansas Children’s Foundation
Kansas Children’s Foundation (formerly Wesley Children’s Foundation) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial support to children and families across the state of Kansas. We are here to alleviate some of the financial burden through Individual Assistance to make life a little less stressful so families can focus on the health and well-being of their child. ELIGIBILITY Any child in the state of Kansas, under the care of a medical provider, is eligible for Individual Assistance.
LLS
Dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancers, we are not The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world’s largest voluntary (nonprofit) health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services.
Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK)
Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK) is a free program offering Kansans an opportunity to talk with trained, community volunteers and get answers to questions about Medicare and other insurance issues.
Wichita Cancer Foundation
Pays for up to six months of insurance premiums for those that qualify. Open only to Kansas residents.
Grief
Gilda’s Club Kansas City
Provides free counseling and support groups free of cost to anyone who has had a loved one die from cancer.
Solace House Center for Grief and Healing
Solace House is a Community Center for Grief and Healing, designed to be a nurturing place to guide children and adults through the difficult time following a death, whether sudden and unexpected or anticipated. Virtual support groups and therapy is also offered.
Insurance
Cover Kansas
The Health Insurance Marketplace (or Exchange) is for people who don’t have coverage through a job, Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or another source that provides qualifying health coverage. Free assistance is available from a certified Navigator.
Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK)
Senior Health Insurance Counseling for Kansas (SHICK) is a free program offering Kansans an opportunity to talk with trained, community volunteers and get answers to questions about Medicare and other insurance issues.
Wichita Cancer Foundation
Pays for up to six months of insurance premiums for those that qualify. Open only to Kansas residents.
LGBTQ+
Colorectal Cancer and LGBTTQQIAAP Community
Information about lifestyle, challenges, support groups, and blogs that touch on colorectal cancer in the LGBT community.
Escape
We are a grassroots organization learning and working to best serve adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. Our goal is to provide equitable resources and support to those most overlooked in cancer care. We exist to highlight the voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual, plus (LGBTQIA+) folx and cultivate an environment that is safe for self-expression within the cancer community.
Lesbian Cancer Survivors and Caregivers
This is a support group for cis, trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming lesbians, bisexual women, and women-loving women who have now or have ever had cancer or who are caring for now or have cared for someone with cancer.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
Young Survival Coalition
Virtual hangouts for young adults affected by Breast Cancer.
Nutrition
Double Up Food Bucks
Double Up Food Bucks matches your SNAP EBT dollars so you get twice the fruits and veggies.
SNAP – Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program
The Food Assistance Program serves as the first line of defense against hunger. It provides crucial support to elderly households, to low-income working households, to other low-income households that include the unemployed or disabled and to households transitioning from welfare to work. Food assistance customers can spend their benefits to buy eligible nutritious food and plants and seeds to grow food for their household to eat.
Peer to Peer
LLS
Dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancers, we are not The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world’s largest voluntary (nonprofit) health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services.
Prostate Network
We invite all survivors, partners, and those helping in the fight to join us.
Physical Activity/Wellness
Prostate Network
We invite all survivors, partners, and those helping in the fight to join us.
Smoking Cessation
KanQuit
KanQuit is the State of Kansas Tobacco Quitline. It is available 24/7 as a telephone resource to help people in Kansas quit tobacco. Trained counselors can help through telephone counseling. People can sign up on the website or by calling.
Masonic Cancer Alliance Tobacco Cessation Program
The MCA has free Zoom based classes that meet weekly and a texting program to help users get ready to quit and stay quit from tobacco. Sign up today!
Transportation/Lodging
Angel Charity Network
Provides access for people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities or distant destinations due to family, community or national crisis.
Angel Flight Central
Angel Flight Central (AFC) is a volunteer non-profit organization whose mission it is to “Serve people in need by arranging charitable flights for health care or other humanitarian purposes.”
Be the Match (National Marrow Donor Network)
Be the Match serves patients in need of life-saving bone marrow or umbilical cord blood transplants. Funds are available for unrelated donor searches and post-transplant expenses, including co-pays, lodging, food and transportation.
LLS
Dedicated to curing leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and other blood cancers, we are not The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world’s largest voluntary (nonprofit) health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research and providing education and patient services.
Miracle Travel Works
Help for children birth through 18 years of age with travel as they undergo urgent medical treatments.
University of Kansas Transportation Center
Kansas Transit provider directory and map.
Wigs/Prosthetics
Missys’ Boutique
Missys’ Boutique features inviting retail space, a salon area and a private fitting room. In a comfortable setting, cancer patients and survivors can consult with a licensed professional, receive services and select products created just for them.
Northeast Kansas
Advance Care Planning
Camps
Camp Erin – Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care
Camp Erin® Kansas City Family Camp is a free bereavement camp for youth who are grieving the death of a significant person in their lives. Families with children and teens ages 6 to 17 attend a day or weekend camp experience that combines grief education and emotional support with fun, traditional camp activities.
Caregiver Support
Cancer Support Community (Gilda’s Club)
Online platform with webinar series on being a cancer caregiver, as well articles and resources.
Children Support
Gilda’s Club Kansas City
Provides free counseling and support groups to children and teens.
