Local Cancer Support Groups
People diagnosed with cancer and their families face many challenges that may leave them feeling overwhelmed, afraid, and alone. It can be difficult to cope with these challenges or to talk to even the most supportive family members and friends. Often, support groups can help people affected by cancer feel less alone and can improve their ability to deal with the uncertainties and challenges that cancer brings. Support groups give people who are affected by similar diseases an opportunity to meet and discuss ways to cope with the illness.
List of Support Groups by Cancer Site:
All Cancers
- Gilda's Club
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets from 6:30-8:00PM on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
Contact: Gilda's Club at 615-329-1124
Brain
- Gilda's Club
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets from 6:30-8:00PM on the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
Contact: Gilda's Club at 615-329-1124
Breast Cancer
- American Cancer Society Breast Cancer Support Group
American Cancer Society
2008 Charlotte Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets monthly, call 615-327-0991 to obtain meeting schedule.- Lincoln County (American Cancer Society)
Meets every2nd Thursday of each month at 6pm
Patrick Rehab-Wellness Center, Fayetteville, TN
Phone # 327-0991 (American Cancer Society) - Williamson County (American Cancer Society)
Meets 1st Tuesday of each month at 6:30pm
Williamson Medical Center
Phone # 615-435-6733 - Montgomery County (American Cancer Society)
Meets every 3rd Tuesday of the month at 5pm
Montgomery County Public Library, Clarksville, TN
Phone # 615-327-0991 (American Cancer Society) - Rutherford County (American Cancer Society)
Meets at Middle Tennessee Medical Center, Murfreesboro, TN
Phone # 615-327-0991(American Cancer Society) Call for meeting times
- Lincoln County (American Cancer Society)
- Gilda's Club Breast Cancer Group
Gilda's Club
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets from 6:30-8:00PM on the 3rd Wednesday of each month.
Contact: Gilda's Club at 615-329-1124
- Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation Cancer College
Patient Resource Center
2410 Patterson Street, Suite 110
Nashville, TN
Classes/sessions are open to the public. Call for current schedule of classes.
For information and reservations, Contact: 615-467-1936
- After Breast Cancer (ABC) Program
YMCA – Cool Springs
121 Seaboard Lane
Brentwood, TN 37027
Monthly educational seminars meet at 7:00PM on the last Tuesday of each month
Designed specifically for breast cancer survivors, the program is free, membership to the YMCA is not required. In addition the program offers individualized exercise programs designed by qualified professional Personal Trainers, Group exercise sessions, Yoga classes. Personalized nutritional counseling.
Contact: Wendy Hardaway at 615-661-4200
- H.O.P.E.
This program provides a cancer patient with the opportunity to work with an exercise specialist to address her unique physical and mental needs during and after treatment. C.O.P.E. helps a patient restore and maintain an optimum level of physical and mental health through physical activity among a group of individuals who are also undergoing cancer treatment. It is an individualized, progressive wellness program that is tailored to a person's abilities and knowledge. Call 222-2056 for more information.
Bone Marrow
- Vanderbilt Hospital
11 North Conference Room
11th Floor, Main Hospital
Meets every Wednesday from 4-5:00 PM.
Contact: Linda Hudson at 615. 343.6546
Colo-Rectal
- Gilda's Club
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets at 10:30AM-Noon on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.
Contact: Gilda's Club at 615.329.1124
Melanoma Group
- Gilda's Club
1707 Division Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets from 2:00-3:30PM on the 2nd Wednesday of each month.
Contact: Gilda's Club at 615-329-1124
Laryngectomy
- New Voice Club
American Cancer Society
2008 Charlotte Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets at 2:00 PM (2nd Sunday of every other month.)
Contact: 615-327-0991
Leukemia/Blood Related Caners
- Family Support Group
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
404 BNA Drive; Suite 102
Nashville, TN 37217-2571
Provides many support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events free of charge. Meets at 6:30PM on the 1st Monday of each month at Gilda's Club.
