About the "Circle of Wellness" Annual Event

The next event is tentatively scheduled for the April 2009. Please check back for more information later this year.

People Connected By Cancer is committed to providing information regarding statewide support and services available throughout the cancer journey for survivors, caregivers, families, and concerned friends of the survivors. A major focus will be to address survivors' needs as they complete medical treatment and face a world completely changed by their cancer diagnosis. As one survivor asked,

“What do you do when the treatments are over; when the doctors are through, what then?”

The purpose of this event is to provide answers to that question and more by making available experts in this field, local and national organizations, and cancer survivors who can provide the necessary information to answer that question, “What then?”

Currently, there are approximately 116,000 cancer survivors in Oklahoma and it is estimated that an additional 65,000 Oklahomans will join the survivor ranks over the next 5 years. These numbers do not include the countless number of caregivers, families, and friends who have their lives significantly altered by this disease. In most cases this group of Oklahomans is completely unaware of the support and services available to them simply because this information is not readily available.

The "Circle of Wellness" event provides survivors and their caregivers and families the opportunity to participate in one-on-one or small group interactions to ask their questions, pick-up printed service and support-related information, learn where to go or call to get help, and how to join us in providing support for others. Participants, partners, and sponsors associated with institutions and organizations from the entire state of Oklahoma, all brought together in one place, at one time to serve and inform cancer survivors in Oklahoma.