Welcome to
Life Force Cancer Foundation

Life Force Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organisation, providing emotional/psycho social support for people dealing with the experience of cancer, through a range of support programs and therapies including groupwork and meditation, counselling, special workshops and retreats. Support groups are held weekly in Sydney's metropolitan area.

In learning how to cope with and transform our feelings of fear, aloneness, hurt, anger, we have a precious gift - each other. Support groups offer an opportunity to overcome isolation through the sharing of feelings. In a safe and loving environment, healing can take place on many levels. A team of trained counsellors, group facilitators and therapists work together in helping people on the healing journey.

Professor Michael Friedlander PhD FRACP has this to say about Life Force

I have been associated with the Life Force Cancer Foundation since its inception in 1993 and have been more than impressed with the support that they have offered to patients with cancer and to their families. They have survived largely on good will of the staff and community who have donated their time as well as funds to run the programs.

There is now ample evidence to support psychosocial service provision and this is no longer an area of controversy as it was when Life Force was established. There are now psychosocial guidelines endorsed by the NHMRC and no one would argue that this is an important and essential component of cancer care.

One of the major advantages of the Life Force Cancer Foundation is that it sees patients outside the hospital system in a non-threatening environment and I see this as one of its major strengths. In my experience many people do not want to return to the hospital setting for psychological support once treatment has completed, due to the memories that are evoked by returning regularly to the same institution. Another major strength of Life Force is that the counsellors work with clinicians rather than against them and this is consistent with the holistic approach to cancer care.


Michael Friedlander
Professor of Medicine
Conjoint, University of New South Wales