Empowering People with Cancer

Art Connolly is a three-time cancer survivor, having been diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997, thyroid cancer in 2006, and adenocarcinoma in 2008. He had to undergo surgery for all three occurrences and went through six months of chemotherapy for the adenocarcinoma. During a visit to his oncologist, he noticed a brochure for the Cancer Support Community (then called The Wellness Community) in the waiting room and joined the organization as a volunteer.  “I believe the Cancer Support Community has helped me grow a lot,” says Art. “Being in a support group has made me a better listener.  My wife and I have made several very good friends, as I like to put it, ‘The kind of friendships that used to happen only in foxholes in wartime.'”