CancerConnection

support from someone who really understands
without leaving home
free and confidential

Wouldn’t it help to talk with someone who really understands what you’re going through? The Canadian Cancer Society’s CancerConnection program matches you with a trained volunteer who has had a similar cancer experience.

The program is available to any adult with cancer. Just click on the below link for more details.

CancerConnection will match you up according to what is most important to you. It may be that you are looking for someone who had a treatment you are considering, or someone who had the side effects you are experiencing, or maybe you are looking for less cancer-specific criteria like someone who had young children at the time of their diagnosis.

CancerConnection for people with cancer

Referring a patient:

Referrals can be made by a health care provider or by self referral.

Health care provider: If you are a health care provider, to refer a patient to CancerConnection, please call 1-888-939-3333 or fax the completed health care referral form to 604-675-7301 or email to cancerconnection@bc.cancer.ca and a CancerConnection Coordinator will contact the patient within 2 business days.
Self referral: If you are referring yourself please call 1-888-939-3333 or fill out the online individual referral form or email to cancerconnection@bc.cancer.ca and a CancerConnection Coordinator will contact you within 2 business days
NOTE: Online registration is temporarily unavailable. Please telephone 1-888-939-3333 for a referral.

In accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act (PIPA), the personal information collected on the referral form will only be used by the CancerConnection team to contact the patient and to initiate the matching process. For further information call 1-888-939-3333

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Last modified on: 21 June 2011