Say YES to Hope
Say YES to Hope • Retreat From Cancer

Cancer takes enough days.
This one belongs to you.

A place for people living with advanced or metastatic cancer—and the people who love them—to laugh, connect, learn, ask questions, and simply live.

A joyful Retreat From Cancer momentRetreat participants spending time togetherFriends laughing together at Retreat From CancerSurvivors celebrating togetherRetreat participants laughing and connecting
See what we mean

For a little while, cancer doesn't get to be the center of attention.

There are diagnoses in this film. There are also cowboy hats, singing, food, silliness, hugs, questions, tears and the kind of laughter that makes you forget the clock. This is not about pretending cancer isn't hard. It is about making room for everything cancer is not.

The heart of the retreat

Live. Belong. Discover.

Retreat From Cancer brings joy, community and serious cancer expertise into the same space—without turning the weekend into another appointment.

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LIVE

Eat. Laugh. Sing. Rest. Be silly. Make a memory. There is no right way to retreat from cancer. You are still living, and sometimes we all need to remember that.

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BELONG

Meet people who understand without needing an explanation. Patients, caregivers and families arrive with different stories and leave knowing they are not walking alone.

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DISCOVER

Hear from multidisciplinary cancer experts, ask the questions that never fit into a rushed visit, and discover treatments, testing, trials and possibilities you may not have known existed.

Expertise without the exam room

The experts speak. Then they stay.

Our multidisciplinary team doesn't simply give a presentation and disappear. They answer questions, share meals, listen to stories and hang out with the people they came to serve.

That means time to hear different perspectives, ask the question that didn't fit into an appointment, and learn about possibilities across the cancer journey.

Medical OncologyRadiation OncologySurgical OncologyInterventional OncologyBiomarkers & Molecular TestingGeneticsClinical TrialsSupportive CarePatient Navigation
Sometimes the most important question isn't “What treatment comes next?” It's “What haven't we considered?”
Dr. Jim Caridi presenting at Retreat From Cancer dressed as Rocky
Serious medicine. Real humanity.
Dr. Jim Caridi—a gifted interventional radiologist and a cancer patient himself—once gave his Retreat From Cancer presentation dressed as Rocky. He understood both sides of the conversation.
Education without the conference

This is cancer support with the walls taken down.

You can talk about cancer when you need to. You can forget about it when you can. No one expects you to perform bravery, positivity or patienthood.

Not another appointment.No exam room. No ten-minute clock.
Not forced positivity.There is room for hard truths, tears, questions, laughter and hope.
Not experts talking at patients.It is conversation, access and time together.
Not just a weekend.The friendships and community can continue long after everyone goes home.
The reunion tells the rest of the story

Come for the retreat. Find your people.

The hugs say what a brochure can't. Retreat From Cancer creates relationships that can outlast the weekend—and sometimes become part of the journey itself.

You are more than your diagnosis

Come breathe. Come laugh. Come live.

Retreat From Cancer is designed for people living with advanced or metastatic cancer and the family members and caregivers walking beside them.

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