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The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices. |
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The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke. |
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The American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary health organization in the United States, with a National Office and constituent and affiliate associations around the country. Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, the American Lung Association today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. |
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The Texas Cancer Data Center (TCDC) provides information on health professionals, health facilities, demographics and statistics, and community resources via the Internet at no charge. TCDC is an information service, funded by the Texas Cancer Council and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, dedicated to empowering Texans with the knowledge needed to reduce the human and economic impact of cancer. |
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The Breast Cancer Resource Center is a non-profit organization created by breast cancer survivors. The center serves women with breast cancer as well as their family and friends, and exists to enable women to be active, knowledgeable participants in their healthcare. |
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Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas provides a "home-away-from-home" for families with critically ill or injured children undergoing treatment in Austin area hospitals. Many of the children are treated for conditions associated with premature birth, others for cancer or other life-threatening illnesses and organ ailments, while others are being treated for serious accidents. |
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The Wright House Wellness Center (Austin, TX), formerly The HIV Wellness Center, was founded in 1988 by PLWAs (Persons Living With AIDS) and several holistic health practitioners who believed that many symptoms of HIV could be effectively treated with holistic therapies. |
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Wonders & Worries (Austin, TX) provides an array of therapeutic activities geared toward children, youth and families coping with chronic or life-threatening illnesses. These activities include: support groups, individual counseling, play therapy/health care play, parent consultation, professional consultation, and informal
support/recreational activities. |
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Austin Area Candlelighters provides comprehensive psychosocial support and service for children with cancer and similar blood disorders, and their family. The organizational vision is that no family should have to go through their journey with cancer alone. |
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As the largest private cancer treatment center in Central Texas, the Southwest Regional Cancer Center consists of 15 medical oncologists/hematologists and 1 gynecological oncologist providing services for Austin and the seven counties surrounding Austin. |
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The mission of Any Baby Can is to strengthen families so that children can be their best. Any Baby Can programs offer a continuum of services to families of young children beginning with prevention and education, and continuing through intervention and advocacy, to ensure that every child reaches their maximum potential. |
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The Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) exists to enhance the quality of life for those living with, through, and beyond cancer. Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF seeks to promote the optimal physical, psychological, social recovery and care of cancer survivors and their loved ones. |
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Hospice Austin provides specialized medical, emotional and spiritual care for persons with terminal illnesses and a life expectancy of six months or less. Most patients have cancer, although a growing number of hospice patients have end-stage heart, lung, kidney, neurological, or liver disease, stroke, AIDS, Alzheimers or other conditions. |