Turning Point
Turning Point is a center to meet, listen, share, learn and encourage. Our research-based programs foster practical skills that increase resilience and the ability to bend without breaking.
Camp Erin
Supported by grants and donations from people who share a common interest in providing support for grieving children and teens.
Solace House
Provides grief counseling and support free of charge to families, funded by support from donors throughout the community.
Stupid Cancer
Helps to empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult cancer by ending isolation and building community.
Counseling/Support Groups
Cancer Action KC
We help individuals and family members navigate a positive cancer journey.
Gilda’s Club Kansas City
To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
Livestrong Greater KC
LIVESTRONG at the YMCA, a small-group program developed and established in partnership with the LIVESTRONG Foundation, assists those who are living with, through, or beyond cancer to strengthen their spirit, mind and body.
Miami County Cancer Foundation
Linking Miami County Residents battling cancer with available resources.
Prostate Network
Prostate Network’s mission is to support survivors and enable men to educate the public on importance of early detection to help save men’s lives.
Turning Point
We offer classes, programs and tools that empower and inspire people affected by chronic or serious illness.
Fertility
Vitality Holistic Medicine
Assistance with enhancing fertility and healthy options toward the ability to conceive.
Financial
Cancer Action, Inc.
Financial assistance programs are available to persons who are having financial distress due to their cancer diagnosis. A financial assessment will be completed to determine eligibility.
The Race Against Breast Cancer
Pays for a range of screening/diagnostic mammography services who live and work in Northeast Kansas.
Grief
Crossroads Hospice & Palliative Care
Offers grief recovery programs to the Greater Kansas City, MO area.
Gilda’s Club Kansas City
Provides free counseling and support groups free of cost to anyone who has had a loved one die from cancer.
Solace House Center for Grief and Healing
Solace House is a Community Center for Grief and Healing, designed to be a nurturing place to guide children and adults through the difficult time following a death, whether sudden and unexpected or anticipated. Virtual support groups and therapy is also offered.
LGBTQ+
Peace Church UCC
Peace Church is an Open and Affirming congregation. As Christians, we joyfully welcome into God’s house all people, celebrating our diversity in race, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identities, gender expression, nationality, faith background, education, and abilities.
Southwood United Church of Christ
Believing in the essential ONEness of creation, Southwood UCC affirms the fundamental unity of all people, local and global, as well as our ONEness with creation itself. All people are connected, regardless of socio-economic class, race, or nationality.
Peer to Peer
Prostate Network
We invite all survivors, partners, and those helping in the fight to join us.
Physical Activity/Wellness
Livestrong Atchison – YMCA
Participants work with Y staff trained in supportive cancer care to safely achieve their goals such as building muscle mass and strength, increasing flexibility and endurance and improving confidence and self-esteem.
Livestrong Olathe – YMCA
The Olathe Family YMCA provides important programs that give people of all ages the opportunity to connect with others, learn new skills and achieve greater well-being. Cardio and strength training units, an indoor pool, outdoor basketball court and kids zone are just a few of the amenities offered to members. The Olathe Y also offers food programs to address food insecurity.
Screening
The Race Against Breast Cancer
The Race Against Breast Cancer Inc. (RABC) was established to pay for a full range of screening / diagnostic mammography services to those who live and work in Northeast Kansas counties (Atchison, Brown, Doniphan, Douglas, Jackson, Jefferson, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Shawnee and Wabaunsee) who are in need of financial assistance.
Smoking Cessation
Masonic Cancer Alliance Tobacco Cessation Program
The MCA has Zoom based classes that meet weekly and a texting program to help users get ready to quit and stay quit from tobacco. They also have a texting program to support people as they quit.
Transportation/Lodging
American Cancer Society – Hope Lodge
An American Cancer Society Hope Lodge offers cancer patients and their families a free, temporary place to stay when their best hope for effective treatment may be in another city. It provides a nurturing, homelike environment where patients and caregivers can retreat to private rooms or connect.
Wigs/Prosthetics
Missys’ Boutique
Missys’ Boutique features inviting retail space, a salon area and a private fitting room. In a comfortable setting, cancer patients and survivors can consult with a licensed professional, receive services and select products created just for them.
North Central Kansas
Counseling/Support Groups
Survivors and Friends
Support for adult survivors or those suffering from cancer, their families and friends.
Financial
Cancer Center of Reno County
Providing services to people and families affected by cancer in Reno County.
Transportation/Lodging
Lincoln County Public Transportation
For anyone residing in Lincoln County. Monday-Friday 8-5. No holidays or weekends.
OCCK Public Transportation for Salina and North Central Kansas
Free transportation through Med-A-Van Services to any Salina Regional Health Center affiliated location for patients traveling from Clay, Cloud, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Jewell, Mitchell, Lincoln, Marion, McPherson, Osborne, Ottawa, Republic, Saline and Smith Counties.
Ottawa County Public Transportation
Available for Ottawa County Residents. Monday through Friday 8a-5p. Call to schedule.
Northwest Kansas
Camps
Kamp KyMel
Camp for children who have had cancer, free transportation from Kansas City, Wichita & Topeka, and a camp just for the sibling of a cancer patient, Virtual Children’s camp. Can participate from home or hospital.
