Peer Support - Matching Services

 

 

CancerConnection

1-888-939-3333 (toll-free)

www.cancer.ca/Canada-wide/Support%20Services/CW-CancerConnection.aspx?sc_lang=en

This program, offered by the Canadian Cancer Society, connects you with a trained volunteer who has had a similar cancer experience. You will receive support and practical information over the phone from someone who had had cancer or has cared for someone with cancer.

 

Pink Link

www.pink-link.org

Through its online database, Pink Link connects you with other breast cancer survivors with your particular diagnosis, recommended treatment, family situation, and other important common links.

 

Imerman Angels

www.imermanangels.org

Imerman Angels partners a person fighting cancer with someone who has beaten the same type of cancer. The service is free and helps anyone touched by any type of cancer, at any cancer stage level, at any age, anywhere in the world.

 

Cancer Buddies Network

www.cancerbuddiesnetwork.org

Cancer Buddies Network is an online charity-based support group designed to put you in touch with your cancer buddy so you can share the ups and downs, laughter and tears with someone who knows how it feels

 

Hope for Two: The Pregnant With Cancer Network

www.pregnantwithcancer.org

The mission of The Pregnant With Cancer Network is to connect women who are pregnant with cancer with other women who have been pregnant with the same type of cancer. These women lend support, offer hope and share their experiences with one another through phone and e-mail conversation.

 

National Lymphedema Network - Penpals and Netpals

www.lymphnet.org/patients/netpalsPenpals.htm