Cancervive was founded in 1985 to assist cancer survivors by helping them make sense of their cancer experience and work through any lingering emotions. What makes this organization unique is that it deals exclusively with post-treatment issues.
Cancervive provides individual and group therapy, a quarterly newsletter and public education about survivorship.
If there is no Cancervive chapter in your community, you can start one yourself with the help of the Cancervive national office in Los Angeles. The address is 6500 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90048. You can also contact your local hospital to find out if there is a hospital-sponsored survivorship program in your area.
Suggested Readings for Survivors
• At the Will of the Body by Arthur Frank (Houghton Mifflin).
• Cancer and Hope: Charting a Survival Course by Judith Garrett Garrison, MEd, LSW, and Scott Sheperd,
PhD.
• Cancer Stories by Esther Dreiff-Kattan (The Analytic Press).
• Cancervive: The Challenge of Life After Cancer by Susan Nessim and Judith Ellis (Houghton Mifflin).
• Charting the Journey by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan and Barbara Hoffman, JD (Consumer Reports Books).
• Upfront: Sex & the Post-Mastectomy Woman by Linda Dackman (Viking Press).
• Where the Buffaloes Roam by Bob Stone and Jenny Stone Humphries (Lapidum Press).
• Witness to Illness by Karen E. Horowitz and Douglas M. Lanes, MD (Addison Wesley).
