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Mission: Cancer Support Community strives to to help people affected by cancer enhance their health and well-being through participation in a professional program of emotional support, education, and hope. Our mission is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
Results: Celebrating 25 years in 2015, Cancer Support Community has now served 25,000 cancer patients and their families.
Target demographics: people facing cancer in their greatest time of need
Direct beneficiaries per year: 2,100 cancer patients and their families
Geographic areas served: serving the entire San Francisco Bay Area
Programs: The mission of Cancer Support Community is to ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community. Cancer Support Community provides comprehensive integrative care - including counseling, support groups, nutrition, exercise and patient education programs - for people with cancer and their families or caregivers. We never turn anyone away, and all of our services are always provided free of charge in order to be readily accessible to people facing cancer in their time of need.