It is universally acknowledged that empathetic peer support is invaluable to our emotional well-being. Alexander is a 16-year-old survivor of stage IV cancer. Alexander and thousands of others across the country have spent weeks in hospital beds, away from friends, getting toxic chemicals pumped through their body in order to survive. Through it all, they have nobody to talk to. Nobody to understand the excruciating pain of chemotherapy, trying to shower with a plastic line sticking out of your arm, or needing a hat to cover your bare head. Nobody like them. Finding someone to talk with who ‘gets it’ is imperative to our sense of happiness and belonging. But for the tens of thousands of teen cancer survivors, there simply isn’t an easy way of doing so.  On average, at least one American teen is diagnosed with cancer every hour. As we write this application, somewhere, in some hospital, someone not unlike us is being told to their face they are very, very sick. Someone who’s scared and uncertain of what may come. Someone who needs a person who’s been there.

This APP will serve as a community specifically for patients and their families battling cancer.  It will serve as a place for support, information, and connection.  The APP will include messaging and chat features, search features to find others with similar interested and situations, discussion forums , information, and more.