Where could we meet?
How large of a space would I need?
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Do you or someone in your family have renal cell carcinoma?

You can contact your city’s local hospitals to see if a support group for that type of cancer already exists. If the group does not exist, you can ask to speak with the hospital’s community relations director or volunteer director to talk about your interest in starting a support group. But there are guidelines and funding involved b/c you will have to find a room in a hospital to use and may have to pay the hospital to use it, unless you are told otherwise. And your hospitals may have cancer ward or unit that you can check out in person too, to see if there are support groups there and speak with the people or organizations who lead those support groups, to get an idea how you would create one. You would also have to advertise for volunteers to lead the support groups on specific nights, etc.,.

Your best bet is to find an existing cancer support group and either do an informational interview with the person in charge, or do research online to start with.

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