Bag It Bag — Resources for Cancer Patients

Bag It Cancer–through our Bag It Bag and website–gives you access to support and reliable resources about cancer diagnosis, stages, treatment, clinical trials, recovery and more. Patients, caregivers and healthcare providers look to us for the latest cancer research and information.

Explore the Bag It Bag–in English and Spanish–below. And a wide range of tools, links and more in our Cancer Resource Center.

Spanish Version

Bag It Bag (ESPAÑOL)

What’s in the Bag

Current, Comprehensive, and Customizable
Our goal is to help empower patients, through information, to help them navigate a cancer diagnosis. From initial diagnosis, throughout treatment, and in to all phases of survivorship, Bag It guides patients on how to talk to their healthcare providers, ask questions, and serve as the most important advocate on their care team.

My Companion Guidebook

This customizable guidebook provides a comprehensive selection of resources to help patients and their care team keep information organized and easily accessible. These resources include:

Dividers to help you keep your information organized
Logs and calendars to keep track of appointments, side-effects, and symptoms
Places to store lab results, reports, referrals, diagnostic testing information, treatment summaries, follow-up care plans, and other information from your medical team
Notepaper where you can write questions and comments before and during your doctor visits, for future reference
A selection of patient resources to help patients, families, and caregivers on a variety of topics, such as finances, workplace matters, and emotions
A glossary of terms and a survivorship checklist

Make it your own! Whether you’re a techie or a pen and paper lover, the guidebook content is designed so patients can personalize the content. Organize and store records, write down questions, log appointments or symptoms on a calendar, log medications and symptoms, and more. You can also download and print patient forms so you can expand and customize the guidebook using exactly the resources you want and use the most. Learn quickly about new cancer resources, research and events by joining our mailing list.

Leading Cancer Resource Publications

Paths to Survivorship, published by Bag It, combines the most relevant and requested content from the most respected cancer authorities and provides them in a single, easy-to-navigate publication. The topics in this go-to guide are relevant from the point of initial diagnosis through all phases of survivorship. The content is compiled from the American Institute for Cancer Research, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the National Cancer Institute, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, and Cancer Care, Inc.
Taking Time, published by the National Cancer Institute, discusses the many emotions that come with having cancer, how it can affect relationships, and how to communicate with others in your life.
CancerResource: Living Well with Cancer and Beyond from the American Institute for Cancer Research, provides information on nutrition and cancer. It offers recommendations for healthy eating and physical activity during and after cancer, and suggestions for managing common eating difficulties caused by treatment side effects.
Caring for the Caregiver, from the National Cancer Institute, provides ways friends, family members, and caretakers can take care of themselves while caring for someone with cancer.

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Cancer-Specific Bag It Bags

Bag It Cancer has partnered with leading cancer organizations to provide Cancer-Specific Bag It Bags. Each Bag gives you a deeper dive into a specific type of cancer and covers topics such as understanding your diagnosis, testing options, definitions of terms, treatment options, support groups and more.

Here are the current types of Cancer-Specific Bags we provide, along with the respected cancer organizations contributing the content.

Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) | CLL Society
Graft Versus Host Disease (GVHD) | National Bone Marrow Transplant Link
Lung Cancer | GO2 for Lung Cancer
Metastatic Breast Cancer* | Living Beyond Breast Cancer
Prostate Cancer | Zero Prostate Cancer
Stomach Cancer | Hope for Stomach Cancer
Uterine Cancer | SHARE Cancer Support

* Available in English or Spanish Bicultural

We have also partnered with SHARE Cancer Support (breast, ovarian & uterine cancer) to provide bags that include SHARE program content.

If you would like to order one of these specialty Bag It bags or use a Promo Code, please use button below.

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Making the Most of Your Bag It Bag Video

NOTE: As we make regular updates to the Bag some content in this video may look different than the content in the Bag you have.

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Patient Forms

View forms in Spanish from the Spanish Bicultural Bag.

The Bag It Bag content was updated June 2024. You may notice some differences in the bag you received. The information in your bag is still valid and not outdated but feel free to download the updated booklets and forms below.

These forms are included in My Companion Guidebook, along with tabbed sections with helpful tips.

The forms below are in PDF format. Using Acrobat Reader, you can download the individual forms
you need. If you want to complete by hand, download and print each document.

You can also download them as fillable forms to complete them right on your computer by simply
typing information into the displayed fields. You can then print your completed forms and also save
them to your computer to edit and update as needed.

The forms require Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 or higher for viewing.
Download Acrobat Reader DC desktop version. The software is free.

You can also download the free Android or iOS version of the mobile app from Google Play.

Section 1: My Personal Details