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For People with all Types of Cancer

• American Cancer Society
• CancerCare
  • CancerCare Telephone Workshops
• Cancer Support Community (A new organization formed from the merger of Gilda's Clubs and the Wellness Community) 
• LiveStrong: Lance Armstrong Foundation
• National Cancer Institute
• National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

For Young Adults

• i2Y: I'm Too Young for This

Genetic Issues

• FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered

Fertility Issues

• Fertile Hope

Caregiving Issues

• National Family Caregivers Association
• Family Caregiving 101

End of Life Issues

• Sharing your Wishes
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Hospice Foundation of America

Specific Populations

• The Mautner Project: The National Lesbian Health Organization
• The LGBT Cancer Project: Out with Cancer
• Redes en Acicon: The National Latino Cancer Research Network

Specific Types of Cancer

Bladder

• Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network

Brain

• American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)
• National Brain Tumor Foundation (NBTF)

Breast

• Breastcancer.org
• Living Beyond Breast Cancer
  • Living Beyond Breast Cancer Telephone Workshops
• National Breast Cancer Coalition
• Susan G. Komen for the Cure

Childhood Cancers

• Children's Brain Tumor Foundation
• Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation
• Mira's Movement

Colorectal

• Colon Cancer Alliance (CCA)

Esophageal

• Esophageal Cancer Awareness Association 

Kidney

• Kidney Cancer Association

Gynecologic Cancers

• Eyes on the Prize 
• Women's Cancer Network

Head & Neck Cancers

• Support for People with Oral and Head and Neck Cancer (SPOHNC)
• Oral Cancer Foundation

Lung

• The Lung Cancer Alliance 
• American Lung Association

Leukemia & Lymphoma

• The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society
• Lymphoma Foundation of America

Multiple Myeloma

• International Myeloma Foundation
• The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

Ovarian

• SHARE: Self-Help for Women with Breast or Ovarian Cancer
• National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC)
• Ovarian Cancer National Alliance (OCNA)

Pancreatic

• Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN)

Prostate

• National Alliance of State Prostate Cancer Coalitions
  
• Prostate Cancer Foundation
• Us TOO!

Skin

• American Melanoma Foundation
• The Skin Cancer Foundation

Thymic

• Foundation for Thymic Cancer Research

Thyroid

• Thyroid Cancer Survivors' Association, Inc.

Urologic

• American Urological Association Foundation