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FORCE: Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered
FORCE gives free information, a helpline and peer navigators to anyone facing an inherited cancer risk such as a BRCA or Lynch syndrome gene change.
Overview
FORCE is the largest US organisation for people affected by hereditary cancer. Its peer navigation programme matches people with a trained volunteer who has faced the same gene change and decisions; its helpline and expert-reviewed pages explain testing, surveillance, risk-reducing surgery and trials in plain language; and it runs support groups and an annual conference. Services are free and open to anyone, and its content is used internationally.
Holds
Free helpline, peer navigation, expert-reviewed information and support groups for people with hereditary cancer risk (BRCA, Lynch syndrome and other inherited syndromes), including help understanding test results and options.
Maintainer
FORCE
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