Gilda’s Club, named for comedienne Gilda Radner of Saturday Night Live fame, was created because of her wish that no one face cancer alone. Gilda Radner was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1986. After her death in 1989, co-founders Joanna Bull and Gene Wilder began the process to launch the first Gilda's Club in New York City.
In 1999, four women living in the same desert community in...