Living with cancer, whatever the outcome

No one chooses to have cancer, but you can choose how to respond to it. You might ask, what are my priorities? Goals? Choices? How will this affect my family? What should I say? Has anyone felt this way before?

Gilda's Club connects people who are asking some of those same questions as they learn to live with cancer. Whether you have cancer yourself, or you're experiencing cancer with someone you love, Gilda's Club is there.

Social & emotional support, are as important as medical treatment

Studies tell us - and most cancer experts concur - that people who seek extra social and emotional support during their cancer experience feel better about themselves and the future. As one member said, "I went to the hospital to be cured. I went to Gilda's Club to be healed."

No One Knows better than You

When it comes to cancer, those going through it are the experts. No one knows better than you how you are feeling and what you need. At Gilda's Club, you can explore ways to live with cancer that suit you best.

For men, women & children

Saturday Night Live Comedienne Gilda Radner had a dream to create places where men, women and children come together to learn to live with cancer. She felt that while facing illness, life should be lived to the fullest. Today, that dream is realized as Gilda's Club Grand Rapids joins more than 20 other affiliates worldwide. Gilda Radner died in 1989 of cancer, but her life continues to bless us all.

Cancer facts

• There will be more than 44,200 new and serious cancers diagnosed in Michigan this year.
• Those cancers will impact more than 265,000 people, counting spouses, children, friends and family members whose lives will be changed because someone they love has cancer.
• Men have a one in two chance of getting cancer; women one in three.
• Cancer Costs the US more than $70 billion annually in lost productivity alone.

Figures based on information from the American Cancer Society, Cancer Facts & Figures.

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