Annette Bloch co-chairs cancer survivorship effort.

Annette Bloch co-founder of the R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, is helping lead this year’s  drive to help Kansas City breast cancer survivors after treatment. 
Back in the Swing® Retail Therapy! is proud to be the first and only national grassroots nonprofit organization joyfully dedicated to breast cancer survivorship clinical and supportive healthcare, and medical & [...]

Visit to Jacksonville Florida Park

My wife Polly and I visited the Cancer Survivors Park in Jacksonville, FL on the day before my last of 39 radiation treatments at the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute. The park is on the route we took to the treatment center so we drove by it each day on the way to [...]

DVD Helps Prepare for a Bone Marrow or Cord Blood Transplant

National Marrow Donor Program: The National Marrow Donor Program’s Office of Patient Advocacy has created a DVD to help prepare for a marrow or cord blood transplant. “Words of Experience, Stories of Hope: A Guide to Marrow and Cord Blood Transplant for Patients and Caregivers” explores the transplant experience from the perspective of patients, caregivers and transplant [...]

Cancer and Careers

Cancer and Careers: This program, begun by executives in the cosmetics, fragrance and related industries, addresses the needs of more than 80 percent of cancer survivors who return to work after treatment. Cancer and Careers provides a comprehensive website, free publications and a series of support groups and educational seminars. A free workbook, “Living and [...]

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Here is a LONG list of contact information about Cancer Support Organizations, organized by type of cancer. We want to help you find what you need and we try hard to keep this information up to date, accurate, and current. Please let us know if you feel we should revise our list in any way!

Fighting Cancer Woodblock Prints by Dale Phelps

November 2, 2006
This series of woodblock prints concerns visualization during meditation for the treatment of cancer. I have been living with prostate cancer since 1993 but it has recently increased its activity. Along with traditional medical treatments I have been utilizing guided imagery in meditation. I produced these images to help me with visualization [...]

Multidisciplinary second opinion centers

Many cancer patients are dying, not because treatments are not available, but because the initial physician failed to offer the best possible treatment. Cancer is an unusual disease for many reasons – if you don’t treat it properly the first time, often there is no second chance because cancer grows geometrically.
Often an initial treatment precludes [...]

2008 Cancer Survivors Parks Tour

Patient’s checklist

CLICK HERE to open the book in a new window or read it below — Chapter 14 “Check List”…

To Tell The Truth – just for fun!

Dick Bloch was a guest on the game show, “To Tell The Truth” in 1966 — FUN!

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