Since my mom died from this cancer 8yrs ago the 19th, and i volunteered my time for approx 3yrs I'll tell you how.
You cart your butt down to the local cancer center (they have one here in Greensboro and several in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill- since Duke is a fairly major player when it comes to medical research) and bring an enormous handful of new magazines on a weekly basis to where they have to sit for hours during chemo. They and the family members and friends who come with them really appreciate it. You walk around and ask them if there's anything you can do for them- water, food, assistance to the bathroom. Etc.
You go to the oncology ward and do the same thing for the "family room". You bring the nurses on the ward who work the graveyard shift 2 dozen Krispy Kreme's- yeah they're not healthy but I promise you they'll be gone faster than you can say leiomyosarcoma. You make a food run for the nurses. You talk to random patients walking around or in the family room bc they have no one with them or no visitors. Or rather you listen to them talk. You do all the same things, but for the morning crew or the afternoon crew. You bring clean toys, a wide range of books, upbeat paintings and/or decorations to the family room and/or chemo " station"/section. You smile as much as you can even when the sweet old lady in the next room dies bc those nurses really need it. You bring bouquets (if they're allowed to have them and nurses can tell you which ones can) of flowers to random patients, especially ones who don't seem to have any visitors. You visit those patients who don't seem to have many visitors. You make a thank you card from a big poster board for the nurses and have as many patients and family members sign it as you possibly can.
I can literally go on for several more paragraphs if anyone is truly interested. I have no "dog fight" so to speak- I'm just responding to this one post bc you never know until you ask and/or try. Never just assume.[/QUOT