Find support from fellow colorectal cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers in COLONTOWN, an online community of more than 120 “secret” groups on Facebook. Join the support groups that are right for your colon or rectal cancer diagnosis — and connect with others who understand what you are going through.
Here, you’ll find groups based on:
Neighborhoods for stages/phases of disease and ages of patients, open to patients only.
Neighborhoods for side effect and treatment management, as well as specific systemic treatments. Open to patients and carepartners.
Neighborhoods for carepartners only
Neighborhoods that address the far-reaching impacts from cancer, as well as more ways to “find your people” — those with common interests, identities and mindsets. Open to patients and carepartners.
Geographic neighborhoods based on home and/or treatment locations. Open to patients and carepartners.
Geographic neighborhoods based on home and/or treatment locations as well as language-based groups not tied to geography. Open to patients and carepartners.
Neighborhoods that focus on the specific biology of your cancer. Open to patients and carepartners.
Metastases and local treatments for metastases. Open to patients and carepartners.
Spiritual and/or religion based groups. These groups are exempt from COLONTOWN religion guidelines. Open to patients and carepartners.
Education and discussion of CRC science and clinical trials. Open to patients and carepartners.
Neighborhoods specifically for invited consulting physicians as well as patients who are healthcare providers. For providers only.
Neighborhoods for families of pediatric CRC patients. Addresses the unique needs of CRC patients ages 21 and under and their carepartners. There’s no requirement to be a member of COLONTOWN Downtown.
Diagnoses that are related to, but not the same as, traditional CRC. There’s no requirement to be a member of COLONTOWN Downtown.
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