Financial
Cancer Council of Ellis County
The Cancer Council of Ellis County (CCEC) provides services to individuals and families affected by cancer. The CCEC provides financial assistance, nutritional supplements, equipment loans, and educational materials.
Circle of Hope
The Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group provides: Financial assistance, Resource information, Sharing and caring group meeting, Free mammograms (age 35-64 that have no insurance or high premium), Encourages early detection and prevention programs.
Northwest Kansas Foundation of HOPE
It is our goal to Help Offset Patient’s Expenses, for local families afflicted with cancer. Northwest Kansas Foundation for HOPE supports families in Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace counties.
Transportation/Lodging
Be Our Guest
Lodging is available for patients who live outside of Hays and who are receiving outpatient services at Hays Medical Center. The Be Our Guest program offers an overnight stay at a select hotel at the price of only $20.00/night. Patients may use this program the night before, or the day they are dismissed from having an outpatient test, procedure or inpatient stay.
South Central Kansas
Advance Care Planning
Wichita Medical Research and Education Foundation
Complete list of Advance Directive forms.
Camps
Camp Quality USA
Camp Quality serves children with cancer and their families by providing year-round programs, experiences, and companionship, at no cost. Camp Quality promotes hope and inspiration while helping children foster life skills and develop their full potential.
Caregiver Support
Club Hope, Survivor 2.0
Offered monthly for caregivers of cancer survivors, this program provides a place for them to share and find support as they take on the important role of caregiving for their loved ones.
Counseling/Support Groups
Livestrong Wichita – YMCA
Participants work with Y staff trained in supportive cancer care to safely achieve their goals such as building muscle mass and strength, increasing flexibility and endurance and improving confidence and self-esteem.
Us Too
Assist individuals with information about Prostate Cancer and be of intellectual and emotional support to men diagnosed with this disease and those supporting them.
Club Hope, Survivor 2.0
Offered monthly for caregivers of cancer survivors, this program provides a place for them to share and find support as they take on the important role of caregiving for their loved ones.
LGBTQ+
LGBT+ Wichita Health Coalition
The Wichita LGBT-Friendly Provider Directory is a local listing of healthcare providers who deliver competent services and understand the unique health concerns of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. All providers in this directory have agreed to be listed.
Lymphedema
American Cancer Society – Survivorship
Fittings for compression/garments/lymphedema products/mastectomy products.
Physical Activity/Wellness
Club Hope, Survivor 2.0
Free to survivors, programs that focus on physical fitness, and healthy living.
Transportation/Lodging
Victory in the Valley, Inc.
Support, assistance and encouragement to cancer patients/survivors and families.
Wichita Transit-Para Transit
The paratransit service is available to individuals who cannot use regular bus services due to physical or mental disabilities covered under The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Wigs/Prosthetics
All About Her Bras – Lisa Wayne (BOC certified fitter)
Victory in the Valley, Inc.
Support, assistance and encouragement to cancer patients/survivors and families.
Southeast Kansas
Camps
Camp Kesem
Kesem offers a broad range of free programs and services to support children affected by a parent’s cancer. Our flagship program, Camp Kesem, is a week-long, sleep-away summer camp. Throughout the year, families receive ongoing communication and acknowledgments, including birthday cards and welcome packages, and participate in Friends + Family Days activities.
Financial
Breast Cancer Foundation of the Ozarks
BCFO provides short-term non-medical financial assistance to those in active treatment for breast cancer in Labette, Crawford, and Cherokee counties in Southeast Kansas.
Southwest Kansas
Counseling/Support Groups
Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group
The Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group is a self-help non-profit group for all types of cancer patients and their caregivers.
Financial
Circle of Hope
The Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group provides: Financial assistance, Resource information, Sharing and caring group meeting, Free mammograms (age 35-64 that have no insurance or high premium), Encourages early detection and prevention programs.
Leave a Legacy Foundation
The Leave a Legacy Foundation’s mission is to strengthen the cancer fighting resources in southwest Kansas. Greatest Needs Fund available to help patients in need.
Pheasant Heaven Charities
Assist individuals with catastrophic medical needs and benefit other organizations throughout our region.
Lymphedema
Lymph Notes
Physical therapy, pain management, graduated exercises/strength training, fatigue management and lymphedema.
Transportation/Lodging
Benincasa House
To provide a safe, comfortable, peaceful shelter that reflects a caring Christian environment, promoting the physical, emotional and financial welfare of our guests. First come, first serve.
National
Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA)
Elephants and Tea
A National publication focused on adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients, survivors, and caregivers know they are not alone in their experience with cancer. The Elephant in the room is cancer. Tea is the relief conversation provides.
Youth Adult Cancer Camp
Young Adult Survivors United is a health and wellness community for young adult cancer survivors and caregivers/co-survivors to thrive from emotional, social, and financial support. Virtual programs are available nationwide.
Advance Care Planning
CaringInfo
During serious illness, CaringInfo is here to help you make informed decisions about care and services before a crisis.
