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Washington DC Cancer Support

If you live, work or travel in or around Washington, D.C and you are living with cancer – either as a patient or caregiver, then you need this information.

When You Want to Help

Whether you are a neighbor who wants to help, or a spouse, helping someone get through cancer can be difficult. Here are some resources to help you reach out.

Lotsa Helping Hands

www.lotsahelpinghands.com

Provides a simple way for friends, family, colleagues and neighbors to pitch in with meals delivery, rides and other tasks necessary for life to run smoothly during a crisis. It uses a free easy-to-use, private group calendar, specifically designed for organizing helpers.

Life After Cancer

Cancervive is an organization that helps cancer survivors overcome the challenges of “life after cancer.” In addition to support groups, they provide educational materials, insurance information and assistance and advocacy.

At first, I didn’t get it. Why worry about life after cancer? What’s there to worry about?

For some families, having a child with cancer has wiped them out financially and college scholarships specifically targeting young cancer survivors can help.

Strength for Caring

Caregivers of patients with cancer experience significant stress. The anxiety and depression of caring for patients with cancer actually causes physical changes in the caregiver, including so-called oxidative stress, and leaky kidneys.

Need a Lift? Traveling for Cancer Treatment

The National Patient Travel Helpline provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medical air transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical air transportation network. Its goal is to ensure that no financially-needy patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of a means of long-distance medical air transportation.

Anastacia: A Cancer Survivor Shares Her Story

“Sometimes things are going to happen that you don’t expect. You can’t fit yourself into a mold. Everyone fits a pant differently; everyone’s spirit absorbs things differently, so how could we heal the same?” Anastacia,

Love, Leukemia and Light The Night

Like many brides, Holly Jukiewicz is looking forward to her wedding this June where she will marry the love of her life, Lonny Warner. When her fiancé Lonny was just a few months old he was diagnosed with leukemia and he was is treatment for the next several years. His entire family was affected. His brothers often had to stay with other family members while their parents and Lonny were away at the hospital. And Lonny has memories of the dreaded trip over the George Washington Bridge into New York City -- that was the route they took when he had to go for treatment.

Nationwide Art Works for Cancer Contest

Cancer touches the lives of so many we know and love. As a way for you to express yourself about this widespread disease, American Cancer Educational Services (ACES) in conjunction with our fundraising entity, the American Cancer Fund (ACF), is sponsoring the first annual "Art Works for Cancer".

A Lymphoma Survivor’s Story

I definitely think that being a patient with cancer, you have to be an advocate for yourself, because a lot of times, I think, doctors and caregivers get into the routine of repetitiveness. Every case is different, but sometimes they don’t look at every case as different as they should. You definitely need to make that next step to get a second opinion, find an alternative. If you’re in pain and taking pain meds and they’re not working for you, find an alternative to that pain med.

Organize Your Cancer Treatment

The Lance Armstrong Foundation, at http://www.livestrong.org offers a number of unique and helpful resources. Some of the best are tools to help you get organized. Survivorship Worksheets help you and your loved ones organize information that is hard to keep track of. Go the website and print the documents and fill in your personal information to manage the information important to your survivorship experience.