For Patients and Caregivers
We understand the challenges a diagnosis can bring. Browse through our list of patient and caregiver resources to help you throughout your cancer journey, and learn more about clinical trials.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials may offer access to the latest and most promising cancer treatments for you, or a loved one while paving the way for future cancer survivors.
Stand Up To Cancer can help if you are interested in clinical trials by connecting you with Carebox. This free and confidential trial matching service provides access to the vast database to help you identify the clinical trials that might be right for you or a loved one.
For more information, speak with your doctor, or medical care team, and learn more about clinical trials.
Support Services
Counseling and support throughout the journey
Counseling, Online Support Groups, Community Support
Peer to Peer Support
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Patient Resource Guide
Air Transportation
- Air Care Alliance
- AeroAngel
- Aeroangel – Wings of Hope
- Offering free flights to critically ill children on private jets to reach distant medical care throughout all 50 states
- Angel Flight West
- Angel Flight West – Free Flights for Those in Need
- Cheri Cimmarrusti, Executive Director cheric@angelflightwest.org
- Serving the states of WA, OR, ID, MT, WY,CO, UT, NV, AZ, CA, AK, and HI
- Angel Flight Central
- Angel Flight Central | Free Flights for Health Care
- Serving the states of ND, SD, MN, WI, NE, IA, IL, IN, KS, and MO
- Angel Flight Southcentral
- Angel Flight South Central | Free Air Transportation
- Serving the states of NM, TX, OK, AR, and LA
- Angel Flight East
- Home : Angel Flight East
- Serving the states of OH, PA, NY, VT, ME, VA, WV,NH, MA, RI, CT, and NJ
- Angel Flight Mid-Atlantic
- Serving the states of MI, OH, KY, WV, VA, WV, MD, and DE
- Angel Flight Northeast
- Angel Flight NE | Free Air Transportation for Patients – Angel Flight NE
- Serving the states of ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, and NJ
- Angel Flight Southeast
- Angel Flight Southeast | Free Medical Flights | Leesburg FL
- Serving Florida, the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands
- Air Charity Network
- Children’s Flight of Hope
- Corporate Angel Network
- Corporate Angel Network
- Arranges free travel on business or commercial aircraft for cancer patients as well as bone marrow and stem cell donors and recipients
- Footprints in the Sky
- footprintsflights.org
- Air Ambulance flights for patients whose needs dictate professional in-flight medical attention
- Healthcare Hospitality Network
- LifeLine Pilots
- https://lifelinepilots.org/
- Lindsey Kerr, Executive Director lindsey@lifelinepilots.org
- Mercy Medical Angels
- Eligibility at a Glance | Do I Qualify for Free Medical Travel?
- Providing transportation for travel 50+ miles one way or totaling 100 or more miles per month (ground) or 200+ miles (air)
- Mercy Flights Southeast
- Mercy Flight Southeast | Free Medical Flights | Leesburg FL
- Serving the states of MS, AL, GA, and SC
- Miracle Flights For Kids
- Free Medical Flights for Children | Miracle Flights
- Provides free commercial flights to children in need of life-changing medical care unavailable in their local communities
- Sky Hope
- Free Medical Flights for Patients with SkyHope
- Free medical and compassion flights for patients and veterans when medical care is 2+ hours away from home
Transportation
- Alex’s Lemonade Stand Travel for Care Program
- American Cancer Society Road to Recovery- providing transportation to local treatments
- Mercy Medical Angels- providing transportation for travel 50+ miles
Lodging
- American Cancer Society Hope Lodge
- Believe In Tomorrow Children’s Foundation
- Family House Inc
- Family House | Support For Families Facing Critical Illness
- Lodging for families and pediatric patients of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital who live 50 miles or more from the hospital
- Fisher House
- Home – Fisher House Foundation
- Provides military families housing close to a loved one during hospitalization for an illness, disease, or injury.
- Healthcare Hospitality Network
- Directories – Healthcare Hospitality Network
- Providing lodging for patients and families at little to no cost regardless of income
- Hope Lodge
- American Cancer Society Hope Lodge | What is Hope Lodge? | American Cancer Society
- Hope Lodge offers 1,100 rooms at 31 Hope Lodge locations in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.
- Hosts For Hospitals
- Home – Hosts for Hospitals
- Lodging and caring support to patients and their families traveling to greater Philadelphia for medical care.
- Joe’s House
- You focus on beating cancer, we’ll find you a place to stay – Joe’s House
- This non-profit lists cancer treatment centers and hospitals across the country with nearby lodging facilitates that offer a discount.
- Ronald McDonald House
- Ulman Foundation/Hosts for Humanity
- Hosts For Humanity – Ulman Foundation
- Housing options for those traveling to Baltimore for treatment
Financial Assistance
- Accessia Health
- Patient Programs | Accessia Health
- Medication and provider copays, coinsurance, health insurance premiums, medical expenses, and travel
- Adam’s Angels Ministry
- Adam’s Angels Ministry – Serving families who face childhood cancer.
- Financial assistance to families with a child diagnosed with cancer in the Houston and Austin, Texas areas.
- Allyson Whitney Foundation
- Home – Allyson Whitney Foundation
- For young adults between the ages of 16-36 diagnosed with a ‘rare’ cancer, noting that breast cancer in your ‘20s is considered ‘rare’. Must be a US citizen to apply.
- Aubrey Rose Foundation
- FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR FAMILIES – Aubrey Rose Foundation
- The Aubrey Rose Foundation helps families with children under the age of 18 who are currently living with a life-threatening medical condition. Families may apply for assistance with their child’s outstanding medical bills.
