Support Group For Cancer Patients

About Facing Cancer Together

Cancer affects almost every aspect of a woman’s life: relationships with her spouse, with family and friends, her work and career, her role as a mother, her sense of self—almost nothing remains untouched.

Facing Cancer Together is designed to offer support with cancer, provide a cancer information network and cancer support resources and tools to help women—and those who care about them—manage the social and emotional effects of cancer.

The Facing Cancer Together website provides a online support group for cancer patients where women, and all those connected to them, can find support with cancer and camaraderie with others on the same journey.  Shoppers Drug Mart is the title sponsor of this important first initiative of the Facing Cancer Together program.

Facing Cancer Together is a program of the Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CCTFA) Foundation.

About the Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association Foundation

The Canadian Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association (CCTFA) Foundation is the charitable foundation of Canada’s personal care products industry association. In an effort to give back to the community that supports their industry, in 1992 the member companies of the association pledged their commitment to women with cancer and established the CCTFA Foundation to launch the Look Good Feel Better  program.

Since its inception, the Look Good Feel Better program has helped more than 100,000 women through its signature two-hour cancer workshops, while countless others have been reached through the annual Look Good Feel Better Magazine, toll-free information line and comprehensive website.

Building on this experience, the CCTFA Foundation commissioned a study to identify the psychosocial needs of women with cancer and has published a report entitled “Lives Affected by Cancer: 800 Women Speak”. Acting on report findings and indentifying ways in which the Foundation can make a further contribution to the community, the CCTFA Foundation launched the Facing Cancer Together program in 2010.