Cancer Support Resources You Can Trust
Twelve organizations offering real help, support, guidance, and community for people affected by cancer.
Patient Advocate Foundation: Help With Insurance, Access to Care, and Medical Costs
Patient Advocate Foundation provides free case management for people facing serious illness, helping resolve insurance denials, access-to-care problems, medical costs, disability issues, employment challenges, and financial hardship.
Imerman Angels: One-on-One Cancer Peer Support
Imerman Angels provides free personalized cancer peer support, matching patients, survivors, previvors, and caregivers with trained Mentor Angels whose diagnoses, treatments, ages, and experiences are similar.
Cancer and Careers: Help With Work During and After Cancer
Cancer and Careers helps people navigate work during and after cancer with free guidance on treatment and employment, disclosure, workplace communication, returning to work, job searches, career coaching, resume review, and educational programs.
Cactus Cancer Society: Creative Support for Young Adults Facing Cancer
Cactus Cancer Society creates community for young adult cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers through art, writing, discussion, education, and shared experience, offering an alternative to the traditional support-group format.
Cancer Hope Network: One-to-One Peer Mentoring for People Facing Cancer
Cancer Hope Network provides one-to-one peer mentoring for people affected by cancer, matching patients and caregivers with trained volunteers who have lived through similar diagnoses, treatments, caregiving roles, and life circumstances.
CancerCare: Free Counseling, Support, and Financial Help for People With Cancer
CancerCare provides free professional support for patients, survivors, caregivers, loved ones, and the bereaved, including oncology social work, counseling, support groups, resource navigation, education, and limited financial assistance.
Cancer Support Community: Free Cancer Support, Navigation, and Connection
Cancer Support Community provides free support and navigation for people affected by cancer through its helpline, local Cancer Support Community and Gilda’s Club locations, online communities, education, and specialized navigation services.
Tigerlily Foundation: Cancer Support, Advocacy, and Health Equity for Women
Tigerlily Foundation supports women affected by cancer through education, peer navigation, advocacy, health equity programs, clinical-trial engagement, and practical resources, with substantial programming focused on breast cancer and younger women.
CancerBuddy: Find Peer Support From People Who Understand Cancer
CancerBuddy is a free peer-support app from the Bone Marrow & Cancer Foundation that helps patients, survivors, and caregivers connect with people who share similar diagnoses, treatments, ages, locations, side effects, and experiences.
Man Up to Cancer: Peer Support for Men Facing Cancer
Man Up to Cancer helps men affected by cancer fight isolation through peer support, community, local chapters, retreats, Care Backpacks, and connections with other men who understand what it means to face cancer.
Stupid Cancer: Support and Community for Young Adults With Cancer
Stupid Cancer connects adolescents and young adults affected by cancer with community, peer support, practical resources, advocacy, events, and CancerCon, a major gathering dedicated to the AYA cancer community.
Triage Cancer: Free Help With Cancer, Insurance, Work, and Finances
Triage Cancer helps patients and caregivers navigate the legal and practical problems cancer creates, including health insurance, employment rights, disability, finances, estate planning, and free one-on-one legal and financial navigation.
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