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 ...

Some of the region’s top cancer support organizations are coming together to better serve those who are navigating a cancer diagnosis. It’s called the Greater Rochester ...

A new pediatric cancer peer support program will launch June 3. Based in Chester, national nonprofit Cancer Hope Network provides personalized, one-on-one peer mentorship support to adult cancer ...

Five local nonprofits have joined forces to form the Greater Rochester Cancer Alliance, aiming to enhance support services for cancer patients and their families in the region. This collaboration was ...

LAFAYETTE — Dexter Louie gets emotional thinking about the immediate sense of calm he felt visiting the Cancer Support Community for the first time, prodded by his wife and adult children who found ...

The new space benefits participants with more room for activity and more privacy during therapy sessions, but one of the ...

Social media can be a positive way to form community, and it can also be exhausting and negative. These four women share how they best used social media during their breast cancer journeys Alex ...

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 ...

Cancer cachexia impacts almost 90% of people living with pancreatic cancer. Learn more about this condition in this Q&A with Nicolas Clifford, PanCAN’s manager of research and education communication.

ON THE HEALTH WATCH... JACOB'S HEART, A LOCAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SUPPORT NON- PROFIT, JUST RECEIVED A LARGE DONATION. "JACOB'S HEART" HELPS FAMILIES WHO ARE DEALING WITH PEDIATRIC CANCER. THEY ARE NOT ...