CancerBuddy is a free peer support smartphone app for iOS mobile devices that helps patients, survivors, and caregivers find resources, emotional support, medical information, and a new community of peers going through similar experiences within their cancer hospital, city, or state.

CancerBuddy provides a user-friendly digital experience to help people affected by cancer across the US find buddies to share similar experiences, resources, educational information, emotional support, and a supportive community. It’s a great way for people to connect by diagnosis, treatment, side effects, age, interests, hospital and geographical location. CancerBuddy also offers hospital systems, cancer advocacy groups and cancer influencers a trusted platform to engage with their community and share resources. This initiative will make the experience of dealing with cancer a little less lonely for patients, caregivers, and survivors.

Yes, CancerBuddy is a free app.

CancerBuddy is for anyone impacted by cancer, whether they are a patient, survivor, or caregiver to someone with cancer. CancerBuddy provides a community of support and referral to resources from people who understand what you are going through.

CancerBuddy is a particularly helpful tool for AYA who make up a minority of the cancer population, making it more difficult to find and connect without the help of technology.>

• CancerBuddy uses self-identify and user-report to notify app administrators of any inappropriate behavior.
• Flagged users are reviewed by moderators and dealt with on a case by case basis.
• Terms of use clearly state that individuals should not consider information exchanged between patients to be taken as medical advice.
• Information from the group hosts and subject matter experts have all been vetted for accuracy.
• CancerBuddy is NOT a mentorship program, we are a peer to peer community that provides access to professional resources and information.

• User experience
• Ability to filter individuals
• Direct links to resources
• In-app access to professional guidance in a variety of areas such as nutrition, exercise, mental health
• Groups and group leaders must be approved so are all verified individuals and/or subject matter experts

You have complete control over how much or how little information you share with the app and other users. At any time, you are able to update the information listed in your profile.

CancerBuddy does not save or share any private information provided by individual users.

CancerBuddy is available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices. Android will be available in the Google Play Store in September 2023

Currently, CancerBuddy is only available in the United States.

Currently, CancerBuddy only exists in English.