Gifts of Time, Talent Key to Team Effort Against Cancer

Cancer and the devastation it causes is too daunting a health challenge to be conquered without a true team effort. Volunteering is one important way you can be a part of that team. Your gifts of time, talent or financial support can make a huge difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families, today and in the future. Among ways to help:

Volunteering with patients undergoing treatment
There are many volunteer opportunities at Vanderbilt Medical Center, many of them at the Cancer Center. To volunteer with patients undergoing treatment, you must be 18 years old a high school graduate, and available at least two hours a week (or four hours every other week). For more information, contact Greg Martin at (615) 343-7776 or e-mail gregory.r.martin@vanderbilt.edu.

Service opportunities with Vanderbilt-Ingram's Patient and Family Support Services
For those who are unable to volunteer in this way, other opportunities exist to get involved, including making hats, turbans or scarves for patients or providing items on the Patient and Family Support Services Wish List. For more information, contact Greg Martin at (615) 343-7776 or e-mail gregory.r.martin@vanderbilt.edu.

Current wish list items include:

• Bottled water
• Canned soft drinks
• Peanut butter crackers
• Hot chocolate
• Apple cider
• Tea
• Hard candy
• Coloring books
• Puzzles
• Board games/word games