Breast Cancer Resources: Angel Care Foundation P.O. Box 906 Issaquah, WA 98027 http://www.angelcarefoundation.org/resources.htm "The Angel Care Breast Cancer Foundation is made up of breast cancer survivors who truly understand how it feels to be given this diagnosis. We are backed by a Board of Directors who offer expertise and valuable experience. For those afflicted with breast cancer in the greater Puget Sound area, we provide free person-to-person emotional support, important resources to help inform breast cancer patients, networking with others about surgery options, and we help patients recover emotionally during treatments. Angel Care is an approved United Way agency."
American Cancer Society
250 Williams Street, N.W.
Atlanta, GA 30303
800-ACS-2345
www.cancer.org
The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.
Gilda’s Club Worldwide
322 Eight Avenue Suite 1402
New York, NY 10001
www.gildasclub.org
Gilda’s Clubs provide Cancer Support for the Whole Family, the Whole Time. Their mission is to provide meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer—and their families and friends—can join with others to build emotional and social support as a supplement to medical care. Free of charge and nonprofit, Gilda’s Club offers support and network groups, lectures, workshops and social events in a nonresidential, homelike setting. Pink-Link.org 149 S. Barrington Ave. #734 Los Angeles, CA 90049 310-995-5204 www.pink-link.org Cancer is a club you didn't ask to join. But it happens, and in one diagnosis, the earth beneath your feet shifted. When you join Pink-Link (its free), you are instantly linked to a network of survivors, family members, medical pros, and others, who in essence, become your pen pals, via our website 24/7, we are here for each other. Ask questions, share experiences, dig for information, give a resource, help each other through rough spots. Join free and [they] welcome you!
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
5005 LBJ Freeway, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 752441-
877 GO KOMEN
www komen.org
Born in a promise between two sisters—Nancy G. Brinker to her sister, Susan G. Komen, who died from breast cancer at the age of 36—Susan G. Komen for the Cure is the world’s largest and most progressive grassroots network fighting to end breast cancer forever. Because 10 million women around the world could die from breast cancer in the next 25 years without the cure, Komen is fighting every minute of every day to save every life. With nearly $1 billion invested to date, Komen is the world’s largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to curing breast cancer at every stage—from the causes, to the cures, to the pain and anxiety of every moment in between. Susan G. Komen for the Cure has played a critical role in every major advance in the fight against breast cancer over the past 25 years—transforming how the world talks about and treats this disease and helping to turn millions of breast cancer patients into breast cancer survivors. Counseling Resources: Psychology Today
115 E 23rd Street
Ninth Floor
New York, New York 10010
www.psychologytoday.com Psychology Today dedicates itself to an authoritative exploration of the connection between mind, body and spirit. We offer assistance in locating mental health therapists and alternative healthcare providers throughout the United States. With so many issues concerning our emotional well-being, whether they relate to relationship difficulties, family concerns or more serious psychological conditions that are clouded by confusion and stigma, our site has been designed to cut through these problems by providing easily accessible, well written and timely health information and resources that can be viewed from the privacy of your home and office. Nutritional ResourcesSable Foods 877-217-2253 www.sablefoods.com Those individuals affected by cancer—patients, their families, and their caregivers—understand the ongoing struggle to maintain a well-balanced diet following diagnosis, throughout treatment, and often for the weeks, or even months, afterwards. Our mission is to help patients thrive by providing nourishing and absolutely delicious foods that are enjoyable to eat anywhere. Our commitment is to conduct business in a manner consistent with the fundamental nursing values of compassion, integrity, and trustworthiness and to support efforts towards finding a cure by donating “a bite of every bar” to cancer research. - Our bars were formulated by the cancer community specifically to address the cancer-nutrition challenge.
- Our bars are packed with a custom blend of vitamins and minerals.
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