By Maria Clark
Don Mooney, 76 estimates he has driven at least one cancer patient to and from treatment every week since he started as a volunteer driver for the American Cancer Society's Road to Recovery Program in 2008.
The program provides transportation for cancer patients who do not have rides or are unable to drive themselves to receive their treatments. Volunteers like Mooney donate however much time they can weekly to help patients get to their appointments.
"Transportation is one of the biggest barriers to access treatment," said Mooney, who is also a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with neck cancer in 2006. While he was undergoing treatment, Mooney said he remembered one day having felt demoralized by his situation.
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