We believe that everyone deserves the best in mainstream and complementary cancer treatment and that no one should go through cancer alone.
Smith Center provides the resources, community, and support for cancer patients to be active participants in their own care.
Cancer Help Program Retreats
Week-long retreats help participants engage in richer, fuller lives by providing empowering tools and knowledge in a caring community of others facing a cancer diagnosis. Activities reduce the fear and stress associated with cancer and explore healthier ways of living and choices among treatment options.
Integrative Patient Navigation
Patient navigation services offer individual one-in-one support and free, confidential, individual counseling, education, and on-going support from diagnosis through survivorship. Navigators help patients better understand their illness and access medical treatment, provide instruction on integrative therapies, and offer emotional support to patients and their families.
Programs & Workshops
Visit our U Street center for programs on health-supportive nutrition, creative expression, personal reflection, stress reduction, group support, and other healthy choices to improve ther cancer experience and enhance emotional, spiritual, and physical wellbeing.
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06 Mar
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10 Mar
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24 Mar
Nourishing Food for People with Cancer
With Laura Pole and Ruth Fehr
A nutrition and cooking workshop for cancer patients, their family members, and friends who support them. Learn More and Register
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19 Apr
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23 Jul
July Residential Cancer Retreat
Weeklong retreats help participants engage in richer, fuller lives by providing empowering tools and knowledge in a community of others facing a cancer diagnosis. Learn More and Register
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08 Oct
October Residential Cancer Retreat
Weeklong retreats help participants engage in richer, fuller lives by providing empowering tools and knowledge in a community of others facing a cancer diagnosis. Learn More and Register
A Word from Michael Lerner…
In cancer, there is no single right choice for all of us, but there are surely right choices for each of us. There are no certain courses of action, but there are certainly educated and wiser choices, as opposed to uneducated and more foolish ones. The skill is in the movement from ignorance toward knowledge and from knowledge toward wisdom. In wisdom, we choose what we are least likely to regret. Accepting the pain and sorrow inherent in the fate we have been given, we can seek also the beauty and the joy.
—Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner
Smith Center Co-Founder and the author of Choices In Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer. He was awarded the MacArthur Prize Fellowship in 1984 for his work in the health field and was a special consultant for the Congressional Report on Unconventional Cancer Treatments.
