Special note: Click here to branch to the Internet version of the 4th edition of the Cancer Resource Guide.

There are so many support groups addressing cancer that we have divided them into sections. Browse below, or click for a specific type of support group.  Each section is marked with a .

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All Types of Cancer

This monthly afternoon group gives those with any type of cancer who like to write prose or poetry a chance to share their writing, experiences, and feelings with friends in an informal setting.  To learn more, call the Carolinas Health Care Cancer Support Center (Meg Turner) at 704/355-7283 weekdays 8 am to 4 pm.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A professionally-facilitated group helping people incorporate healing techniques into their lives.  Open to anyone with any type of cancer, it runs in the evening.  The leader teaches cognitive behavioral and guided imagery techniques including meditation, imagery, relaxation, and stress reduction.  For more information about their weekly meetings, call the group's leader at 704/332-8394 weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or the Buddy Kemp Caring House (where the group meets) at 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 9-5. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A professionally facilitated group for people with any type of cancer as well as for family and friends.  Call Meg Turner at the Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center at 704/355-7283 weekdays from 8-4 for details. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

This small, informal group provides warmth, emotional support, and information for people with cancer as well as caregivers and family members.  They deal with both light and serious issues.  For details, call a member at 704/542-1541 any day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.   (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A Christian-based program which has a monthly meeting organized around a special professional who speaks on medical, emotional, spiritual, and other topics related to cancer.  The group includes in part those who have cancer, their families, friends, and caregivers, and whoever who wants to be there.  Informal sharing of support occurs before and after the meetings.  For more information, click here to see their web site, call the First Baptist Church at 704/369-2138 Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., or click here to e-mail a leader.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

This twice a month group is for caregivers of those with any form of cancer.  To learn more, call the Buddy Kemp Caring House at 704/384-5223 weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Here's a group for cancer survivors and their families providing an opportunity for sharing, speakers, and a free lunch provided by the group at the Lake Norman Regional Medical Center meeting room on the second Tuesday of each month at noon.  The group describes itself as "spunky"!  No RSVP needed--just get yourself over there with an appetite.  Here are the directions:  Park in the hospital parking lot if you can--if it's full, there's a lot for a medical office building right next door.  Enter the main entrance facing Fairview Road.  Ask the volunteer greeter for directions to the cafeteria, or just turn right, go past the elevators, and turn left, go down the hall, and the meeting rooms are on the right.  Get there early to get a better parking space and have a chance to go through the cafeteria line to get the meeting when it starts at noon.   To confirm meetings or for answers to any more specific questions, call a leader of the group at 704/716-4003 or another leader at  704/660-4859 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m.to 5 p.m.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Click here to see the list of types of cancer support groups 

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Breast and Gynecological Cancer

A group for women specializing in laughter, ice cream socials, enjoying, and coping.  The group often uses Christian principles.  For details, call a member of the group at 704/662-0770 (Mooresville) on Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to noon or another member at 704/489-2711 (Denver) any day 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.  You may also click here to e-mail a leader.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A group for women providing special speakers, mutual emotional support, and yes, lunch.  For details about their twice a month meetings at Buddy Kemp Caring House in Charlotte, call 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

An organization providing informal support and educational group meetings, special activties, and mostly a positive environment for women (and sometimes their partners) with breast cancer. For detail, click here to see their delightful web site home page, click here for their calendar of activities, or call a member of the group at 704/370-7773 any time any day for a return message.  Their meetings are at the CBF Pink House (their location) at 1607 East Morehead St.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A group for women providing emotional support and useful medical information dealing with any issue relating to breast cancer. For details, call Buddy Kemp Caring House at 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A small, enthusiasic group of women of color who have or have had breast cancer.  The group provides a safe haven to share concerns, questions, and answers as well as to learn new ways to regain control of one's life.  Women come from Mecklenburg, Gaston, Lincoln, Cabarrus, Cleveland, and other nearby counties.  For info, call the Buddy Kemp Caring House at 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

These folks meet regularly to give women with breast cancer a chance to hear experts, share support and activities, and have fun.  They meet every other month at a variety of locations in or around Lake Wylie.  For details about their meetings and other activities, call a member of the group at 803/547-3064 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.  In most of Charlotte you can dial number without entering the "1" access code.   (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A group for women dealing with ovarian cancer.  For details call Buddy Kemp Caring House at Presbyterian Hospital at 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A friendly group of women who have ovarian cancer.  They meet monthly in the early afternoon near CMC (Morehead Medical Center).  For details, click here to see the CMC Cancer Support Group  or call Meg Turner at CMC at 704/355-7283 Monday through Friday 8-4.

