Cancer Connect

Support employees through cancer, at every stage

Cancer affects far more than physical health. Employees facing cancer, caring for someone with cancer, or living in survivorship often experience anxiety, depression, stress, and isolation that disrupt work, relationships, and recovery. Color’s Cancer Connect provides structured, peer-led support that improves emotional well-being, builds resilience, and helps people stay engaged at work and in life.

The result is a healthier workforce, stronger retention, and reduced downstream disruption.

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Unmet emotional and practical needs create hidden workforce risk

Cancer introduces a level of emotional strain that most benefit strategies fail to address. While medical care focuses on treatment, the mental, social, and day-to-day impact of cancer often goes unsupported.

More than half of people affected by cancer report psychological distress. Many describe unmet needs related to anxiety, fear, and emotional well-being. Most say they want peer support from others who truly understand what they are experiencing. When these needs go unmet, engagement drops, recovery slows, and disruption increases across teams.

High emotional distress
High emotional distress

Cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers frequently experience anxiety, depression, and chronic stress that interfere with focus, productivity, and recovery.

Limited access to meaningful support
Limited access to meaningful support

Traditional options like one-to-one therapy or informal support groups are often difficult to access, inconsistent, or poorly matched to cancer-specific needs.

Isolation and disengagement
Isolation and disengagement

Without connection to others who share similar experiences, many employees withdraw at the very moment they need support most.

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As cancer experts, we know emotional health requires more than information

Supporting people through cancer takes more than offering a hotline or a list of benefits. It requires connection, shared experience, and practical tools people can use in real moments.

Cancer Connect delivers all three.

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Access

Access ensures support is easy to reach, without waitlists, referrals, or scheduling barriers.

  • Weekly virtual meetings available year-round

  • Join any session, in any order

  • Support for patients, survivors, and caregivers

  • Available wherever employees live or work

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Speed

Speed means employees do not have to wait until distress escalates to get help.

  • Immediate access to peer-led support

  • Skills and strategies employees can use right away

  • Ongoing sessions that meet people when challenges arise

  • Support available throughout treatment, survivorship, and caregiving

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Direct Clinical Care

Cancer Connect replaces isolation and uncertainty with connection, practical tools, and shared understanding.

  • Peer leaders who are cancer survivors or caregivers

  • Structured, skills-based meetings grounded in research

  • Content designed specifically for cancer-related challenges

  • Support that complements clinical care, not replaces it

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Proven impact on emotional health and engagement

38%

reduction in depression

36%

reduction in anxiety

9%

reduction in stress

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A structured, evidence-based approach to peer support

Cancer Connect blends peer support and empathetic leaders with structured, evidence-based meetings that employees can join in any order, at any time. It is designed to improve quality of life and physical health by giving people practical tools they can use in real moments, across treatment, survivorship, and caregiving.

Build a mental health toolkit that can be used everyday

  • Peer-led sessions guided by cancer survivors and caregivers
  • Skills-based, research-backed strategies that go beyond open discussion
  • Weekly virtual meetings that can be joined any time, in any order
  • Support tailored to cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers
Build a mental health toolkit that can be used everyday

Strengthen coping skills through structured weekly topics

  • Eight rotating topics that cover thoughts, emotions, behaviors, relationships, and physical health
  • Guidance that helps people manage fear, uncertainty, and stress
  • Practical strategies for navigating pain, worry, and rumination
  • Skills that support connection, resilience, and self-compassion
Strengthen coping skills through structured weekly topics

Reduce isolation and help people stay engaged through community

  • Peer connection with people who truly understand the experience
  • A format that is more structured than support groups and more accessible than one-to-one therapy
  • Ongoing support available throughout the journey, including after treatment ends
  • A space that normalizes the challenges and reduces stigma
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Wraparound care that complements clinical care

Cancer Connect is integrated into the Color Virtual Cancer Clinic, extending support beyond medical appointments and into daily life.

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Emotional and mental health
Emotional and mental health
  • Peer-led connection grounded in shared experience
  • Skills to manage anxiety, fear, and uncertainty
  • Ongoing support through survivorship and caregiving
Social and practical resilience
Social and practical resilience
  • Connection to others facing similar challenges
  • Support that reduces isolation and stigma
  • Tools that help people stay engaged at work and at home
Flexible and inclusive access
Flexible and inclusive access
  • No diagnosis, referral, or treatment stage required
  • Support available across roles, locations, and schedules

Frequently asked questions

Common question asked and answered here?

On March 16th, 2020, the first stay-at-home orders were issued in the San Francisco Bay Area. Exactly two weeks later, Color had built a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing lab and digital platform. One week after that, Color and the City and County of San Francisco launched one of the first high-capacity, public COVID testing sites.

In the months and years to come, Color supported employers, schools, and Federal, state, and local health departments across the country—Thermo Fisher Scientific, the CDC, the State of California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chicago Public Schools, to name a few—to provide critical access where people worked, played, learned, and worshiped. When antiviral treatment became available, Color ran three-quarters of the country’s state-level telehealth programs, with prescription delivery within 24 to 48 hours of symptom onset. Our population health work has since expanded to support other infectious disease areas. Color currently runs the State of California’s HIV PrEP telehealth access program.

Common question asked and answered here?

On March 16th, 2020, the first stay-at-home orders were issued in the San Francisco Bay Area. Exactly two weeks later, Color had built a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing lab and digital platform. One week after that, Color and the City and County of San Francisco launched one of the first high-capacity, public COVID testing sites.

In the months and years to come, Color supported employers, schools, and Federal, state, and local health departments across the country—Thermo Fisher Scientific, the CDC, the State of California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chicago Public Schools, to name a few—to provide critical access where people worked, played, learned, and worshiped. When antiviral treatment became available, Color ran three-quarters of the country’s state-level telehealth programs, with prescription delivery within 24 to 48 hours of symptom onset. Our population health work has since expanded to support other infectious disease areas. Color currently runs the State of California’s HIV PrEP telehealth access program.

Common question asked and answered here?

On March 16th, 2020, the first stay-at-home orders were issued in the San Francisco Bay Area. Exactly two weeks later, Color had built a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing lab and digital platform. One week after that, Color and the City and County of San Francisco launched one of the first high-capacity, public COVID testing sites.

In the months and years to come, Color supported employers, schools, and Federal, state, and local health departments across the country—Thermo Fisher Scientific, the CDC, the State of California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chicago Public Schools, to name a few—to provide critical access where people worked, played, learned, and worshiped. When antiviral treatment became available, Color ran three-quarters of the country’s state-level telehealth programs, with prescription delivery within 24 to 48 hours of symptom onset. Our population health work has since expanded to support other infectious disease areas. Color currently runs the State of California’s HIV PrEP telehealth access program.

Common question asked and answered here?

On March 16th, 2020, the first stay-at-home orders were issued in the San Francisco Bay Area. Exactly two weeks later, Color had built a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing lab and digital platform. One week after that, Color and the City and County of San Francisco launched one of the first high-capacity, public COVID testing sites.

In the months and years to come, Color supported employers, schools, and Federal, state, and local health departments across the country—Thermo Fisher Scientific, the CDC, the State of California and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Chicago Public Schools, to name a few—to provide critical access where people worked, played, learned, and worshiped. When antiviral treatment became available, Color ran three-quarters of the country’s state-level telehealth programs, with prescription delivery within 24 to 48 hours of symptom onset. Our population health work has since expanded to support other infectious disease areas. Color currently runs the State of California’s HIV PrEP telehealth access program.