Center for Practical Bioethics
The Center for Practical Bioethics has tools for helping people plan how to make their end of life wishes known.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
NHPCO provides its members with the essential tools they need to stay current with leading practices, understand policy changes, and improve their quality of care. With resources that address the challenges providers navigate on a daily basis, NHPCO offers a wealth of expert knowledge and step-by-step solutions to fill the gaps.
Apps (information coming soon)
Camps
Camp Keepsake
A program which offers a cost-free camp retreat for adult cancer patients/survivors, their children and friends.
Camp Mak-A-Dream
Women Beyond Cancer is an organization that hosts retreats for women dealing with ANY type of cancer. If you are one-year post-treatment and the idea of getting away from it all at a horse farm resonates with you, a retreat at Two Sisters Farm may just be the ticket.
Camp Quality USA
Camp Quality serves children with cancer and their families by providing year-round programs, experiences, and companionship, at no cost. Camp Quality promotes hope and inspiration while helping children foster life skills and develop their full potential.
Camp Sunshine
“Free” year-round camp programs for multiple diagnoses for the whole family in Casco, Maine.
The Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation
Helping young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 16 & 30 connect with each other through peer support groups and cancer camps. We want to make it simple for young adults with cancer to find and utilize our website with links to all social support available to them. If travel expenses are not covered by the camp of support group our foundation will fund that amount.
Elephants and Tea
A National publication focused on adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients, survivors, and caregivers know they are not alone in their experience with cancer. The Elephant in the room is cancer. Tea is the relief conversation provides.
Faces of Courage
A support organization, dedicated to providing, free of charge, programs emphasizing practical education; life coping strategies; and improved self-esteem; recreational outings, and overnight camps, with a primary goal of helping the cancer patient navigate their way through the treatment process and to thrive as a survivor.
First Descents, out living it
First Descents is a recognized leader in outdoor experiential programming. Through outdoor adventures, skills development, and local adventure communities FD improves the long-term survivorship of young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions.
Harmony Hill
3-day wellness retreat for adult cancer survivors and those living with cancer, as well as their loved ones.
Hole in the Wall Gang Camp
The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp provides “a different kind of healing” to children with serious illnesses and their families through year-round programs celebrating the fun, friendship and spirit of childhood.
Image Reborn Foundation
Image Reborn Foundation’s mission is to provide no-cost renewal retreats to women diagnosed with breast cancer and to assist them in living rich and fulfilling lives.
Kids Cancer Alliance
Kids Cancer Alliance now proudly offers oncology and sibling camps, teen and family retreats, quarterly events, in-hospital programs, as well as financial support — all completely free to children with cancer and their families.
Reel Recovery
Helps men in the cancer recovery process by introducing them to the healing powers of the sport of fly-fishing, while providing a safe, supportive environment to explore their personal cancer experiences with others who share their stories.
River Discovery
Outdoor adventures for cancer survivors that promote healing and strengthening of the mind, body and spirit.
SeriousFun Children’s Network
To create opportunities for children and their families to reach beyond serious illness and discover joy, confidence, and a new world of possibilities, always free of charge.
Special Love, for Children with Cancer
Special Love provides a strong, nurturing environment for children with cancer and their families through its free camps and getaway weekends, emergency financial assistance, and educational scholarships for young adults who have beaten cancer and now want to move on with their lives.
Women Beyond Cancer
Women Beyond Cancer is an organization that hosts retreats for women dealing with ANY type of cancer. If you are one-year post-treatment and the idea of getting away from it all at a horse farm resonates with you, a retreat at Two Sisters Farm may just be the ticket.
Youth Adult Cancer Camp
Young Adult Survivors United is a health and wellness community for young adult cancer survivors and caregivers/co-survivors to thrive from emotional, social, and financial support. Virtual programs are available nationwide.
Cancer Data (information coming soon)
Career
Disability Rights Legal Center
An advocacy organization that champions the civil rights of people with disabilities as well as those affected by cancer and other serious illness.
Cancer and Careers
Cancer and Careers is dedicated to empowering and educating people with cancer to thrive in their workplace by providing expert advice, interactive tools and education events via their comprehensive website, free publications, career coaching, and a series of support groups and educational seminars for employees with cancer and their healthcare providers and coworkers.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
Caregiver Support
AIM at Melanoma Foundation
AIM at Melanoma is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support.
American Psychosocial Oncology Society (APOS)
Connect cancer patients and their caregivers to psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and counselors skilled in the management of cancer- related distress/psychosocial issues.
CancerCare
Support groups. Search by diagnosis or by topic to find the one for you.
Caregiver Action
Provide education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.
Chemocare.com
Provide education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.
Colorectal Cancer Alliance
Support for patients and families, caregivers, and survivors.
Family Caregiver Alliance
A public voice for caregivers – provides information on topics such as care strategies, stress relief, community resources, family issues and hands-on care.
I Had Cancer
Our mission is to empower anyone who has been affected by cancer. We provide our members with the ability to connect and share personal experiences about cancer with others who really understand. Our community engages all who are involved in an individual’s cancer fight: the survivors, fighters, supporters and caregivers.
Imerman Angels
Imerman Angels’ mission is to provide comfort and understanding for all cancer fighters, survivors, previvors and caregivers through a personalized, one-on-one connection with someone who has been there.
