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Most men who survive cancer attend a support group.
Once.
"Most support programs, unwittingly, are geared toward females," says Dick Sisk. "You go, drink tea, knit an afghan and spill your guts to strangers. Men aren't standing in line for that."
Sisk is a 30-year Southern Baptist minister, who 13 years ago moved to Memphis from Texas to become pastor of Broadmoor Baptist Church.
Radio evangelist Steven Olford was aware of Sisk's interest in men's ministries and was also aware that his own doctors at Memphis Cancer Center wanted to find a way to provide emotional support for men. So Olford met Sisk and introduced him to his oncologist.
For a year, Sisk has worked diligently at figuring out how a men's cancer support group should be different and pulling together a core group of about a dozen guys. What...