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UT Southwestern Medical Center has a caring staff of medical professionals who are committed to enhancing patients’ quality of life, as well as meeting the needs of patients' families. We can direct patients to a variety of informative and enriching support groups and other resources, which can be tailored to meet their specific needs.
At UT Southwestern, excellence in patient care includes helping point the way to resources patients may not be familiar with, but which have proved invaluable to others who have benefited from the medical services. We trust these services will assist patients as they move forward on the road to healing and improved health.
Support Groups
Social Services
Web Sites
Support Groups
WINGS: Women in New Growing Situations
This support group is for women with any cancer diagnosis. Facilitated by Angela Herbrich, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, it meets in the third floor Breast Center Library in the Seay Building on the fourth Monday of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Husbands and Partners of Women With Cancer
This support group is available for husbands, or partners, of women with any cancer diagnosis. It meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 in the Seay Building on the first and third Tuesdays of every month at 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Dialogue Support Group
The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center’s psychologist, Noelle McDonald, Ph.D. and oncology social worker Leslie Fetchen, L.M.S.W. offer this support group for anyone diagnosed with cancer, as well as their caregivers and families. Open to everyone, the group meets in the second floor conference room NC2.406 of the Seay Building on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Social Services
Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Social workers and case managers provide a wide variety of valuable inpatient and outpatient services, including developing a total plan of care. Our social workers perform a comprehensive assessment of needs to determine the extent of services required for care and support, including providing patient and family counseling and coordinating with community providers for transportation, supplies, medication, home health services and financial needs. Social workers also provide arrangements for dietitians to offer nutritional screening and counseling, as well as assist patients in UT Southwestern’s genetic counseling and risk assessment program.
Moncrief Cancer Resources
An affiliate of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern, this nonprofit, community-based organization provides support services to cancer patients and their families in Tarrant County and surrounding areas. Social services, nutritional services, an oncology patient navigator and a transportation program are among the offerings.
Web Sites
Acoustic Neuroma Association
The Acoustic Neuroma Association is a patient member organization, providing information and support to persons diagnosed with or treated for acoustic neuroma and other benign tumors of the cranial nerves.
American Brain Tumor Association
The American Brain Tumor Association was founded in 1973 by two families who lost children to brain tumors.
CyberKnife Society
The CyberKnife Society is an organization dedicated to bringing together diverse medical professionals affiliated with radiotherapy worldwide to foster scholarly exchange of clinical information, and to educate the general public with patient information on using the CyberKnife to treat medical conditions such as cancers, lesions and tumors anywhere throughout the body, even those unreachable by other radiotherapy systems.
International Radiosurgery Support Association
The International Radiosurgery Support Association is an independent organization dedicated to providing emotional support, education and referrals for treatment to patients worldwide.
National Brain Tumor Foundation
The National Brain Tumor Foundation is a national nonprofit health organization dedicated to providing information and support for brain tumor patients, family members and health-care professionals.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service in the Department of Health and Human Services.
The Brain Tumor Society
This Web site offers the latest information for the entire brain-tumor community, from newly diagnosed patients to survivors, families and health-care professionals.
Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
The Trigeminal Neuralgia Association (TNA) was established in 1990 by founding President Claire Patterson and a board of directors comprised of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) patients and their families.