Lotsa Helping Hands
Offers free online tools designed to make life easier for caregivers and volunteers.
MyLifeLine.org
Easily connect cancer patients and caregivers with friends and family in order to reduce stress, anxiety and isolation, by creating your own private website, our goal is to help you find hope, regain control, document your journey, and receive social, emotional, and practical support from friends and family throughout the treatment process and beyond.
National Cancer Institute, Cancer Information Service
Offers free, credible, and comprehensive information about cancer prevention and screening, diagnosis and treatment, research across the cancer spectrum, clinical trials, and news and links to other NCI websites.
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
NHPCO provides its members with the essential tools they need to stay current with leading practices, understand policy changes, and improve their quality of care. With resources that address the challenges providers navigate on a daily basis, NHPCO offers a wealth of expert knowledge and step-by-step solutions to fill the gaps.
OncoLink.org
OncoLink provides tools and educational materials to support the practice of busy practitioners, including on treatment education, psychosocial support, and survivorship care plans. These create a one-stop-shop for patient education, enabling more impactful patient interactions, improving patient-provider communication. provider of oncology education. We support patients, caregivers, and healthcare providers by providing up-to-date, evidence-based cancer education that addresses needs from risk assessment through diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship. At the heart of our mission is providing this education free of charge to enable patients and caregivers to make educated treatment decisions and to become active participants in their care.
Open to Hope
A website where people can share inspirational stories of loss and love. We encourage our visitors to read, listen and share their stories of hope and compassion.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
Young Survival Coalition
The Young Survival Coalition’s robust online discussion boards connect survivors and caregivers around critical issues unique to young women who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
ZERO Prostate Cancer
For more than 25 years, ZERO Prostate Cancer has helped people and families impacted by prostate cancer. ZERO is the primary destination for all impacted by the disease to convene, get support and education, and come together as one united voice to create a better future for the prostate cancer community.
Children Support
American Cancer Society
When children learn that a family member or someone they know has cancer, it can be upsetting and confusing for them. Here we will try to help you understand what children might be thinking and feeling, how to talk to them, and share some ideas on how you may be able to help them through this time.
Chai Lifeline
Chai Lifeline believes that seriously ill children need and deserve a happy and normal a childhood as possible. Programs include: Camp Simcha, professional case management, learning programs, family retreats, insurance support service, wish granting, sibling support, and community services such as volunteer training.
Childhood Leukemia Foundation
This site offers a range of free services, including kid-friendly hats with human hair, gift baskets, gift cards, financial aid, and sponsorships to pediatric-oncology summer camps.
Children’s Oncology Camping Association (COCA)
COCA’s mission is to strengthen, support and connect the international community of camps serving individuals and families affected by childhood cancer. In 1982, C.O.C.A., Children’s Oncology Camps of America was founded by a dozen pioneer oncology camps.
Children’s Oncology Group (COG)
National Cancer Institute-supported clinical trials group, is the world’s largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.
Cool Kids Campaign
Directly impact children fighting cancer through academic, social, and emotional programming.
Double H Ranch
The Double H Ranch, located in New York’s Adirondack Park, is a demonstration of the commitment and generosity of philanthropist Charles R. Wood and actor Paul Newman. Since the Double H officially opened its doors on July 4, 1993, it has served over 80,000 children dealing with life-threatening illnesses from around the world. It was the second “Hole in the Wall Camp” in what has become a worldwide network of not-for-profit recreational and therapeutic experiences for children with serious illness, called the SeriousFun Children’s Network.
Eagle Mount
Eagle Mount Bozeman is committed to provide quality adaptive recreation and sport opportunities for people with disabilities and young people impacted by cancer, and to provide support for families of participants, so that “they shall mount up with wings as eagles.”
First Descents
Through outdoor adventures, skills development, and local adventure communities FD improves the long-term survivorship of young adults impacted by cancer and other serious health conditions. Our participants experience free outdoor adventure programs that empower them to climb, paddle, and surf beyond their diagnosis, reclaim their lives and connect with others doing the same.
Friends of Scott Foundation
Mission is to ensure that our children and their families get the emotional and financial support needed to cope with this disease.
Life Hunts
Grants hunting wishes for critically ill and disabled youth aged 21 and under.
Making Headway Foundation
Care and comfort for children with brain and spinal cord tumors while funding medical research geared to better treatments and a cure. Today, Making Headway carries on with our unique work, offering a continuum of services that includes individual counseling, educational advocacy, in-hospital quality-of-life programs, scholarships, fun family events, medical research grants, facilitating clinical trials, neuro-oncology fellowships, and so much more.
Victory Junction
Providing life-changing experiences for children with serious illnesses, always at no cost to their families.
Zichron Shlome Refuah Fund
Support for the financial, emotional and practical needs of the patients and their families.
Clinical Trials
National Cancer Institute
Clinical trials are research studies that involve people. Any time you or a loved one need treatment for cancer, clinical trials are an option to think about. Learning all you can about clinical trials can help you talk with your doctor and decide what is right for you.
National Institutes of Health
Informative site that helps to answer your basic and complex questions about clinical trials, with options to hear personal stories and online sources to assist with locating a clinical trial.
National Library of Medicine
A website and online database of clinical research studies and their results.
