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Cancer Support Groups
Around the Bend
There are other people in your shoes. RiverBend
offers a variety of support groups for you, your
family, and your caregivers.
Click here to see a full listing of
upcoming meetings, along with times, locations, and
contacts for cancer support groups in the area.
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South Bend, Indiana
 Women in Touch Cancer Support
-South Bend, Indiana |
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Meets on the first Tuesday of the
month at 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Leighton Center.
For
more information call Myra Butts at
574-647-6943. |
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South Bend, Indiana |
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Anybody with a breast cancer
diagnosis is welcomed into Bosom Buddies. Meetings
are scheduled for 12:30 PM at Tippecanoe Place
Restaurant on the second Tuesday of each month. Come
for lunch or just a cup of coffee. Speakers
are occasionally scheduled. In the past, these have
included oncologists, nutritionists, physical
therapists, and a plastic surgeon. For more
information, contact RiverBend Cancer Services at
574.287.4197. Or call Valerie Cope at 574.277.6038
or
e-mail
valcope@yahoo.com. |
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Cancer Survivorship Support
Group, South Bend, Indiana |
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If you have finished with
treatment and have questions about the future, long
term side effects of treatment-both physically and
emotionally, this group is for you. The Cancer
Survivorship Support Group will meet 5:30 to 6:30
p.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month at the
River Park Branch of the South Bend Library,
beginning Thursday, January 28th. This group
is co-facilitated by Judy Kobb, LMHC of RiverBend
Cancer Services and Melissa Collins, RN of Michiana
Hematology Oncology, PC. Questions? Call
Judy at 574-287-4197. |
South Bend, Indiana |
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The Young
Survivors Support Group meets on the third Thursday
of each month at 5:30 p.m., at Saint Joseph
Regional Medical Center Cancer Institute, located at 707
E. Cedar Street, South Bend Indiana. For more
information please contact Kim Zobrosky at
574.251.0916, visit their website at
www.youngsurvivorsbacktolife.com or e-mail
youngsurvivors@sbcglobal.net.
To view videos of breast cancer survivor's, some
of whom are local please visit
www.livingconversations.com |
 GynaGirls-support
group for women who have had gynecologic cancer-South
Bend, Indiana |
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Our mission is to support women with
gynecologic cancer, to educate other in recognizing
symptoms of gynecologic cancer and to be proactive
in health issues. We meet the first Monday of
the month from 4:30 to 5:30 in the lower level of
the Saint Joseph Cancer Institute, Pavillion II, 707
E. Cedar Street in South Bend. For more
information, please call Nancy White at
574-259-4922. |
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Man to Man
for prostate cancer survivors-South Bend, Indiana |
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Meets the 1st
Thursday of every month from 7:00pm – 8:30pm
at Michiana Hematology Oncology ,
707 E. Cedar St., Suite 200 (Oncology),
South Bend, IN. For more information
call the American Cancer Society (574)257- 9789. |
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Multiple Myeloma Support Group-South Bend,
Indiana |
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Meets the 4th Wednesday of every
month at
7:00pm at the South Bend Library – Downtown,
304 S. Main St.,
South Bend, IN. For more information
please call Sandra Winicur at (574)288 – 5372. |
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Michiana NuTones-South
Bend, Indiana |
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Michiana NuTones is a support
group for individuals who have had laryngectomees.
The group meets the 3rd Sunday of every month
(except January and February) in the Epworth Room at
Memorial Hospital from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
For more information, please call Jill Ross at
(574)647-7333. |
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Woman to Woman (Breast Cancer Education and
Support Group)-South Bend, Indiana |
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Meets the 2nd Wednesday of every
month from 6:00pm – 7:30pm at Grace United Methodist Church,
3012 S. Twyckenham Dr.,
South Bend, IN. For more information,
please contact Lynn Sobecki at (574)647 – 1819. |
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LaPorte, Indiana |
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WeCAN Cancer Support Group-LaPorte,
Indiana |
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The goal of this group is for patients,
families, and caregivers to find support,
encouragement and ease feelings of isolation
and loneliness among those who are dealing
with similar situations. Meets the 2nd
Wednesday of every month at 4:30pm at the Swanson Activity Center,
910 State St.,
La Porte, IN. For more information
contact Draga Beckner at (219)326 – 2311. |
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Michigan City, Indiana |
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Cancer Support Group-Michigan City, Indiana |
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Meets the 3rd Thursday of every
month at
4:00pm in the St. Anthony Memorial Health Center,
3S Oncology Waiting Room,
Michigan City, IN. For more
information, please call Debbie Swanson at (219)861 – 8892. |
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Warsaw, Indiana |
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Cancer Support Group-Warsaw, Indiana |
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Meets the 1st and 3rd
Thursdays of each month from 7:00pm – 8:00pm
in the Warsaw Community Care & Counseling Center,
103 Enterprise Dr.,
Warsaw, IN. For more information,
please call Heidi at (574)268 – 0448 ext. 130. |
| Winamac,
Indiana |
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Cancer Survivor Group-Cancervive-Winamac,
Indiana |
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This support
group meets at Pulaski Memorial Hospital,
Hospital Conference Center,
616 E. 13th St. ,
Winamac, IN. For more information and
meeting dates and times, please call Joan Lauder at (574)946 – 2180. |
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Niles, Michigan |
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Breast Cancer Survivor Support Group of Niles |
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This group
is open to anyone diagnosed with breast cancer (men and women). The
purpose of the group is to provide
education, friendship and support to those
dealing with breast cancer. Meets the 3rd
Wednesday of the month, except for December
at 2:00pm at the First Baptist Church,
1446 E. Main St.,
Niles, MI. for more information please
call Cathy Bair at (269)683 – 2959.
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Cancer Support Group-Niles, Michigan |
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This group is for all types of cancer and patients and
caregivers welcome! Meets the 2nd
and 4th Tuesday of each month
from
1:30pm – 2:30pm at the Niles Senior Citizen Center,
1119 Bill Rd.,
Niles, MI. For more information,
please call Barbara Lane at (269)429 – 3281. |
