Looking for extra resources?
View our extensive list of personal resources available across the United States below. For your convenience, we have provided subcategories of the types of resources as well as if they are offered specifically to cancer warriors or to people that may or may not be a cancer warrior. Each resource will be linked to an organization’s official website, and a brief description of what the resource pertains to. Resources include online support groups and forums, transportation assistance, personal care items, etc.
If you know of another resource that many people could benefit from, you can submit a resource suggestion here.
Please Note: Resources listed are not sponsored or affiliated with Fight Like a Girl unless it is explicitly stated in the description of a particular resource i.e. Fight Notes and Fight Pals. The purpose of our resources lists is to help anyone get started with their personal research into support resources they could benefit from. The content on our resource lists is not recommended or endorsed with any specific opinions or information in mind and does not substitute for any professional healthcare advice.
Non-Cancer Resources
These resources are not exclusively offered to cancer warriors, but rather warriors battling any life altering illnesses.
Encouragement:
Fight Notes – Program by Fight Like a Girl Foundation that sends monthly homemade cards to anyone who could use some encouragement
Financial Assistance:
The Assistance Fund – Provides financial assistance with treatments for eligible patients of various diseases and illnesses including some cancers
Good Days – Offers financial assistance for things including copays, travel, testing, etc.
Medicine Assistance Tool – Matches patients with resources and cost-sharing programs that may help lower out-of-pocket costs
Mental Health America – Breaks down ways to afford mental health care
Patient Advocate Foundation -Provides case management services and financial aid to Americans with chronic or life altering illnesses
Genetic Testing:
Invitae – Provides financial assistance for their genetic testing for people who qualify
Medications:
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Prescription Drug Assistance – Offers assistance, coupons and free trials for medications and vaccines
Merck Patient Assistance Programs – Provides certain medicines and adult vaccines for free
Novartis – Provides access to to Novartis medications for those most in need via patient assistance enrollment
Pfizer RxPathways – Connects eligible patients to a range of assistance programs
RxAssist – Offers a comprehensive database of patient assistance programs
Mental Health and Wellbeing:
Crisis Text Line – Provides free, 24/7 mental health support via text message
National Alliance of Mental Illness – Provides information, resource referrals, and support to people living with a mental health condition
National Domestic Violence Hotline – Provides essential tools and support to domestic violence survivors
Suicide Prevention Lifeline – Provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress
The Trevor Project – Provides suicide preventions and crisis intervention resources for LGBTQ+ youth
Veterans Crisis Line – Provides free confidential 24/7 support to service members, veterans and loved ones
Support Services:
Meal Train – Simplifies the organization of meal giving around significant life events with a shared calendar
Cancer Resources
These resources are offered to cancer warriors specifically through organizations that have missions to help cancer warriors.
Bras and Breast Prostheses:
Awesome Breastforms – Provides free handmade knitted/crocheted breastforms for any woman who has had a mastectomy or lumpectomy
Impact One – Includes bras, breast prosthetics or compression garments as requested in their HOPE boxes
Knitted Knockers – Provides free handmade knitted/crocheted breast prosthesis
Clinical Trials:
Breast Cancer Trials – Lists all of the U.S-based trials on ClinicalTrials.gov and Cancer.gov that are currently looking for volunteers
Cancer Support Community Clinical Trial Matching Service – Finds trials based on your specific diagnosis, stage and treatment history
Head and Neck Cancer Alliance Trials – Finds clinical trials based on a short questionnaire
Encouragement:
2 Live 2 Cure – Sends care kits to cancer patients
Barnett-Searing National Cancer Foundation – Provides care packages to female cancer patients
Fight Notes – Program by Fight Like a Girl Foundation that sends free monthly homemade cards to anyone who could use some encouragement
Kits to Heart – Provides curated cancer care kits for patients and caregivers
The Lydia Project – Sends inspirational tote bag care packages to cancer fighters
Phil’s Friends – Sends care packages to cancer patients
Send a Smile Today – Mails monthly greeting cards to support cancer warriors
Financial Assistance:
The Assistance Fund – Provides financial assistance with treatments for eligible patients of various diseases and illnesses including some cancers
Cancer Card Xchange – Collects and distributes gift cards to cancer patients
Good Days – Offers financial assistance for things including copays, travel, testing, etc.
Komen Treatment Assistance – Offers financial awards to eligible breast cancer fighters
Medicine Assistance Tool – Matches patients with resources and cost-sharing programs that may help lower out-of-pocket costs
Mercy Medical Angels – Provides transportation assistance via gas cards, bus and airline tickets for patients with life-altering diseases
Patient Advocate Foundation – Provides case management services and financial aid to Americans with chronic or life altering illnesses
Pink Aid’s Pink Purse – Provides emergency financial assistance to individuals in need during breast cancer treatment
Pink Fund – Provides 90-day non-medical cost-of-living expenses on behalf of breast cancer patients in active treatment
Stomp the Monster – Assists with living expenses through financial grants
Fitness and Nutrition:
Aunt Sister Project – Offers fitness classes and training to cancer warriors
Cook for Your Life – Teaches healthy cooking to people touched by cancer via videos, recipes, etc.
