Online Cancer Support Groups and Organizations by Type of Cancer

They offer five chats moderated by Colorectal Cancer Alliance's certified patient and family support navigators. They believe that there is nothing like talking to someone who has been through a similar situation. If you need help, or would like to provide hope and help to someone going through colorectal cancer, they invite you to join their support group chat.

This group matches a survivor with a person with colorectal cancer. In addition to receiving emotional support, people with cancer learn about treatment, side effects, and other important issues. The program’s certified Patient & Family Support Navigators connect you with a vetted Buddy who has been through a similar diagnosis to offer meaningful and useful advice that helped them get through colorectal cancer.

Some cancers such as colorectal, prostate, ovarian, uterine, cervical, or bladder cancer may affect parts of the digestive or urinary system and impair your ability to go to the bathroom and you may need an ostomy. This nonprofit organization supports, empowers, and advocates for people who have had or who will have ostomy or continent diversion surgery. They have several online support groups.

OMF offers three resources: (1) the Patient Forum allows patients, their friends and loved ones, and even doctors to interact with each other, share valuable treatment information, and learn more about OM in a secure environment. This interactive social network has about 2,000 active members; (2) the many social media outlets they administer, including a very active Facebook group that is closed to just OM patients and caregivers, and (3) a range of assistance programs that help to provide financial support when needed by OM patients and their family.

This organization is an educational and supportive resource for eye cancer patients, their families, and physicians. They have a very active Facebook group with more than 3,000 members and dozens of new posts each week. Join the Eye Cancer Network on Facebook or search their message board archives.

This nonprofit ACC patient support organization aims to create a worldwide community of ACC patients and supporters who share information, support, and hope while working together to develop a cure for ACC. They offer an e-mail-based support group and one on Facebook.

With a mission to advance prevention, detection, treatment, and rehabilitation of oral, head, and neck cancer through public awareness, research, advocacy, and survivorship, HNCA has a large online community.

This organization's focus is on contributing to the reduction of suffering, permanent physical damage and disfigurement, and death caused by cancer. Chat with others in the community in their support forum.

A support group for both laryngectomees and cancer patients who have lost their voice or become a neck breather. Their program, WebWhispers, offers an e-mail list and a forum for members to communicate.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is seeking a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hogdkin's disease, and myeloma, as well as supporting all those affected. Join the conversation on one of their discussion boards or online chats.

This is a free service of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) that introduces patients and their loved ones to a trained peer volunteer who has gone through a similar experience. Patients and their family members are matched with peer volunteers based on diagnosis, age, gender, and other factors that might create a mutual understanding and ease of communication.

This patient-founded, patient-focused, and patient-driven group is dedicated to research, education, early detection, and treatment of lung cancer. Join with others in their monthly Living Room chats.

In collaboration with Cancer Hope Network, the Lung Cancer Research Foundation offers lung cancer patients and caregivers the opportunity to be matched with a trained volunteer cancer survivor or caregiver who has been through a similar experience.

This foundation funds scientific research and seeks to empower lung cancer patients in their treatment process. Meet many others in one of their discussion forums.

This patient-founded and patient-led nonprofit organization's goal is to support those diagnosed with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia (WM) and help find a cure. Chat with others in their IWMF-Talk online discussion forums.

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is seeking a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hogdkin's disease, and myeloma, as well as supporting all those affected. Join the conversation on one of their discussion boards or online chats.

Founded by physicians and researchers sharing information about MDS this group connects patients with treatment and hospital referrals. They have an active patient message board.

This is the largest international melanoma foundation globally engaged and locally invested in advancing the battle against melanoma through research, legislative reform, education, and patient and caregiver support. Join their Facebook community.

The MRF is the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting medical research and providing information to patients about melanoma. Register on their Melanoma Patients Information Page to join their online melanoma community.

This resource was created to guide mesothelioma patients and their loved ones toward answers, information, and healthcare solutions. Join others on one of their recommended online support groups.

This organization is an advocacy and support group dedicated to providing the latest in cancer research, treatment, and aid. Emotional health and coping with mesothelioma are important aspects of care for patients. Mesothelioma.net offers assistance locating a mesothelioma support group in your area. Fill out a contact form on their website for a free Mesothelioma Information Packet.