October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I would like to highlight the benefits of breast cancer support groups. These groups are all about information, and offer strength, understanding and ...

A weekly tenpin bowling group for cancer patients helps tackle loneliness through support, friendship and fun, organisers say ...

Making friends is hard enough as it is — a cancer diagnosis doesn't make it any easier. While some find comfort in ...

Cancer support groups offer comfort and fulfillment, but participation can be challenging due to personal circumstances and treatment side effects. The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted the ...

Jane Perlmutter, 77, has battled several different cancers in her life, including breast, esophageal, and then non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). But her diagnosis of breast cancer in 1985 was ...

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and while everything in sight tends to be bubblegum pink, there is a stark absence of color when it comes to breast cancer research. According to the American ...

Managing a cancer support group isn't easy. I’ve worked with a lot of support groups working in disability rehabilitation since 1974. The population of people with disabilities is diverse from ...

“It all felt overwhelming and frightening,” Julia Pallentino recalled of being diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer in ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — Cancer support groups are continuing to hold sessions, virtually, in-person, or both, as a healthcare company plans to close a Mary’s Avenue house and transition programs into the ...

Diagnosed with endometrial cancer, Rebecca Oh thought the hardest part would be treatment. But surviving the disease was only part of it – navigating life as a young cancer patient was harder, a gap ...

Once a month, every third Wednesday afternoon in a six-story building down Jefferson Highway, a room is filled with chairs arranged in a circle and women holding white Styrofoam cups of warm tea and ...