Support Services
The Ida & Joseph Friend Cancer Resource Center supports wellness and the healing process by providing patients, families, and others with information and treatment options, emotional support, and community resources. In addition to access to information resources, the Cancer Resource Center hosts a variety of free support groups, exercise classes, and workshops.

Friend to Friend, operated by the Hospital Auxiliary of the UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center, carries wigs, scarves, prostheses, and other items.

Friend to Friend is located at 1600 Divisadero Street, 1st floor, 415.353.7776.

Art for Recovery is an award-winning program, in which individuals coping with life-threatening illness are given an opportunity to express their feelings and experiences through art workshops, visits at the bedside, and individual attention.

Sample ongoing projects include: Patient-Created Artwork, The Firefly Project, Breast Cancer Quilts, Healing Through Writing and more.

The Cancer Survivorship Program is specifically designed for patients who have completed their initial therapy for cancer. Following treatment for cancer, patients find that they need support that is different from their needs while in active treatment.

This program has been designed to enable patients to focus on their path to wellness by providing guidelines clinical care and resources for improving their general health and well being.

The Symptom Management Service (SMS) is a consultation service offered to improve the quality of life and care of patients at UCSF's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Patients can be referred to the SMS by their cancer doctor. Patients will be seen by one or more of the members of the SMS interdisciplinary team.

The SMS provides treatment and counseling for both physical and emotional symptoms caused as a result of cancer.