Nos reunimos el Segundo lunes del mes. Este es un grupo para mujeres hispanas que tienen Cáncer del Seno. Las invitamos a compartir, a recibir educación, apoyo y amistad.  Sitio: Blumenthal Cancer Center.  Hora: 5:00-6:30 pm, Segundo lunes de cada mes.  Llame a: Magbis Love.  Telefonol:704-446-1548    (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

FORCE is a national organization working to improve the lives of those affected by hereidtary breast and ovarian cancer.  Their local chapter (including in part a support group) became dormant in 2010; they are looking for a volunteer to become the new Outreach Coordinator for our area to set up local meetings as well as to plan and set up local events.  For more information, click here to visit their national web site and contact Sandy Cohen (sandrac@facingourrisk.org), Director of Outreach Coordinators, with any questions.    (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Children and Teens with Cancer (or loved ones with cancer)

A group for teens and young adults with a cancer diagnosis.  For details about their monthly evening meetings, call Buddy Kemp Caring House Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 704/384-5223.    (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A group open to any family member of a child with cancer. This includes parents, siblings, and the child him or herself.  For details about their monthly evening meetings, call Buddy Kemp Caring House Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 704/384-5223.    (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

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Head, neck, and oral cancers

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This is an informal, friendly group giving people with any oral, head or neck cancer, their caregivers, and their family and chance to eat Krispy Kreme donuts, share emotional support, share medical information, and have a good time.  For details, call a member of the group at 704/364-7119 Mon-Thu 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. or on Sunday from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

This group grew out of the experience and energy of a wonderful woman whose husband died from a glioblastoma.  It's a group for adults with any brain tumor as well as their families and friends.  They provide emotional support, help medical information, and friendship.  For details call BKCSC at 704/384-5223 Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Leukemia and releated disorders

This group is taking a hopefully brief break while a new leader is located.  Previously it had been a monthly group and a one-to-one matching program for family, friends, and people with any form of leukemia, Hodgkin's, lymphoma, myeloma, or myelodysplastic disorder. We'll post the contact information here as soon as the group starts to be re-organized.   (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Other cancers (prostate, skin, lung cancer etc.)

A group for men who have prostate cancer as well as for their families and friends.  Call 704/384-5223 weekdays 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for details about their monthly meetings which alternate programs and sharing. (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

A group for those affected in any way by melanoma. For details, call Meg Turner, the leader of the group at 704/355-7283 Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.  (Click for overview of Cancer resources)

Click here to see the list of types of cancer support groups

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Inactive groups which are no
longer meeting and their last meeting dates

Click here to read and/or print from the SupportWorks Cancer Resource Guide, an extensive listing of  local, statewide, and nationwide resources for people with cancer, their families, friends, and interested professionals in Mecklenburg County.

This service provides comprehensive data and referral assistance for nonprofit and government resources in the NC counties of Mecklenburg, Cabarrus, Union, and Anson counties and in or near the city of Mooresville, NC.  If you are calling on a landline or residential phone in one of those counties, dial 2-1-1.  If that fails, if you are calling on a cell phone, or if you are calling from anywhere else in NC, call 866/744-7778.  For calls from out of NC, use their local number of 704/377-1100. Although they are open 24 hours a day, you may wish to call weekdays from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. for non-emergency questions.

The friendly staff at this full service library can help you research any medical topic using their up-to-date computers, databases, journals and books.  No previous research experience or medical knowledge is required. Click here for details or call them at 704-384-6393.

MedLinePlus

This service of the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health is one of the better one-stop shops for beginning your search on the internet for medical information.  For those of you who live in Mecklenburg and Union counties in NC, we recommend that you contact the Health Library for more personal assistance from the experts there in searching for reliable medical information. Click here for their details.

Click to link to any of these lists of national groups: 

The Self-Help Sourcebook OnLine Index
The Genetic Alliance
NORD (National Organization for Rare Diseases) Database

	The Cancer Information Service of the National Cancer Institute provides medical literature by mail, help in interpreting that literature, and answers to questions about treatments, clinical trials, pain control, and other cancer-related subjects.  Call 800/422-6237 weekdays 9:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
	Click here to branch to the American Self-Help Clearinghouse listing of toll-free phone numbers for a wide variety of topics.