THE HOME OF PEER-TO-PEER
VIRTUAL SUPPORT GROUPS
Virtual Support Groups
AnCan was the first to innovate virtual, real time, video chat support groups in multiple conditions moderated by patients for patients.
Patient Navigation
AnCan offers individual patient navigation for treatment at all stages.
Exercise & Wellness
In partnership with MedaFit, we connect patients and their medical team to exercise programs through highly qualified exercise counselors.
National Advocacy
Answer Cancer is active on a national stage working to improve patient care.
About Us
AnCan is about people helping people, peer-to-peer ….. we are people 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 address their situations.
Instructions for Joining a Group
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Recent News
If Medicine Doesn’t Come to You, Go to It!
If Medicine Doesn't Come to you, Go to the Medicine! You know what they say about Mohammed and the Mountain ...... if the mountain will not go to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain! Well it's often like that today with cutting edge medicine - and even not so...
MS Art with Hannah Garrison
Support comes in many forms, and here at AnCan, we are so blessed to have Hannah Garrison, a fantastic MS activist, moderator for our MS Virtual Support Group, and artist. In honor of MS Awareness Month (March) we had a phenomenal time with adaptable art of all skill...
SEVEN YEARS for Peter Kafka …… a meaningful number!
Peter Kafka, our Board Chair and Lead Moderator for several of our video-chat virtual support groups, poignantly reflects this week on the meaning of 7 years living with his prostate cancer. (rd) One subject that comes up fairly often in our prostate cancer support...
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.
Low/Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer
Multiple Sclerosis
High Risk/Recurrent/Advanced Prostate Cancer Men and Caregivers Video Chat Virtual Support
Solo Arts Heal
Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
High Risk/Recurrent/Advanced Prostate Cancer Men and Caregivers Video Chat Virtual Support
Visual Snow Syndrome
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The Faces of AnCan
Meet the wonderful people that make AnCan possible.
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Our Blog
Keep up on all of the latest AnCan news, group recaps, and events in our blog!
Solo Arts Heal with Suzie Campbell
AnCan and The Marsh (well renown, long-established theater company with a large following in the Bay Area and venues in San Francisco and Oakland) collaborate every 4th Wednesday of the month for Solo Arts Heal!
I had the absolute pleasure of filling in for Rick, and interviewing July’s gust Suzie Campbell!
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Aug 1, 2023
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, Aug 1, 2023: Good riddance to abi, but the prednisone’s “side effects” were useful
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, July 25, 2023
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, July 25, 2023: We go from bones to boners but never hear about the grizzly.
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