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Virtual Support Groups

AnCan was the first to innovate virtual, real time, video chat support groups in multiple conditions moderated by patients for patients.

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Patient Navigation

Through our Groups, participants can connect organically with others to help with individual patient navigation for treatment at all stages.

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Exercise & Wellness

In partnership with MedaFit, we connect patients and their medical team to exercise programs through highly qualified exercise counselors.

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National Advocacy

Answer Cancer is active on a national stage working to improve patient care.

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About Us

AnCan is about people helping people, peer-to-peer ….. we are peers living with various conditions and situations, who help others faced with similar issues. We do this collectively and individually by providing answers, support and navigation to empower people living with serious and chronic conditions to Be Your Own Best Advocate.

Instructions for Joining a Group

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Upcoming Groups & EVENTS

*Days may change due to holidays

AnCan Foundation is a volunteer organization with a handful of paid staff. All our events are free, and all groups are free and drop-in. AnCan has limited capacity to provide one-one-one navigation. If we do, it is provided by volunteer peer mentors. Out of respect for their time, we request a donation in an amount you see fit. No one is turned away.

Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer

July 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST

Active Surveillance (AS) for low-risk prostate cancer presents its own challenges that are very diff...

Visual Snow Syndrome

July 1 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EDT

AnCan and the Visual Snow Initiative (VSI) have partnered together to provide face-to-face suppor...

Men ‘Speaking Freely’

July 2 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

The group is open to all conditions. We don’t discuss medicine, protocols and treatments – rathe...

Blood Cancers

July 2 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST

We are a group of women and men who come together as peers to discuss our experience with one or mor...

Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer Graphic

High Risk/Recurrent/Advanced Prostate Cancer Men and Caregivers Video Chat Virtual Support

July 6 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

This group is for men with complex disease either at diagnosis, or whose disease has recurred with ...

Veterans Healthcare Navigation

July 7 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

Veterans Healthcare Navigation addresses veterans’ disabilities and the VA system, covering to...

Cancer Caregivers

July 7 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm EDT

Caregivers are a much underserved population truly doing ‘Gods work’. This group supports caregi...

Sarcoidosis

July 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST

This support group is for patients and caregivers of a Sarcoidosis patient. We are all patients supp...

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The Faces of AnCan

Meet the wonderful people that make AnCan possible.

Jim Schraidt

Prostate Cancer Moderator - AS & Low/Intermediate

Jim Schraidt is a passionate advocate for better, less harmful prostate cancer treatment!

Dan Gifford

Moderator

After being diagnosed with prostate cancer in March of 2025 and leaning toward Active Surveillance against the advice of his urologist, he discovered AnCan with the help of “Captain Jim”, where his decision was supported and reinforced by the group.

Bill Franklin

Board Member; Low/Intermediate Prostate Cancer Moderator

Bill was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015 aged 51. Two months after a prostatectomy, he experienced a rapid rise in PSA and was treated with adjuvant radiation and 22 months of androgen deprivation therapy (Lupron).