Our Founding Story

If you are reading this, there is a chance you or someone you know and love is facing cancer. Maybe you are here to learn about Cancer Rehab Group and the work we are doing. Maybe, like us, you have dedicated your career to working in oncology. Cancer is personal, and we consider walking alongside cancer patients a privilege — so it's important to us that you know our story and our why. Cancer Rehab Group exists because, more than a career, this is our life's work.

Our Journey: A Shared Belief, a Decade in the Making

Long before there was Cancer Rehab Group, there was a shared belief — formed over three different career paths working in oncology rehabilitation. Cancer Rehab Group's founding team, Kaitlin, Sarah, and Colleen, spent over a decade working with cancer patients, each seeing firsthand the gap in cancer care that Cancer Rehab Group could fill.

Though our career paths were different, cancer is a journey — and working in oncology, walking alongside patients on their worst days and their best days, has given us a shared conviction that inspired Cancer Rehab Group: that every person facing cancer deserves access to high-quality cancer care, and that includes expert rehabilitation.

Combined, we have over 35+ years of subspecialty clinical expertise leading programs at a network of MD Anderson Cancer Centers. Individually:

• Kaitlin holds a decade of clinical expertise and training in head and neck cancer rehabilitation, including swallowing rehabilitation and restoring functional communication.
• Colleen specializes in tracheoesophageal prosthesis management, having worked with patients who have lost their larynx to cancer.
• Sarah has supported all types of cancer patients and survivors through oncology-specific physical therapy, including lymphedema management and pelvic health.

Our experiences have shaped a standard of care that oncology rehab should look like — a team that understands the complexities of cancer and its treatments, builds trust with patients early, identifies risk proactively, and intervenes before function is lost. A team that's there from day one.

Cancer Rehabilitation is the difference between a life diminished and a life restored.

We know what's possible when rehabilitation is treated as an essential part of cancer care — not an afterthought. We are endlessly inspired by our patients' determination, their fight, and their spirit in the face of one of life's most devastating diagnoses. We have watched integrated care teams help patients recover function, independence, and quality of life faster and more fully than anyone expected.

We have also seen the gap: patients who lived even a short distance from a major cancer center often had nowhere to turn for the specialized rehabilitation support they needed.

Closing the Gap

Cancer Rehab Group was founded to close that gap. We are Indiana and Nevada's only oncology-dedicated multidisciplinary organization delivering Physical Therapy, Head and Neck, Speech-Language Pathology, Lymphedema Management, Pelvic Health, Cognitive Rehabilitation, and Certified Oncology Exercise Programs. We bring 8 subspecialties under one clinic.

Our vision is that every person, everywhere, would have access to high-quality cancer care. Through both virtual and in-person care, we are removing the barrier of access for every person facing cancer, regardless of location.