Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area provides comprehensive integrative care — including counseling, support groups, nutrition, exercise and patient education programs — for people with cancer and their families or caregivers.Our services enable cancer patients to partner with their treatment team to manage their treatment and recovery most effectively, increase their chances for survival, reduce their chances of recurrence, and provide for the highest possible quality of life.
All of our programs and services are evidence-based to positively impact cancer treatment outcomes and/or immune system functioning, and they are all delivered by professionals who are licensed or certified in their area of expertise.
We never turn anyone away, and all of our services are always provided free of charge in order to be readily accessible to people facing cancer in their time of need.
Cancer Support Community is proud to provide services and support to residents of all Bay Area cities including: Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Concord, Martinez, Lafayette, San Ramon, Danville, Oakland, Berkeley, Dublin. Our main center is in Walnut Creek. We also provide services in local medical centers and in several other community locations throughout the Bay Area. We now serve 2,000 cancer patients and their families each year.
Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area was founded in 1990 as The Wellness Community San Francisco East Bay. Our founder, Shannon McGowan, had previously served as the Program Director for the first Wellness Community based in West Los Angeles, which began the integrative therapies and cancer patient empowerment movement in the United States.Today, we are still the only organization of its kind in Northern California. We are an affiliate of the international Cancer Support Community organization, but we are an independent nonprofit corporation. All of the funds we raise are used to underwrite direct programs and services in our local community.
Cancer Support Community San Francisco Bay Area provides comprehensive integrative care — including counseling, support groups, nutrition, exercise and patient education programs — for people with cancer and their families or caregivers.
We offer support groups, educational programs and mind/body programs in Spanish, led by a bilingual, bicultural facilitator. These programs provide a place for families to come together to learn more about coping with cancer and managing treatment and recovery together as effectively as possible. The support groups are held in San Pablo and Walnut Creek.
925.953.1211 office
925.407.7075 cell
3276 McNutt Ave
Walnut Creek, California 94597
www.cancersupport.net
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