BELIEF, MEANING & COMFORT
Faith & Spiritual Support
Inclusive resources for religious, spiritual, questioning, and nonreligious members.
Members may share beliefs that comfort them, but no one may pressure, shame, recruit, or claim that faith can replace cancer treatment.
NCI: Faith and spirituality
Learn how cancer can affect values, meaning, hope, and spiritual well-being.
Visit NCIAsk for a chaplain
Hospital chaplains commonly support people of many faiths and people with no religious affiliation. Ask your cancer center or hospice team for spiritual-care services.
Your own community
Consider a trusted clergy member, faith leader, spiritual adviser, cultural elder, or humanist counselor who respects your medical choices and privacy.
Find spiritual care near you
Enter a service and a city, state, or ZIP code. Results open in Google Maps; Cancer Connections does not receive the location you enter.
Grief & Loss space
Connect through shared experience while respecting different beliefs about death, grief, and what may come after life.
Open space