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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
From own experience, AnCan moderator advocates for End-of-Life legislation!
Susan Lahaie, who co-moderates our Advanced Cancer Caregivers Virtual Group, has first hand experience advocating for medical-aid-in-dying legislation in Delaware. Her husband ,Ron Silverio, GRHS, passed in Jan 2018 from prostate cancer, and without the option of...
Navigation … sure; Support … of course; but AnCan’s Advocacy?! ….
Advocacy is right there in our tag line! Most of you know how AnCan provides navigation and support ... but advocacy, well that may just be a little more vague. This past week a great example presented itself that helps illustrate how we are making our mark on cancer...
‘Scanxiety’
Regular participants of Ancan’s High Risk-Recurrent-Advanced virtual online support group and The Reluctant Brotherhood’s Inner Conversations, may know that I am agoraphobic and claustrophobic. I’m not ashamed to admit it and even find it cathartic at times to talk...
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.
High Risk/Recurrent/Advanced Prostate Cancer Men and Caregivers Video Chat Virtual Support
Visual Snow Syndrome
Cancer Caregivers
Veterans
Active Surveillance Prostate Cancer
Men ‘Speaking Freely’
Blood Cancers
Low/Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer
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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!
Non-Medical Switching ….. know what we’re talking about?
Non-Medical Switching….. know what we’re talking about?… 40% of patients on mood stabilizers fared worse when their insurers forced them to a different drug! Read AfPA’s blog post https://instituteforpatientaccess.org/non-medical-switching-pushes-patients-to-the-brink/
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat, May 16, 2022
Hi-Risk/Recurrent/Advanced PCa Video Chat May 16, 2022 – Save the best til last when a Care Partner gives her perspective!
Solo Arts Heal with Elizabeth Jameson
Elizabeth Jameson is an artist, writer, and health advocate. Since her diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, she has used medical technology to create art as a way of taking ownership of her disease. She transformed her unsettling, clinical black-and-white brain scans into work that invites others to be curious and contemplate
the beauty of the brain, and encourages conversations about what it means to live in an imperfect body.
As a peer-to-peer organization we are not required to comply with HIPAA; nor can we provide medical advice but do offer our own experiences.