ResearchMatch
ResearchMatch is a nonprofit program funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It helps to connect people interested in research studies with researchers from top medical centers across the U.S.
Cognitive Dysfunction “Chemo Brain”
American Cancer Society
Doctors and researchers may call chemo brain many things, such as cancer treatment-related cognitive impairment, cancer-related cognitive change, or post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment. The word “cognitive” refers to the way your brain works to help you communicate, think, learn, solve problems, and remember.
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Comprehensive information for people with cancer, families, and caregivers, from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the voice of the world’s oncology professionals.
Gilda’s Club
Gilda’s Club videos on topics from Budgeting, Chemo Brain, Fatigue, Gnosis, Neuropathy, and more.
Counseling/Support Groups
CancerCare
Financial assistance / Support groups/ free telephone resource navigation.
Children’s Oncology Group (COG)
National Cancer Institute-supported clinical trials group, is the world’s largest organization devoted exclusively to childhood and adolescent cancer research.
Making Headway Foundation
Care and comfort for children with brain and spinal cord tumors while funding medical research geared to better treatments and a cure. Today, Making Headway carries on with our unique work, offering a continuum of services that includes individual counseling, educational advocacy, in-hospital quality-of-life programs, scholarships, fun family events, medical research grants, facilitating clinical trials, neuro-oncology fellowships, and so much more.
MISS Foundation
Access to counseling resources, advocacy information, research on traumatic grief, education for healthcare providers and community members, and support services for those grieving the death, or impending death, of a child.
Medicare Rights Center
Medicare Rights Center works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives.
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Cancer survivorship toolbox and resources.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
The Cassie Hines Shoes Cancer Foundation
Helping young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 16 & 30 connect with each other through peer support groups and cancer camps. We want to make it simple for young adults with cancer to find and utilize our website with links to all social support available to them. If travel expenses are not covered by the camp of support group our foundation will fund that amount.
Widowed Parent
Free online resources and information about local support groups for Mothers and fathers who lose their spouses to cancer and must adjust to being sole parents.
Fertility
Ferring Fertility – Heart Beat
This program provides select fertility medications at no cost for eligible patients. Qualifying patients must be female, be a US citizen or permanent resident, have received a diagnosis of cancer, and have received no chemotherapy within the previous 6 months. Oncologists and reproductive endocrinologists are required to determine that fertility preservation treatment is medically appropriate.
Livestrong Fertility
Livestrong Fertility is dedicated to providing reproductive information, resources, and financial support to survivors whose cancer and its treatment present risks to their fertility.
MotherToBaby
Information on benefits or risk of medications, drugs, or other exposures during pregnancy and while breastfeeding.
Progyny
A comprehensive, interactive online network for women – and men- seeking fertility and infertility information, advice, referrals, and appointments.
Resolve: The National Infertility Association
Provides timely, compassionate support and information to people who are experiencing infertility and increases awareness of infertility issues through public education and advocacy.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
Verna’s Purse
Provides discounted long-term reproductive tissue storage for qualifying male and female patients.
Financial
211
A comprehensive source of information about local resources and services. Partners with organizations, businesses, and government agencies that offer assistance.
American Breast Cancer Foundation
Assistance with screening and diagnostic testing for uninsured and underserved individuals.
Andre’ Sobel Award: Young Cancer Survivors’ Essay
Assistance to financially distressed single parents of children who are in active treatment for any condition.
Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation
Financial assistance to families with children fighting cancer in the U.S.
Benefits Check Up
Connects older adults and people with disabilities with benefits programs that can help pay for health care, medicine, food, utilities, and more.
Bone Marrow Foundation Patient Aid Program
Financial assistance to help ease the financial burdens for patients and their families.
Cancer Card Xchange
One-time gift of a gift card to brighten the day of someone with cancer.
Cancer Council of Ellis County
The Cancer Council of Ellis County (CCEC) provides services to individuals and families affected by cancer. The CCEC provides financial assistance, nutritional supplements, equipment loans, and educational materials.
Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition
The Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition (CFAC) is a group of 15 organizations that collaboratively fund and maintain a database of financial and other resources specifically for individuals diagnosed with cancer.
Cancer Survivors’ Fund
Non-Profit organization chartered exclusively for charitable purposes, specifically to provide college scholarships and help persons diagnosed with cancer, receiving treatment for cancer or in remission to find a new purpose and meaning in life.
CancerCare
Professional oncology social workers provide free emotional and practical support for people with cancer, caregivers, loved ones and the bereaved.
CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation
Nonprofit established in 2007 to address the needs of individuals who cannot afford their insurance co-payments to cover the cost of medications for treating cancer.
Childhood Leukemia Foundation
For children 21 years or younger, diagnosed with all forms of cancer, to increase self-esteem and give children the opportunity to have fun experiences and be better able to cope with cancer.
Children’s Leukemia Research Association
Assistance with cancer related medical bills.
Circle of Hope
The Circle of Hope Cancer Support Group provides: Financial assistance, Resource information, Sharing and caring group meeting, Free mammograms (age 35-64 that have no insurance or high premium), Encourages early detection and prevention programs.
