SAN ANGELO, Texas (Concho Valley Homepage) — When San Angelo local and mother Karenrose Honea's son was being treated for blood cancer, she often felt isolated and lost. Now, she has a chance to offer the support she wished she had to other parents through a new program launched by Cancer Hope Network.

Cancer Hope Network, a national nonprofit that provides one-on-one peer mentorship support to adult cancer patients and their caregivers, launched its Hopeful Hearts: Parents Supporting Parents program on June 3. According to the organization, the peer mentorship program "connects parents facing pediatric and adolescent cancer with other parents whose children are cancer survivors to offer emotional support and optimism."

"Through the program, we train parents whose children are at least o

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