For Community/Patients/Families
We Can Help
LC4 provides cancer education, early detection, and treatment support. Services are:
- Free or very low cost
- Provided in your language
- Close to your home
- Open to you even if you do not have health insurance or legal status
"The services helped me to feel as if many people were there to help me – that I am not alone." "They helped me to feel better able to continue with my daily life."
Do you want to know more about protecting your health and that of your family and your community? We offer:
- Low or no cost breast exams and pap smears in community clinics
- Low or no cost colon and prostate exams
- Low or no cost mammograms
- Help understanding what is happening at your medical appointments and during your medical tests
- Free classes with lessons about your health and how to protect it
- Free training to become a community health promoter to help family, friends and neighbors learn about staying healthy, preventing late detection of cancer and how to find help
"What we learn we apply to ourselves first and then we teach others."
Do you or someone you know need help with cancer? We provide:
- Personal support in the hospital, at home and over the phone during cancer treatment procedures
- Education classes about cancer, cancer treatments and how to care for yourself
- Financial assistance to cover health care costs and emergency needs during treatment
- Emotional support groups with others going through cancer treatment and recovery
- Resources, support and information for you and your family while you are in treatment and after
- Transportation to cancer-related medical appointments
"They helped me with everything. I have forgotten a lot of things, with all the medications and treatment, but I will never forget what they have done for me. They are worth gold."