Your cancer experience may trigger fears about dependency and the loss of autonomy. Acute awareness of your mortality may threaten the values that shape your meaning of life. What do you do when experiences of loss of good health and fear of dying from cancer overwhelm your every thought?

Why not turn to survivors who have been there before? True, their insights and experiences will not be able to prepare you thoroughly for your cancer survivorship experience. After all, your experience is unique to you. You might however get a glimpse of the many ways cancer support groups or individual counseling can help you in what at times might be very tumultuous times.

Cancer support groups and individual counseling can help you potentially improve your quality of life. I just wanted to take a moment to illustrate how cancer patients have used support groups and individual counseling to help them deal with their cancer experience. In no particular order, here are eight studies that speak to why we offer cancer support groups and why we think that you might benefit from our survivorship programs.

The first study expresses the difficulties some cancer patients might face in dealing with the emotional mayhem of diagnosis, treatment, and later survivorship. You might find some similarities to your situation.

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