ACOR is a unique collection of online cancer communities designed to provide timely and accurate information in a supportive environment. It is a free lifeline for everyone affected by cancer & related disorders.
You are not alone! Use one of ACOR's 111 online communities to connect with people like you online and share information and support.
ACOR online communities are for parents, caregivers, family members, and friends to discuss clinical and nonclinical issues and advances pertaining to all forms of a specific disease. This includes patient and caregiver experiences, psychosocial issues, new research, clinical trials, long-term side effects and discussions of current treatment practices.
To find the right online cancer-related community for you, simply use the search form below with cancer-related terms such as "prostate"
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Take me to the following list: Childhood Cancers Side Effects - Quality of Life Diseases Other Than Cancer
Acinic Cell Carcinoma (ACC)
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia - Adult (ALL)
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML)
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma
Alveolar Soft-Part Sarcoma
Angiosarcomas
BAC (Bronchioloalveolar Carcinoma) Lung Cancer
Bladder cancer
Breast Cancer
Breast Cancer in Men
Carcinoid Tumor
Childhood ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia)
Chondrosarcoma
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL)
Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia (CML)
Clear Cell Sarcoma
Colorectal Cancer
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
Desmoid Tumor
Extraskeletal Chondrosarcoma
Fibrosarcomas
Gastrointestinal Carcinoid Tumor
Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST)
Hodgkin Disease
Infantile Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Infantile ALL)
Kaposi's Sarcoma
Kidney Cancer
Leiomyosarcomas
Liposarcoma
Lung Carcinoid Tumor
Lymphangiosarcomas
Malignant Mesothelioma
Malignant Schwannomas
Mantle Cell Lymphoma
Medulloblastoma
MEN1 Pituitary Tumors
Multiple Myeloma
Mycosis Fungoides
Neuroblastoma
Neurofibrosarcoma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Children
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Osteosarcoma
Ovarian Cancer
Pancreatic Cancer
POEMS Syndrome
Prostate Cancer
Rare Cancers
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Retinoblastoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Skin Cancer - Melanoma
Small Cell Lung Cancer
Stomach Cancer
Synovial Cell Sarcomas
Testicular Cancer
Thymoma
Thyroid Cancer
Uterine Sarcoma
Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia
Cancer in Adolescents
Cancer in Children
Childhood ALL (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia)
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma
Ewing's Sarcoma
Infantile Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (Infantile ALL)
Leukemia in Children
Mycosis Fungoides
Neuroblastoma
Retinoblastoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma
Wilms Tumor
Side Effects :: Quality of of Life
Amyloidosis
Congestive Heart Failure
Lupus
For many of us, this mailing list saved our lives or our sanity or both. Besides excellent information, we found comfort and friendship here. Today we can do something in return to make sure that we and others continue to have the same great experience with ACOR.
We're missing a *major* opportunity if we think health IT is limited to giving providers new systems. In my own cancer, sure I read & shared my online medical data in PatientSite, but the most valuable info I got anywhere was from my ACOR cancer patient community. Every condition needs something like this. Microscopic cost, enormous payback!
Transforming Healthcare 2009
Plainly put: no other resource anywhere outside my hospital gave me more accurate information, and nothing in the world gave me the confidence that the information I was getting from my hospital was accurate. My ACOR community was the best resource I had. And it's open to all: repeatedly we hear about people who have no health insurance, for whom ACOR is their only reliable resource.
e-Patient Dave
The very first stop on the Web for anyone newly diagnosed with the big C should be the non-profit ACOR site. Home of 200+ support groups for cancer, the life-changing advice on thisclearinghouse is supplied outside the view of search engines, so you probably won't encounter it by Googling.
Talking with survivors of your type of cancer is the best place to start. It normalizes the experience, provides vital information and support, directs you to the other resources you will need, saves you many wasted hours on the Net, helps you make sure that you're getting the best available medical care, and plugs you into a continuing network within which you can both ask for help and be of help to others.
Kevin Kelly's CoolTools