Blogs

Check out the story below. Cancer Support Community's updated program Frankly Speaking About Cancer: New Discoveries in Cancer is highlighted in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. I will be presenting on new discoveries in psycho-social support for cancer patients and their families.  Patients are often overwhelmed around the time of diagnosis.  They are being asked to process complex information about new treatment options.  There is compelling evidence that suggests that...

On Friday afternoon April 13th Dr. Mitch Golant moderated a Symposium on Implementing Community-based Distress Screening for Cancer Patients. As Senior Director of Research and Training at the Cancer Support Community, I with Melissa Wright, Program Director at Gilda’s Club Quad Cities seized the attention of researchers when wespoke about the lessons learned pioneering distress screening, referral and follow in the community.  Dr. Paul Jacobsen, the symposium discussant from Moffitt Cancer...

Whether delivering a presentation in front of a large crowd or meeting a significant other’s parents for the first time, we all fall victim to anxiety on occasion. Now, in a time of financial crisis in which job security seems particularly fragile, worry increasingly gains the upper hand.

In Freeing Yourself from Anxiety, clinical psychologist Tamar Chansky outlines how to liberate yourself from anxiety. Not just for those struggling with anxiety disorders...

The February 2012 edition of Bloom focused on the Sustainability of Groups and Organizations.  The Cancer Support Community is featured in an article entitled "Can Mergers Ensure Sustainability? A Case Study of the Cancer Support Community".  This is an interesting case study in how two organizations came together in order to expand their funding base as well as increase their reach and strengthen their mission.  Check it out!

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This past Friday, we were happy to see that John George, Senior Reporter at thePhiladelphia Business Journal wrote about our web-based distress screening tool for cancer patients and The Breast Cancer M.A.P. (Mind Affects The Physical) Project, a place for breast cancer survivors to go online and share their experience with us in a way that allows us to collect information to then share with the broader community.  Based on their experiences,...