Livestrong at the YMCA – Offers a free or low cost 12-week physical activity program designed to get survivors back on their feet
Moving for Life – Offers free online fitness classes
Hats/Head Coverings:
Battle Cap Project – Provides custom crocheted caps to anyone fighting cancer
Chemocessories – Sends sets of scarves, turbans and jewelry and donating them to women going though treatment
Good Wishes – Provides wraps/scarves to anyone experiencing the thinning or loss of hair as a result of illness or treatment at no cost
Hope Scarves – Sends scarves to people facing all types of cancer and shares stories of hope
Verma Foundation – Gives cap wigs to cancer patients suffering from hair loss
Helplines:
American Cancer Society 24/7 Helpline – 1-800-227-2345 – Connects you with specialists who answer questions and provide guidance/support
Cancer Support Community Helpline -Provides guidance, resources and support to cancer patients or loved ones with a variety of needs
Susan G. Komen Helpline – Provides information about breast health, breast cancer, resources, clinical trials and offers support
Medications:
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Prescription Drug Assistance – Offers assistance, coupons and free trials for medications and vaccines
Merck Patient Assistance Programs – Provides certain medicines and adult vaccines for free
Pfizer RxPathways – Connects eligible patients to a range of assistance programs
RxAssist – Offers a comprehensive database of patient assistance programs
Mental Health:
Cancer Hope Network – 1-877-467-3638 – Offers free and confidential one-on-one emotional support to cancer warriors and their families
Living Well Cancer Resource Center – Supports individuals, and families impacted by cancer with trained counselors and social workers
Online Support Groups/Forums/Websites:
For the Breast of Us – Empowers women of color affected by breast cancer through education, advocacy and community
Metavivor Peer to Peer Support Group – Offers support groups that are led by Metavivor trained peers
Vulvar Cancer Awareness Forum – Advocacy group for vulvar cancer
Young Survival Coalition – Connects young breast cancer survivors to one another
Proactive Awareness, Prevention, and Early Detection:
Bright Pink – Empowers women to know their risk and manage their health proactively with their programs
National Breast Cancer Foundation – Provides free mammograms through partner facilities
National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program – Provides access to breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services
Support for Loved Ones:
Camp Kesem – Supports children through and beyond their parent’s cancer through programs including free summer camp
The Helene Foundation – Provides assistance to families with mothers actively undergoing treatment for 6 months
Little Pink Houses of Hope – Offers breast cancer patients and families free week-long vacation retreats
Support Services:
4th Angel Mentoring Program – Matches cancer patients and caregivers with trained volunteer mentors with cancer experiences
Abridge – Provides HIPPA compliant solutions to record and summarize medical conversations
Cancer and Careers – Offers resume review service free of charge to cancer patients and survivors
Cleaning for a Reason – Provides free home cleaning to patients battling cancer
Living Beyond Breast Cancer Helpline – Connects you to a trained volunteer who has been diagnosed with breast cancer for support
Look Better Feel Better – Offers beauty guides for makeup, hair, nails and styling for during treatment
Meal Train – Simplifies the organization of meal giving around significant life events with a shared calendar
National LGBT Cancer Network – Works to improve the lives of LGBT cancer survivors and those at risk
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts – Offers virtual art programs that promote healing practices
Transportation:
American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery – 800-227-2345 – Coordinates rides via volunteers, agencies and Lyft
Angel Wheels’ Transportation Assistance – Financial assistance via gas cards, bus/train/flight tickets
CancerCare’s Financial Assistance for Transportation Costs – 800-813-HOPE – Provides grants to cover transportation costs
Corporate Angel Network – Helps cancer patients access the best treatment centers by arranging free travel on corporate aircraft
Head and Neck Cancer Alliance – Provides a one-time only gas card to eligible patients for transportation to treatment
Mercy Medical Angels – Provides transportation assistance via gas cards, bus and airline tickets for patients with life-altering diseases
Wigs:
EBeauty – Provides free wigs for cancer patients
Hair We Share – Provides wigs for all types of hair loss including chemo, alopecia, head trauma/accidents and burns
Impact One – Includes wigs as requested in their HOPE boxes
Living Well Cancer Resource Center – Offers virtual wig consultations and wigs are available at no cost
Pink Heart Funds – Provides free human hair wigs for any woman in the US undergoing hair loss from chemotherapy or radiation
Sharsheret’s Best Face Forward 2.0 – Offers financial subsidies for wigs, cold caps, microblading eyebrows and more
Wigs and Wishes by Martino Cartier – Provides free wigs through participating salons with consultations