While many are aware of the services provided by the Cancer Support Community, it has remained a  treasure within our community to be found by those when they are in their most need. The CSC provides assistance and support to patients and their families through a network of more than 50 affiliates, 100 satellite locations and online.

The "Frankly Speaking About Cancer" collection is the CSC's landmark cancer education series that provides sound medical and psychological inforrmation to cancer patients and their loved ones.

The materials are made available in print, online (to include an Internet radio show), and in-person programs in language easy for the average person to understand. Best of all, the series is free.

To learn more about the Cancer Support Community, to find out if there is an affiliate in your area, to find out about the schedule for the radio show, or, to browse and possibly order books from their "Frankly Speaking About Cancer" series, Click Here.

The longtime chorus teacher at Plantation High who helped teach X Factor winner Melanie Amaro to sing died this week of lymphoma at age 48 after being diagnosed only a week ago.

Gary Rivenbark's sudden passing reduced his most famous student to tears, Plantation High Principal Susan Bruining said Friday. He was the kind of teacher who bought prom tickets for the teens who couldn't afford them, and made even the kids forced into chorus because there weren't any other electives love it.

"His qualities extended [beyond] what he taught, it's how he taught, the way he treated people," Bruining said. "It's going to be very hard to replace [him], if not impossible."

"He touched the lives of many people," said Chuck Stanley, the church director of traditional worship ministries. "He was a great teacher of music. He had a great love for his students and they had a great love for him. He was really about helping them become better as musicians. He was also a great friend, somebody who was always there for you and he cared about a lot of people."

To read the complete story, Click Here.

For more than 30 years Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization has been working to assure that no one faces breast cancer alone.  Y-ME matches callers with a peer counselor who has faced a similar breast

cancer experience through their Survivor Match program.  The program is provided for patients, caregivers, partners, and loved ones.

For more information about Y-ME, Click Here, or call (800) 221-2141.

SHARE's volunteers are women who have had breast or ovarian cancer. Some have had early stage cancer while others have recurrent ovarian cancer or metastatic breast cancer.

Contact SHARE and they will match you with a volunteer whose cancer experience is similar to what you're going through.  They help with the shock of diagnosis and to think through your choices and find hope.

For more information about SHARE, Click Here, or, for Breast Cancer call (866-891-2392, and for Ovarian Cancer call (866) 719-1204. For help in Spanish, call (212) 719-4454.