Contact: Mary Winslo at 615-331-2980
Lung
- Lung Cancer Networking Group
Gilda’s Club Nashville
1707 Division Street, Nashville, TN 37203
Contact: 615.329.1124
Meets on the 4th Friday of each month from 12:30 –2:00 PM.
Open to patients, survivors, friends and family members dealing with a lung cancer diagnosis.
Ostomy
- United Ostomy Association
American Cancer Society
2008 Charlotte Ave
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets at 2:00 PM (Last Sunday of each month)
Contact: 615-327-0991 or 615-228-8432
Prostate
- Us Too/Nashville
Baptist Hospital’s Gladys Stringfield Owen Conference Center, Rooms A & B
2000 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37203
Meets on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM (except July & December)
Contact: call into general cancer center line at Baptist 615.284.7300
General Support Groups
- BUMC Cancer Support Group
Brentwood United Methodist Church (BUMC)
309 Franklin Road, Room A390
Brentwood, TN 37027
Meets at 7:00 PM on the 3rd Thursday of each month
Contact: Paula Fogelberg at 615-373-2425 or 615-373-3663
- Cancer Support Group
St. Stephen Catholic Community
Room 105, Holy Family Center
14544 Lebanon Rd
Old Hickory, TN
Contact: Kim at 615-812-2056
Meets at 7:00PM on the 4th Tuesday of each month. Meetings are open to all - patients, survivors and caregivers.
- Gilda’s Club Nashville
1707 Division Street | Nashville, TN 37203
Contact: 615-329-1124
Gilda’s Club is a place for cancer patients and their families and friends. It offers support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events free of charge.
- Multi County Cancer Support Network
110-B Lauderdale Street
Tullahoma, TN 37388
Phones: 931-393-4443 or 800-497-4322
Fax: 931.393.4413
E-mail: cancernetwork@cafes.net
Provides support for cancer patients, family members & survivors and serves the Franklin, Coffee, Moore, Lincoln, Grundy, Marion & Bedford counties- Estill Springs group meets at 7:00 PM on the 1st Thursday of each month at the Nazarene Church in Estill Springs.
- Shelbyville group meets 2nd Tuesday at 7:00 PM every other month at the Union Planters Bank (Elm Street Branch). Call 800.497.4322 to obtain schedule
- American Cancer Society General Cancer Support Groups:
- Maury County
Meets at Maury Regional Medical Center, Columbia, TN
Phone # 931-381-1111 - Dickson County
Meets at Tri-Star Bank in Dickson, TN
Phone # 615-441-1325 - Sumner County
Meets at Sumner Regional Medical Center, Gallatin, TN
Phone # 615-230-5070 - Robertson County
Meets at First United Methodist Church, Springfield, TN
Phone # 615-327-0992
- Maury County
- I Can Cope
American Cancer Society
Meets in multiple locations in the following counties.
Phone # 615-327-0991- Call for locations and meeting schedules.- Davidson
- Dickson
- Rutherford
- Smith
- Sumner
- Trousdale
- Williamson
Other Support Groups, providing services over the telephone or Internet
- Cancer Survivors Network
Toll Free 877-333-4673
Internet site: www.acscsn.org
Created by and for cancer survivors, the Cancer Survivors Network (CSN) is a telephone and Internet-based support service. From the time of diagnosis and beyond, anyone experiencing cancer is invited to use this service. Listen to or read (Internet) 100 hours of pre-recorded discussions and stories. Find and connect with others like yourself. It is free, easy to use, and accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
- Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
Toll Free 800-221-2141 (English)
800-986-9505 (Spanish)
Internet site: www.y-me.org
A telephone and Internet-based site that offers breast cancer information, resources and support for patients, survivors, families, and friends. The telephone hotline is staffed by trained peer counselors who are breast cancer survivors. It is a convenient, anonymous resource for breast cancer information, as well as support. Callers can be matched with a survivor, patient and/or supporter having had a similar experience with breast cancer. On the Internet site, guests can submit questions concerning breast health and/or breast cancer, which are answered by a breast cancer survivor.