Clayton Dabney Foundation
For kids in the final stages of terminal cancer, provides anonymous assistance to financially struggling families throughout the country.
Compassion Can’t Wait
Financial Assistance for single parent family allowing the parent to stay at their child’s bedside.
The Cure Starts Now
Mission to fund cancer research, List various partners that offer financial assistance to families of children with brain cancer.
Dollar For
A free service, for those that qualify, that will prepare an application requesting hospital discounts or bill forgiveness.
Early Detection Works: Myriad Cares Financial Assistance Program
Financial assistance to reduce out of pocket cost for qualified un and underinsured patients in the U.S.
Good Days
Offers patient assistance and financial resources for life saving and life extending treatments to people in need.
HealthWell Foundation
Assisting with copays, premiums, deductibles and out of pocket expenses.
Help Hope Live
Help patients and families bridge the financial gap between what their health insurance will cover and what they actually need to heal, live and thrive.
Kid’s Cancer Alliance
Peer support, camps, retreats, in-hospital programs and financial assistance.
Know Cancer
Directory of resources, including education, community and those that offer financial assistance.
Leave a Legacy Foundation
The Leave a Legacy Foundation’s mission is to strengthen the cancer fighting resources in southwest Kansas. Greatest needs fund available to help patients in need.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
Offers a variety of financial assistance programs.
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program/The Campaign for Home Energy Audit
A program that helps keep families safe and healthy through initiatives that assist families with energy costs.
Matt Stauffer Memorial Scholarship: Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults
Financial assistance for college students with cancer.
Medicine Assistance Tool (PPARX)
Medical assistance tool, a search engine designed to help patients, caregivers and health care providers learn more about the resources available through the various biopharmaceutical industry programs.
Mesothelioma Group
Scholarship awards $4,000 annually to one student whose life has been impacted by cancer. Mesothelioma.com offers this scholarship to provide financial assistance to students in their pursuit of higher education.
Mission4Maureen (Brain Cancer)
Financial assistance for brain tumor patients.
My Healthcare Finances
MyHealthcareFinances is a tool to help you better understand finances related to healthcare and steps you may take to lower your costs.
National Children’s Cancer Society
Financial assistance for families that have a child with cancer.
National Collegiate Cancer Foundation
To assist young adults and their families who are dealing with cancer and wish to pursue higher education, provides financial assistance, education, resources and scholarships.
National Foundation for Transplants
Financial assistance related to transplants.
NetWish
Financial assistance up to $200, with a focus on children, older adults and other vulnerable members of the community.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
A prescription co-pay savings program to help patients with out-of-pocket cost.
Patient Access Network Foundation (PANF)
Help for the underinsured people with life threatening, chronic, and rare diseases get the medications and treatments they need by assisting with their out-of-pocket cost and advocating for improved access and affordability.
Patient Advocate Foundation (Co-Pay Relief)
Provides direct payment for co-pays, co-insurance, and deductibles for patients who need financial assistance.
Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF)
Provides patient services, eliminating obstacles in access to quality healthcare.
The Pink Fund
Pink Fund provides financial support to those in active treatment for breast cancer, who have had a loss of income due to their treatment with housing, transportation, utilities, and insurance expenses.
Pinky Swear Foundation
Pinky Swear’s mission is helping kids with cancer and their families with financial and emotional support.
Ragan’s Hope
Helping parents of children with serious ongoing medical conditions or injuries endure the initial impact and embrace the future in the name of Christ.
Sanofi Aventis
For uninsured or under insured Americans who cannot afford their prescribed medications.
Sisters Network, Inc.
National financial assistance program that provides financial assistance to breast cancer survivors in active treatment, up to $350.
Smiles for Sophie Forever
Family grants, focus on children with brain cancer.
Special Love, for children with cancer
Provides a community of support to children with cancer and their families, including emergency financial relief program.
Stupid Cancer
A focus on adolescents, teens, and young adults with cancer. Offers information and resources including financial assistance.
Sunshine Foundation
Sunshine Foundation answers the dreams of children, ages 3-18, who have severe or profound physical/developmental/intellectual challenges or trauma from physical/sexual abuse, and whose families have limited income.
The SAMFund (young adults ages 17-35)
Financial assistance grants and family building grants.
Young Adult Cancer Camp
Young Adult Survivors United is a health and wellness community for young adult cancer survivors and caregivers/co-survivors to thrive from emotional, social, and financial support. Virtual programs are available nationwide.
Zichron Shlome Refuah Fund
Support for the financial, emotional and practical needs of the patients and their families.
Genetic Counseling
National Society of Genetic Counselors
Promotes the professional interests of genetic counselors and provides a network for professional communications. Access to continuing education opportunities, professional resources, advocacy and the discussion of all issues relevant to human genetics and the genetic counseling profession are an integral part of belonging to the NSGC.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Genetic counseling can help you and your family make informed decisions about genetic testing. Genetic testing looks for changes in your DNA that can inform your medical care.
Grief
Grief Support Network
To create caring communities of support for the bereaved through outreach, education, and advocacy.
Insurance
ACA Affordable Health Care
Affordable health care options including subsidized insurance in some cases for children and families; protections against pre-existing conditions.
