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Hope Lodge gives patients and a caregiver a free place to stay near the hospital when treatment is far from home.

Road To Recovery is the American Cancer Society's free volunteer driving service for getting to treatment appointments.

Corporate Angel Network flies cancer patients to distant treatment for free, in empty seats on company jets.

Lazarex pays the travel and lodging costs that stop people joining cancer trials in the US, and helps them find a trial in the first place.

LIVESTRONG at the YMCA is a free twelve-week exercise programme for adults who have had cancer, run at YMCAs across the US.

Look Good Feel Better runs free workshops that teach people having cancer treatment how to manage skin, brow and hair changes, with a free product kit.

In England, tumour and inherited cancer gene testing is free on the NHS when the National Genomic Test Directory lists it for your cancer. Your hospital team orders it.

Anyone in England with a Jewish grandparent can order a free NHS saliva test for BRCA gene changes, which raise breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer risk.

PanCAN pays for tumour sequencing for people with pancreatic cancer in the US, so the results can point to a targeted drug or a trial.

Men with prostate cancer in the US can get a free inherited-risk gene test by joining the PROMISE registry, which also offers counselling about the result.

Ronald McDonald Houses give families of seriously ill children, including children with cancer, a free or low-cost place to stay next to the hospital.

In California, thesecondopinion gives adults with cancer a free review of their diagnosis and treatment plan by a panel of volunteer cancer specialists.

Young Lives vs Cancer gives families of children and young people with cancer a free place to stay near the hospital and a social worker on the ward.