Entries by NCCS Staff

Cancer Nation Responds to OMB Proposed Rule On Medical Research

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Cancer Nation submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), both independently and alongside fellow cancer advocacy organizations, raising concerns that the proposed Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance could weaken the scientific peer review process, disrupt lifesaving cancer research, and slow progress for the 19 million Americans living with a history of cancer. […]

The Right to Thrive: A Conversation on the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act

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On June 15, Cancer Nation co-hosted a virtual town hall with the Lymphoma Research Foundation and Children’s Cancer Cause to build support for H.R. 8839, the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act (CCSA). This bold, bipartisan legislation is designed to strengthen survivorship care and improve quality of life for the nearly 18 million Americans living […]

Cancer Nation Statement: Medicaid Work Requirements Will Unfairly Burden Cancer Survivors

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Cancer Nation strongly supports a health care system free of waste, fraud, and abuse. Health care resources must be directed to delivery of reasonable and necessary care at an affordable cost. Such a system is critical to ensuring that people with cancer have access to high quality, affordable care from diagnosis and across the continuum […]

Webinar – Understanding Blood-Based Testing in Cancer Care

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Cancer Nation’s Webinar Series presents a clear, practical conversation about advances in blood-based testing and how they’re shaping cancer care. These tools are helping care teams learn more about tumor changes over time and, in some cases, guide more personalized treatment decisions—all through a simple blood draw. In this educational webinar, clinical expert Dr. Suzanne […]

Cancer Nation Applauds the Introduction of the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act

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Washington, DC, May 14, 2026 – Cancer Nation applauds the introduction of the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act, bold legislation designed to help cancer survivors not just live longer, but live better. We salute Representatives Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Brian Fitpatrick, Mark DeSaulnier, and Joe Wilson for their efforts in developing and introducing this bipartisan […]

Introducing The Cancer Nation Leadership Academy

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Elevating Survivorship is now the Cancer Nation Leadership Academy. We’re changing the name — and expanding the mission. This is more than just a new name; It’s how we drive change. For years, Elevating Survivorship brought advocates together to turn lived experience into community-based action. We trained and mentored Elevate Ambassadors and supported their community […]

Outliving the Odds, Rewriting the Path: Tom Warren’s Story of Survivorship and Advocacy

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Meet Tom Warren. Six years after a rare cancer diagnosis he was never expected to survive, Tom is redefining what it means to live with and beyond cancer; navigating lasting side effects, loss of identity, and a new path forward through advocacy.

Webinar – Bispecific Antibodies in Cancer Care: What to Know, What to Expect

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Cancer Nation’s Webinar Series presents Bispecific Antibodies in Cancer Care: What to Know, What to Expect, with Tara Graff, DO, MS. Bispecific antibodies are a newer type of immunotherapy cancer treatment, currently more often used in later lines of therapy, mainly in blood cancers such as lymphomas and myelomas. This discussion will help patients and […]

Remembering Erin Cummings, A Passionate Advocate for Survivors and Founder of Hodgkin’s International

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We at Cancer Nation are heartbroken over the loss of Erin Cummings, founder of Hodgkin’s International. Erin was one of us. And she helped shape who we are. Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 15, Erin lived more than 50 years with and beyond cancer. The treatments that saved her life as a teenager also […]