Disability Rights Legal Center
An advocacy organization that champions the civil rights of people with disabilities as well as those affected by cancer and other serious illness.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
Zichron Shlome Refuah Fund
Support for the financial, emotional and practical needs of the patients and their families.
LGBTQ+
Cancer.net
List of national organizations have information and resources for LGBTQ+ people with cancer and LGBTQ+ caregivers.
GLMA
GLMA provides practice-changing continuing education for health professionals and resources to educate and empower LGBTQ+ patients.
National LGBT Cancer Network
Educating, training providers and advocating for the LGBT community.
National LGBT Cancer Project
National LGBT Cancer Project provides cancer-related programs, services and research focused on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex people and other sexuality and gender diverse people and communities.
Lymphedema
American Pain Foundation
An organization created by people with pain for people with pain, U.S. Pain recognizes and validates the challenges 50 million Americans endure every day. We strive to be the leading source of support for those living with pain, as well as their caregivers and care providers.
Fittings for You
Provides information, answers, and support to people in every community who have been touched by cancer.
The Foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy
Helping and healing people with peripheral neuropathy through awareness, education, support, advocacy, and research.
Get Palliative Care
A website providing clear, comprehensive palliative care information for people living with a serious illness.
National Lymphedema Network
This website has a clinician finder to help people find a certified lymphedema therapist in their area.
St Catherine Hospital Physical Therapy Department
Helps patients match with local physicians and therapists who treat lymphedema. Helps patients with the cost of supplies needed to fight this disease.
PainTrainer
PainTrainer is an interactive, online program based on scientific research that teaches you effective strategies to manage your pain. It was developed by Duke University and the University of Melbourne. It is currently being studied to determine if it can help with chronic pain related to cancer, but has been proven an effective tool for others with pain.
Nutrition
Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Provides reliable and evidence-based nutrition information to the public.
American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
Provides research on the link between diet and cancer and recipes.
Cook for Your Life
Healthy recipes and teaches healthy cooking to people touched by cancer.
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC)
Provides nutrition resources for consumers, nutrition and health professionals, educators, and government personnel.
National Institutes of Health (NHI)
Strengthening knowledge and understanding of dietary supplements.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.
United Way
Peer to Peer
4th Angel Mentoring Program (Cleveland Clinic)
The Cleveland Clinic 4th Angel Mentoring Program is an innovative, interactive approach to cancer support in which patients and caregivers are matched with trained volunteer mentors with similar age and cancer experiences. The program is a national, free service that emphasizes one-on-one contact to best empower caregivers and patients with knowledge, awareness, hope and a helping hand.
AIM at Melanoma
AIM at Melanoma is globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through innovative research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support.
The Breasties
To support and improve the experiences of the breast and gynecologic cancer community through peer-to-peer connection, resources, and advocacy. The Breasties is the first all-inclusive nonprofit organization that creates community for survivors, previvors, thrivers, and carevivors.
CancerCare
Support groups. Search by diagnosis or by topic to find the one for you.
Cancer Hope Network
Provides free one-on-one emotional peer support to adult cancer patients and their loved ones.
Cancer Network
CancerNetwork®, home of the journal ONCOLOGY®, provides multidisciplinary oncology professionals with practical and timely clinical information necessary to deliver the highest level of patient care. Expert authors and peer review ensure the quality of the journal’s articles and features. Focused discussions capture key clinical take-aways for application in today’s time-constrained practice environment.
Caregiver Action Network
Provide education, peer support, and resources to family caregivers across the country free of charge.
The Cassie Hines Shoes Center
Helping young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 16 & 30 connect with each other through peer support groups and cancer camps. We want to make it simple for young adults with cancer to find and utilize our website with links to all social support available to them. If travel expenses are not covered by the camp of support group our foundation will fund that amount
Casting for Recovery
Casting for Recovery envisions a future in which women with breast cancer receive emotional, physical, and social support throughout their cancer journey.
Imerman Angels
One-on-one Cancer support community. Provides free, personalized cancer support for cancer fighters, survivors, previvors and caregivers.
LUNGevity
The mission of LUNGevity Foundation is to have a meaningful and immediate impact on improving lung cancer survival rates, ensuring a higher quality of life for lung cancer patients, and providing a community for those impacted by lung cancer.
MyLifeLine.org
Easily connect cancer patients and caregivers with friends and family in order to reduce stress, anxiety and isolation, by creating your own private website, our goal is to help you find hope, regain control, document your journey, and receive social, emotional, and practical support from friends and family throughout the treatment process and beyond.
MyLungCancerTeam
A social network for those living with lung cancer. Emotional support, practical advice, and insights on managing treatment or therapies for lung cancer.
Next Step
Works with young people 16-29 years old who are living with both the immediate and long-term impact of cancer, HIV/AIDS or rare genetic disorders. Provides retreats and workshops that help young adults with cancer by providing a place to feel safe enough to laugh, share experiences, and create a sense of community with peers who truly understand their unique challenges.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer’s mission is to help empower everyone affected by adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer by ending isolation and building community. Stupid Cancer offers a lifeline to the adolescent and young adult cancer community by providing age-appropriate resources to help navigate treatment and survivorship on your own terms.