Sharsheret is here for you in the waiting room…
- Without a cancer diagnosis, waiting for results
- With anxiety about what lies ahead after a cancer diagnosis
- With scanxiety after cancer treatment
- With your loved ones as they wait for results
Sharsheret social workers are poised and ready to help you and your loved ones navigate what many consider the worst part of any challenge: the unknown. We have support, resources, and years of experience to help you during this moment when your future feels out of your control. If you’re waiting for results, call us so we can provide support and wait with you.

- Navigating Anxiety: The Waiting Room Part 1, blog
- A Step-By-Step Guide to Navigating a Biopsy: The Waiting Room Part 2, blog
- Coping Strategies, resource
- Meditation and Grounding Exercises, resource
- Meditation, Spirituality and Psalms/Tehillim, collection of resources
- Questions to Ask When Choosing Your Treatment Team, resource
- Beyond Cancer: Navigating Medical Anxiety, webinar
- Managing Anxiety and Depression During and After Cancer, webinar
- Reflections on Cancer Survivorship, blog
- Facing Scanxiety, webinar
- Fear of Recurrence, resource

- Breast Cancer Signs & Symptoms, resource
- Ovarian Cancer Signs & Symptoms, resource
- Top Breast Cancer Screening Tools, resource
- Breast Cancer Screening Tips, resource
- How to Prepare: Your 1st Mammogram, resource
- Ever Seen a Mammogram?, video
- Jewish women should get mammograms at 40, experts say. Here’s why. JTA article
- Are you at High Risk for Breast Cancer?, resource
- “What Should I do If,” navigating cancer risk resource
- BRCA and Other High Risk Genes FAQ, resource
- Preventative Care Plan Journey, blog

- How Biomarker Testing Changed my Cancer Treatment Plan, blog
- About Biomarkers, resource
- What are biomarkers? Video
- Understanding Pathology Reports and Treatment Planning, resource
- Minimal Residual Disease Testing in Breast Cancer: A Tool for Personalized Monitoring and Detecting Recurrence, Susan G. Komen article
The Waiting Room is made possible with support from an Anonymous Donor
Thank you to our Waiting Room sponsors:
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