Information hub for patients & caregivers
The information you need. The support you deserve.
Whether you are facing cancer yourself or caring for someone who is, the right information can make the journey easier to navigate.
NFCR brings together trusted resources to help you understand what is happening, prepare for what comes next, and find support along the way.
Patient pathI have cancer / I’m a patientFind information to help you understand your diagnosis, navigate treatment and care, manage everyday life, and move forward after treatment.
Caregiver pathI’m caring for someone with cancerFind practical and emotional support for helping someone through cancer—while taking care of yourself, too.
01 — For patients
Your path through cancer
Wherever you are in your journey, start here
A cancer diagnosis can change the questions you have from one day to the next. You may be trying to understand what your diagnosis means, preparing for treatment, managing life during care, or figuring out what comes after.
You don’t have to navigate every question at once. Start with the part of the journey that feels most relevant to you.
Understanding Your Diagnosis
A diagnosis can bring more questions than answers. Find trusted information to help you understand your cancer, prepare for conversations with your care team, and take the first steps with greater clarity.
Explore Newly Diagnosed With CancerLiving With Cancer
Cancer can become part of everyday life in ways that go beyond treatment. Find information to help you navigate symptoms, routines, relationships, nutrition, and the practical realities of living with cancer.
Explore Living With CancerCancer Treatment & Care
Understand the different aspects of cancer treatment and care, prepare for appointments, and find information to help you navigate decisions alongside your care team.
Explore Cancer Treatment & CareLife After Cancer & Survivorship
Finishing treatment can bring a new set of questions. Find resources for follow-up care, long-term wellbeing, returning to everyday life, and navigating survivorship.
Explore Life After Cancer / Survivorship
02 — For caregivers
Your path as a caregiver
Caring for someone with cancer can be its own journey
A caregiver may be a spouse, partner, parent, child, sibling, friend, or another person who steps in to help. Your role may change from day to day—from listening and accompanying someone to appointments to helping with medications, meals, mobility, or daily care.
You don’t have to know how to do everything. Start with what you need right now.
Supporting Someone After a Diagnosis
The first days and weeks can bring uncertainty and a flood of questions. Find resources to help you understand what’s happening, support your loved one, and prepare for the decisions and conversations ahead.
Explore resources for a new diagnosisSupporting Someone Through Treatment
Treatment can bring new routines, responsibilities, side effects, appointments, and decisions. Find practical guidance for supporting someone through treatment and working alongside their care team.
Explore Cancer Treatment & CareEveryday Care
Cancer can change routines, nutrition, mobility, work, family responsibilities, and the way everyday life works. Find practical guidance for helping with the day-to-day while respecting your loved one’s independence and choices.
Explore everyday careEmotional Support
You don’t need to have the perfect words. Find guidance for talking about cancer, listening through difficult moments, supporting emotional wellbeing, and staying connected.
Explore Emotional SupportCaregiver Self-Care
Caring for someone else can take time, energy, and emotional strength. Find resources for managing stress, asking for help, building a support network, and making space for your own wellbeing.
Explore Caregiver Self-Care
Caregiving for someone you love
The way you care can depend on who you’re caring for
The needs of a parent may be different from those of a partner, child, sibling, or friend. NFCR’s caregiver resources can help you find guidance that feels relevant to the relationship you’re navigating.
04 — Cancer-type specific resources
Because every cancer brings different questions
Cancer isn’t one disease. The information that matters to someone dealing with breast cancer may be very different from what’s relevant to someone facing leukemia, lung cancer, or another cancer.
Explore NFCR’s cancer-specific resources for information about individual cancers, including risk, prevention, detection, treatment, research, and emerging discoveries.
05 — Caregiver stories & tools
Stories, tools & practical support
Resources to help you care with greater confidence
Caregiving can bring questions you never expected to ask and situations you may not know how to navigate. The right resources can offer perspective, practical guidance, and useful tools for the moments when you need them most.
Explore experiences from other caregivers, practical advice, questions to take to appointments, checklists, guides, and other resources designed to help you navigate the realities of caregiving.
Caregiver Stories
Hear from people who have supported loved ones through cancer and are sharing what they learned along the way.
Read Caregiver StoriesCaregiver Tips
Explore practical advice for communication, daily care, supporting your loved one, and navigating the realities of caregiving.
Browse Caregiver TipsQuestions to Ask Your Doctor
Go into appointments prepared with questions that can help you and your loved one better understand their care.
Get the Questions GuideChecklists & Guides
Use practical resources to help organize information, keep track of important details, and navigate caregiving with greater confidence.
Browse Caregiver GuidesPrintable Resources
Find easy-to-use resources you can print, save, and keep close when you need them.
Explore Printable Resources
Helping you navigate throughout your journey
Take the next step in your cancer journey
Whether you’re facing cancer yourself or caring for someone you love, you can move from information to the next part of your journey.
If you’re newly diagnosed
Start with clear, practical information to help you understand your diagnosis, prepare for what’s ahead, and make sense of your first steps.
Explore Newly Diagnosed With CancerIf you’re living with cancer
Find information to help you navigate everyday life, treatment, symptoms, relationships, and the challenges that can come with living with cancer.
Explore Living With CancerIf you’re navigating treatment
Understand cancer treatment and care, prepare for conversations with your care team, and find resources to help you through the experience.
Explore Cancer Treatment & CareIf you’re caring for someone
Find guidance for supporting someone through diagnosis, treatment, and everyday life—along with resources to help you care for yourself.
Explore Caregiver ResourcesIf you’re looking beyond treatment
Explore resources for follow-up care, long-term wellbeing, life after cancer, and survivorship.
Explore Life After Cancer & SurvivorshipIf you want to understand a specific cancer
Explore cancer-specific information covering different cancer types, research, prevention, detection, treatment, and emerging discoveries.
Explore Cancer TypesInformation you can come back to
Cancer care changes. Your questions can too.
You may not need the same information throughout your cancer experience. A question about nutrition today may become a question about fatigue tomorrow, and something that feels overwhelming during treatment may become easier to navigate with the right information and support.
This hub is designed to be something you can return to whenever a new question comes up.
This information is educational and is not a substitute for medical advice. Always talk with your care team about your diagnosis and treatment.
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