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Cancer Nation’s Webinar Series presents “Navigating CAR T-Cell Therapy: Your Journey to Recovery,” a conversation about the journey of CAR T-cell therapy and how the treatment is providing new options for care. CAR (short for chimeric antigen receptor) T-cell therapy uses an engineered version of a patient’s own white blood cells to target and attack cancer […]
Millions Could Lose Health Coverage if Congress Fails to Act 22 million Americans rely on Affordable Care Act (ACA) premium tax credits to afford health insurance. If Congress lets them expire at the end of 2025, premiums will skyrocket by 75% and over 4 million people will lose coverage entirely. These tax credits are a […]
Effective communication between patients and oncologists is essential to ensure understanding, participation, and optimal outcomes. This webinar discusses the role of communication in clinical trial participation. Viewers will gain insight into how communication can influence trial participation, improve patient understanding, and address concerns such as eligibility, side effects, and informed consent.
Cancer survivors often find themselves confronted with trying to navigate through the maze of confusing and contradictory nutritional approaches in cancer care. Cancer diets may concentrate on specific cancer-fighting nutrients, inflammation reduction, overall quality of life, and adequate nourishment to deal with debilitating and lingering treatment side effects. However, dealing with a cancer survivor’s nutritional […]
For nearly 40 years, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) has been the leading voice for quality cancer care. When we began in 1986, “cancer survivorship” was a radical concept. Survivors were often treated as afterthoughts, if they were acknowledged at all. Today, innovations in cancer treatments have dramatically increased the number of people […]
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) presents “Understanding Medicaid: What Advocates Need to Know.” Designed for cancer survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals, this session sheds light on Medicaid’s critical role in providing health coverage to 74 million Americans, including cancer survivors and their families. During this educational webinar, we explore the essentials of […]
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is proud to announce the recipients of the 2025 Ellen L. Stovall Award for Innovation in Patient-Centered Cancer Care: Susan Leigh, BSN, RN-Retired – Health Care Professional Award Desirée A.H. Walker – Patient Advocate Award The Ellen L. Stovall Award, named in honor of longtime NCCS CEO and […]
The House of Representatives this week will consider a budget resolution instructing the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reduce spending by $880 billion, with most cuts anticipated to target Medicaid. These reductions would have a devastating impact on the nearly 80 million Americans who depend on Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) […]
NCCS was one of twenty-eight organizations to sign patient community letters to Humana and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) expressing concern about Humana’s coverage policy for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The new policy is significantly more restrictive than the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines for treatment of NSCLC. […]
Recently, NCCS endorsed the Health Care Affordability Act — bicameral legislation making permanent the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits (PTCs) for Marketplace coverage as extended through the Inflation Reduction Act. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), if the PTCs are allowed to expire at the end of this year, health care […]
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Northeast Regional Cancer Institute
“Perhaps one of the most impactful collaborations in Dr. Brereton’s extraordinary career remains his early work and long friendship with Ellen Stovall. Through him, and in turn through the thousands of lives he has touched, Ellen’s work continues, and her mission lives on.”
—Karen M. Saunders
President, Northeast Regional Cancer Institute