Gilda's Club
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Gilda's Club, named in tribute to the late comic actress Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989, is a place where cancer patients and their families can be around other people in the same situation to cope with cancer. It grew to multiple locations across the United States. Gilda's Club was founded by Joanna Bull, Gilda Radner's therapist during the time she had cancer. Gilda's story can be read in her book, It's Always Something.
[edit] Gilda's Club Mission
The mission of Gilda's Club is to provide meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer and their families and friends join with others to build emotional and social support as a supplement to medical care. Free of charge and nonprofit, Gilda's Club offers support and networking groups, lectures, workshops and social events in a nonresidential, homelike setting.