- B+ Foundation Family Assistance Program
- Need Help? — B+ | Fighting Childhood Cancer
- Offers qualified families money for expenses incurring from prescription medications that insurance won’t cover, travel costs for treatments, mortgage payments/rent, and more.
- In order to apply you must reach out to your social worker to obtain the online application
- Blood Cancer United- Co-pay Assistance Program
- Co-Pay Assistance Program | Blood Cancer United
- Providing assistance towards the cost of private, Medicare, Medicaid, and TRICARE insurance premiums, and treatment related co-pays and co-insurance for prescription drugs, labs, scans, tests, etc.
- Breast Cancer Angels
- Financial Assistance | Breast Cancer Angels
- Currently assisting southern California only
- Transportation, gas cards, mortgage and rental assistance, utility payments, medical co-pays, final expenses
- Bringing Hope Home
- How to Apply – Bringing Hope Home
- Light of Hope Family Program provides one-time financial assistance that can be used to pay essential household bills for individuals and families who are in active cancer treatment and reside in specific counties listed of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, and New York
- Cancer Care
- Financial Assistance Program for Cancer Related Costs
- Transportation (air, car, gas, car service, public transportation), home care, childcare, lodging, pet assistance
- Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition
- Resources for People with Cancer | Helping Hand | CancerCare
- Helping cancer patients manage their financial challenges
- Compass To Care
- I Need Help – Compass to Care
- Pediatric patients only
- Direct payment or support for families to receive payment from Medicaid for airfare, gasoline, lodging, parking fees, Uber/Lyft fees, train fare
- Dollar For
- What We Do – Dollar For
- Funded by donors, Dollar For helps you apply for financial assistance form your hospital. Services are completely free to patients.
- Family Reach
- Financial Assistance – Family Reach
- When funds are available, grants are offered to help cover non-medical expenses, including mortgage/rent payments, utilities, groceries, and transportation
- Fighting Children’s Cancer Foundation
- Families in Need – Fighting Children’s Cancer Foundation
- Assisting families with a child 21 years old or younger, currently being treated for pediatric cancer and living in New Jersey, are eligible for assistance and consideration.
- Gift of Hope
- Home – The Gift of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation
- Providing financial support to patients across Florida who are in need during breast cancer treatment.
Medication Assistance
- CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation
- CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation | CancerCare
- Helping people with cancer overcome financial access and treatment barriers by assisting them with co-payments for their prescribed treatments.
- Bristol Myers Squibb Patient Assistance Foundation
- Patient Assistance Foundation
- BMS provides certain BMS medicines to eligible patients free of charge.
- Genentech: Patient Support Services
- Genentech: Patient Support Services
- Genentech provides resources for people who have been prescribed a Genentech medicine. In addition, the Genentech: Genentech Patient Foundation gives free medicine to people who don’t have insurance coverage or who have financial concerns.
- HealthWell Foundation
- When health insurance is not enough – HealthWell Foundation
- Provides assistance with copays, premiums, deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses for essential treatments and medications.
- NeedyMeds.org
- NeedyMeds
- A non-profit organization committed to improving access to affordable healthcare for individuals in need.
- RxAssist
- RxAssist – Patient Assistance Programs
- A current and comprehensive directory of Patient Assistance Prescription Programs
Food Assistance
- Food and Friends
- Medically Tailored Meals in DC | Food & Friends
- Prepared and home delivered medically tailored meals and groceries for patients in the Washington D.C. area living with cancer, HIV/AIDS, and other serious illnesses
- Healing Meals Community Project
- Healing Meals Project
- Prepared and delivered organic meals for individuals and families dealing with a health crisis and living in the Central Connecticut area
- Magnolia Meals At Home
- Eligibility | Magnolia Meals at Home
- Eligible patients must live in or around Nutley, NJ, Cambridge, MA, and New Haven, CT as well as areas in New York, New Hampshire, and Boston, MA
Support/Well Being
- Cancer Care
- Cancer | Support Groups, Counseling, Education & Financial Assistance
- Offering resources for counseling, resource navigation, support groups, education, and financial assistance
- CrossRoads4Hope
- A Network of Cancer Support in New Jersey | Crossroads4Hope
- Offering support to patients and families, as well as nutrition and education resources.
- Ember
- Ember — A place to think out loud
- Ember is a conversation companion for patients who are facing serious illness. It helps patients and families understand what’s happening and prepare for what comes next.
- Man Up To Cancer
- Man Up to Cancer | Join Our Men’s Cancer Support Group
- A non-profit organization dedicated to helping men avoid isolation during their cancer journeys. Offering peer-to-peer support, an annual retreat, chemo care backpack program and local chapters- all geared toward improving the quality of life of members.
- Look Good Feel Better
- Home – Look Good Feel Better
- The Look Good Feel Better Program helps address the outward effects of treatment, so you can see yourself again.
- Lipstick Angels
- Lipstick Angels
- A non-profit organization dedicated to bringing oncology-sensitive, customized clean beauty, skincare, and wellness services to anyone affected by cancer.
- Services are offered at participating hospitals or clinics while you are receiving treatment, or virtually in the comfort of the patient’s home.
Why It Matters
Philanthropy is inherently an investment in the making of a better world. Stand Up To Cancer was built upon the bold belief in a future where no one dies from cancer. Thanks to the tireless effort of the brilliant researchers whose work we have supported, and to your generous support of SU2C, our vision is closer than ever to becoming reality.
— Julian Adams, Ph.D., President and CEO, Stand Up To Cancer
