Hi everyone! I work for OCF and am currently reaching out to cancer and treatment facilities nationwide to educate them about the survivor/patient forum. Our goal is to send each hospital our web support cards to have available for new and existing patients. These cards tell them about the OCF website and information. I have had a lot of luck getting in touch with the social service departments, however, the radiation and chemo departments have been a challenge because they are so busy working with patients, they don't always have time to come to the phone to speak with me.

If any of you are going back to these departments for treatments or recall visits and would be willing to take some of OCF's literature with you, please let me know and I will send you some materials for your next appointment. I can be reached at the OCF office 949.273.4400 or you can always email me, [email protected].

Thank you so much!!!

First, let me say that OCF decided to spend the money for this outreach for several very specific reasons. The first is the survivors on this board are a wealth of information to newcomers down the path of this very rocky road. The supplemental information that you all provide to them, makes their journey easier. An informed patient is one that makes the best decisions.

Second, besides the technical help and question answering, emotional support is more than a comfort when you are going through this, it is a therapeutic aid of high importance. This forum/support group family has that in spades.

But it has not been lost on me either that the ranks of our volunteers, our donors, those that make OCF even possible, come from people who have been served here on this board. They are the one who are there when we email blast for a need the foundation has. They are the future population we help, and who in return, help the cause and the foundation.