Let’s build intimacy-informed cancer care into the system, not around its edges.
CancerEVOLVE helps organizations make intimacy-informed care part of everyday cancer care.
Our work currently focuses on intimacy-informed cancer care while developing strategies, frameworks, and solutions that can strengthen supportive care across healthcare and other fields.
The missing piece is not compassion.
It’s implementation.
Many organizations already have compassionate clinicians, useful resources, and specialist support; yet patients may have few opportunities to bring up intimacy concerns, staff may be unsure how to respond, and support can be difficult to find or access consistently.
Patients need support.
Staff want to help.
What needs to happen next?
CancerEVOLVE provides the tools, training, and systems to make intimacy-informed care a consistent part of cancer care.
What exactly is intimacy-informed care?
Intimacy-informed cancer care recognizes how cancer can affect the body, sexuality, identity, relationships, and connection with oneself and others. It encompasses sexual health, desire and pleasure, body image, communication, changing roles, dating, touch, and emotional and physical intimacy.
It also means establishing consistent ways to recognize, discuss, and support these needs, with access to appropriate care from diagnosis onward.
Intimacy, Closeness & Connection
Sexual Health & Wellness Concerns
Relationships & Changing Roles During Illness
Communication & Psycho-Social Support
Desire & pleasure During & After Cancer
Dating & Relating During & After Cancer
Hormonal & functional changes
Body Image & Body Experience
Join an upcoming Intimacy-Informed Care Orientation (3rd Thursday of each month)
What does intimacy-informed cancer care look like in practice?
Join our upcoming orientation for an introduction and interactive discussion exploring intimacy-informed cancer care, the CancerEVOLVE Framework, and practical ways your organization can begin implementing more consistent support for your patients.
The recording will be shared for those who can’t attend live.
The CancerEVOLVE Intimacy-Informed Care Framework
CancerEVOLVE’s framework examines five levels of care across six organizational domains to understand where intimacy-informed care can be supported, delivered, and integrated consistently into everyday practice in your organization.
We work closely, nationally and globally, with:
- Hospitals and cancer centers
- Survivorship and rehabilitation programs
- Community cancer organizations and non-profits
- Professional associations and networks
- Healthcare education and training institutions
- Cancer advocacy and patient support organizations
Who our work supports
Discover your organization’s strengths, gaps, and opportunities for integrating intimacy-informed care into everyday cancer care.
Take our no-cost Organizational Readiness Snapshot.
How We Work With Organizations
We can help you identify where your organization is today and build from there.
Understand current readiness and realities
Identify Hidden Strengths & Priority gaps
Select an appropriate starting point
Implement targeted services & solutions
Build intelligently toward sustainable integration
Explore how CancerEVOLVE can support your organization
Understand readiness and where your organization stands today
Take our complimentary readiness snapshot.
See where you are.
Build your team’s confidence and skills + expand resources
Explore our core offerings, focused solutions, trainings, and more.
Develop an organization-wide approach
Let’s talk about what you’re working toward and where CancerEVOLVE could help.
Many thanks, Claire! As we support patients after their cancer treatments and, for many, guide and empower them to get back to their 'new normal,' the need to open the conversation about sex and intimacy is vital, even if we don't have answers!
Psychooncology professional
Evidence and credibility
At launch, you may not yet have traditional case studies with large numerical outcomes. Do not manufacture case-study language.
Use a combination of:
- Professional collaborations
- Pilot and advisory relationships
- Speaking and training engagements
- Framework development
- Selected testimonials, with permission
- Research and practice foundations
- Lived experience and professional training
- Geographic or institutional reach
Label developing projects accurately as “Collaborations,” “Current Initiatives,” “Pilot Development,” or “In Practice,” rather than implying completed client outcomes.
What would it take to make intimacy-informed care more consistent across your organization?
Let’s find out!
Take our Organizational Readiness Snapshot or begin a conversation about your institution’s priorities.