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Annotation: The Corporate Angel Network (CAN) is a nationwide service offered to cancer patients traveling to and from recognized cancer hospitals. The network arranges free plane transportation by using the empty seats on corporate aircraft. Patients must be able to walk and travel with no life support systems. Financial need is not a requirement and both parents may accompany a child patient. Anyone can contact the organization for information, but the network must talk directly with patients before booking flights. The network publishes a newsletter.

Keywords: Cancer, Transportation of patients

Annotation: Lifeline Pilots is an volunteer organization of private pilots. Pilots, at their own expense, facilitate free air transportation for patients in financial need who require treatment at locations that are far away from their homes. Second and third priority missions include transporting children with disabilities to special camps, parents to visit children undergoing long-term hospitalization in another city, transporting child with disabilities to an adoptive parent, flying persons to identify remains of family members, returning terminally ill patients home, carrying elderly persons to nursing homes, or assisting in disaster relief operations. Lifeline Pilots is not an air ambulance. The organization also publishes a newsletter and provides speakers for engagements.

Keywords: Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Transportation of patients