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UT Southwestern Medical Center has a caring staff of medical professionals who are committed to enhancing patients’ quality of life, as well as meeting the needs of patients’ families. We can direct patients to a variety of informative and enriching support groups and other resources, which can be tailored to meet their specific needs.
At UT Southwestern, excellence in patient care includes helping point the way to resources patients may not be familiar with, but which have proved invaluable to others who have benefited from the medical services. We trust these services will assist patients as they move forward on the road to healing and improved health.
Support Groups
WINGS: Women in New Growing Situations
This support group is for women with any cancer diagnosis. Facilitated by Angela Herbrich, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, it meets in the third floor Breast Center Library in the Seay Building on the fourth Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Husbands and Partners of Women With Cancer
This support group is available for husbands, or partners, of women with any cancer diagnosis. It meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 in the Seay Building on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Dialogue Support Group
The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s psychologist, Noelle McDonald, Ph.D. and oncology social worker Leslie Fetchen, L.M.S.W. offer this support group for anyone diagnosed with cancer, as well as their caregivers and families. Open to everyone, the group meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 of the Seay Building on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Social Services
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Social workers and case managers provide a wide variety of valuable inpatient and outpatient services, including developing a total plan of care. Our social workers perform a comprehensive assessment of needs to determine the extent of services required for care and support, including providing patient and family counseling and coordinating with community providers for transportation, supplies, medication, home health services and financial needs. Social workers also provide arrangements for dietitians to offer nutritional screening and counseling, as well as assist patients in UT Southwestern’s genetic counseling and risk assessment program.
Moncrief Cancer Resources
An affiliate of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern, this nonprofit, community-based organization provides support services to cancer patients and their families in Tarrant County and surrounding areas. Social services, nutritional services, an oncology patient navigator and a transportation program are among the offerings.
Web Sites
American Breast Cancer Foundation
The American Breast Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide a fighting chance to every life threatened by breast cancer regardless of age, race, sex or financial challenge through screening-assistance programs, research, and support for breast cancer patients and their families.
ACS Reach to Recovery
For more than 30 years, the American Cancer Society Reach to Recovery program has helped both men and women cope with breast cancer.
BreastCancer.org
BreastCancer.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete and up-to-date information about breast cancer and considers itself to be the “lifeline” to the best medical information about breast cancer.
Look Good, Feel Better
Founded in 1989, Look Good, Feel Better is a free, nonmedical, brand-neutral, national public-service program supported by corporations to help women offset appearance-related changes from cancer treatment.
National Breast Cancer Foundation
The National Breast Cancer Foundation’s mission is to save lives by increasing awareness of breast cancer and by providing mammograms for the needy. Founded by Janelle Hail, herself a breast cancer survivor of 25 years, the National Breast Cancer Foundation brings compassion, understanding and inspiration through public education programs across the U.S.
Susan G Komen Foundation
The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was founded in 1982 on a promise made between two sisters – Susan Goodman Komen and Nancy Goodman Brinker. More than 20 years later, the Komen Foundation is a global leader in the fight against breast cancer, working through a network of U.S. and international affiliates and events, such as the Komen Race for the Cure®.
Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
The mission of the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization is to ensure, through information, empowerment and peer support, that no one faces breast cancer alone.
