Advocacy Organizations

Patient advocacy groups help patients, their families, and their caregivers navigate the cancer landscape. These groups work to ensure cancer patients receive appropriate and timely care, education, and financial assistance, when needed. Below, please find links to advocacy organizations, organized by their mission.

From Polaris

This list offers organizations that offer support and services for people with any type of cancer. To view groups classified by specific disease type, view Cancer.Net’s Cancer-Specific Resources list.

Agencies, Advocacy Groups, and Organizations Advancing Cancer Research:Research:

Here are additional resources that address various forms of cancer. They provide general knowledge and information on coping with the various forms of the disease.

A lung cancer advocate can be helpful in your fight against lung cancer. Check out these 8 groups dedicated to lung cancer to get support.

Fifteen Leading Charities and Advocacy Groups Join Forces to Change the Way Metastatic Breast Cancer is Understood and to Increase Focus on Research | Susan G. Komen®

ICAN has a small staff and more than 1100 volunteers worldwide. With our volunteer leadership representing 17 different time zones, we literally work around the clock, focusing on our Personalized Medicine Cancer Case Navigation Programs, health information technology issues, legislative initiatives, and research projects.

Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance joined together to form Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance (OCRFA).

FORCE is the only national nonprofit organization devoted to hereditary breast and ovarian cancer. Our mission includes support, education, advocacy, awareness, and research.

Prostate Cancer Advocates

ACS CAN is the nation's leading cancer advocacy organization that is working every day to make cancer issues a national priority.

“We unite the cancer community to reduce the global cancer burden, to promote greater equity, and to integrate cancer control into the world health and development agenda.”

Friends of Cancer Research drives collaboration among partners from every healthcare sector to power advances in science, policy and regulation that speed life-saving treatments to patients.

The American College of Surgeons is dedicated to improving the care of the surgical patient and to safeguarding standards of care in an optimal and ethical practice environment.

SHARE Cancer Support's mission is to create and sustain a supportive network and community of women affected by breast and ovarian cancers. SHARE Cancer Support brings these women and their families and friends together with others who have experienced breast or ovarian cancer, and provides participants with the opportunity to receive and exchange information, support, strength and hope.

The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, PhRMA, represents the country’s leading biopharmaceutical researchers and biotechnology companies.

Lung Cancer Alliance is dedicated to saving lives and advancing research by empowering those living with and at risk for lung cancer.

We’re a local organization that serves women and men with all types of cancer. There are also national organizations that focus on specific types of cancer, specific issues, and specific populations.