Important Changes

to CancerCare's Financial
Assistance Program

Dear Clients and Colleagues,

These are extraordinarily difficult times for us and those we serve, and CancerCare regrets to report that, due to the enormous demand for our financial assistance services and a lack of adequate funding, our financial grants for men with cancer (which includes funds for transportation, homecare, childcare, and pain medication) were terminated on October 20, 2008. However, since we have an existing number of generous grants, we will continue to provide financial assistance to men who live in:

• the New York City metro area (including Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester counties), Connecticut, or New Jersey; or
• San Diego and Imperial Counties, California.

Please be advised we will continue to:

• honor any client request that was received by our office by October 20, 2008;
• offer financial assistance to women and children, since we have generous grants that are restricted to those groups; and
• actively work to reverse this situation.

At this time, we cannot confirm when or if our financial grants for men will be reinstated. We will continue to offer men our other free services, including education, information, support groups, individual counseling, and a financial fact sheet on alternative resources.

Please note that we are backed up 10 days in processing all applications that we currently have. If you want to know the status of an application you have sent, please email Jane Levy at jlevy@cancercare.org with the name of the client and the date sent. Please be patient as we try to locate any application. The demand for our help has been unprecedented, and we are working hard to reverse this situation.

Please check our web site periodically for updates about our financial assistance grants.

If you have questions about these changes, please call 1-800-813-HOPE (4673) or visit www.cancercare.org.

You may download a PDF of this flyer detailing the changes to our financial assistance program.

Sincerely,
Jane Levy, LCSW
Director of Patient Assistance Programs, CancerCare