2025 CPAT Symposium
Explore the agenda, speaker bios, slide decks, and other resources from the event.
Cancer Policy & Advocacy Team (CPAT)
The NCCS Cancer Policy & Advocacy Team (CPAT) is a program for survivors and caregivers to learn about pressing policy issues that affect quality cancer care in order to be engaged as advocates in public policy around the needs of cancer survivors.
Led by the CPAT Steering Committee, CPAT provides cancer survivors and caregivers with tools and training that build upon their personal experiences to become effective advocates to improve cancer care.
The CPAT webinars, newsletters, online forum, and conferences offer advocates different ways to learn and to discuss current issues, programs, and policies that affect the cancer community and to take action as appropriate.
2025 CPAT Symposium
NCCS will host the 2025 CPAT Symposium on June 25 – 27 in Washington, DC. The CPAT Symposium is an event for both new and experienced advocates to develop advocacy skills, advocate for cancer policy on Capitol Hill, and learn about survivorship topics that impact the daily lives of cancer survivors and their families.
CPAT Webinars
Cancer Nation Releases Survivorship Survey 2025 Results
Cancer Nation worked with Edge Research to conduct our seventh annual nationwide survey of cancer survivors, exploring their experiences living with, through, and beyond cancer. The 2025 Cancer Nation Survivorship ...
Webinar – Navegando la terapia de células T con CAR: su camino hacia la recuperación
La serie de seminarios web de Cáncer Nation presenta “Navegando la terapia de células T con CAR: su camino hacia la recuperación”, una conversación sobre el recorrido de la terapia ...
Webinar – Navigating CAR T-Cell Therapy: Your Journey to Recovery
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 ...
Webinar: Navigating Communication on Clinical Trials in Oncology
Clinical trials are the cornerstone of advancing cancer treatment, offering patients cutting-edge therapies while contributing to critical research. However, effective communication between patients and oncologists is essential to ensure understanding, ...
Clarifying Cancer Diets: A Critical Look at Trending Diets & Practical Tools for Nutrition Planning
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, ...
Webinar – Understanding Medicaid: What Advocates Need to Know
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 ...
Webinar – Family Building and Cancer
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) recently presented the webinar “Family Building and Cancer,” for an audience of health care professionals, cancer survivors, and caregivers alike. Being diagnosed with ...
Webinar – Multi Cancer Early Detection Tools (MCED): The Promise and Challenges
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted an insightful webinar discussion exploring the groundbreaking field of multi-cancer early detection (MCED) tools. As advancements in technology and biology open new ...
NCCS Presents The State of Cancer Survivorship: 2024 Survey Results
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) conducts an annual State of Survivorship Survey, in partnership with Edge Research, to explore the cancer survivor journey. This study captures a range ...
Webinar: Making Integrative Oncology Regular & Routine: A Practical Guide to Meeting the Demands of Patients and the Needs of Health Systems
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) Presents the Survivorship Champions webinar “Making Integrative Oncology Regular & Routine: A Practical Guide to Meeting the Demands of Patients and the Needs ...
Webinar: Black Men Taking Charge of Our Health – A Fireside Chat About “Knowing Your Numbers”
April is National Minority Health Month, a time to raise awareness about the importance of improving the health of racial and ethnic minority communities and reducing health disparities. The National ...
Webinar – Compassion in Oncology: A Powerful Antidote to a Patient’s Negative Emotions
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) Presents “Compassion in Oncology: A Powerful Antidote to a Patient’s Negative Emotions,” a webinar featuring Dr. Michael Crain and Claudio Pannunzio from The ...
Webinar: Managing Function and Quality of Life of Head and Neck Cancer Survivors
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Cancer Policy and Advocacy Team (CPAT) webinar discussing quality of life for head and neck cancer survivors. The treatment of head ...
Webinar: Making the Mouth-Body Connection in Cancer Care
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) presents a webinar about oral care — an aspect of cancer treatment that is often overlooked. Oral side effects and untreated dental diseases ...
Webinar: NCCS Cancer Policy Roundtable Highlights
During our Fall Cancer Policy Roundtable in November 2023, NCCS hosted a compelling series of panels and guest speakers, discussing important issues in quality cancer survivorship care. As many of ...
Webinar – Reconnecting to Life After Cancer: Permission to Feel
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) presents “Reconnecting to Life After Cancer: Permission to Feel,” a webinar featuring Kathy Washburn, a certified holistic cancer coach and cancer survivor. In ...
NCCS Presents The State of Cancer Survivorship: 2023 Survey Results
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) conducts an annual State of Survivorship Survey, in partnership with Edge Research, to explore the cancer survivor journey. This study captures a range ...
Webinar – Survivorship at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center: Creating a Practical Workflow
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar about survivorship care implementation, “Survivorship at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center: Creating a Practical Workflow.” ...
Webinar – Amplifying Your Message: Advocating Through Traditional Media Channels
NCCS hosted a CPAT webinar on leveraging traditional media for cancer advocacy with public relations and marketing expert Michael Holtz. While social media is an important tool for amplifying cancer ...
Webinar – Implementing the ASCO Guidelines for Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management with Your Patients and Practice
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) hosted a Survivorship Champions webinar discussing the American Society for Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Guidelines for Exercise, Nutrition, and Weight Management and how to ...
Webinar – How to Lead a Heart Healthy Life – Norrisa Haynes, MD
In this webinar hosted by NCCS, Cardiologist Dr. Norrisa Haynes of Yale University presents the basics of heart disease, including risk factors and the interplay between heart disease and cancer ...
NCCS Presents The State of Cancer Survivorship: 2022 Survey Results
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) conducts an annual State of Survivorship Survey, in partnership with Edge Research, to delve into the cancer patient and survivor journey. This study ...
Webinar – Exercise Is Medicine in Oncology: Implementation Based on Solid Evidence
NCCS hosted a webinar featuring Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, a leading researcher in exercise oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Schmitz’s research focuses on people living with ...
Webinar – Care and Career Support: From Health Systems to Employers
NCCS hosted a webinar about the unique demands of caregiving in cancer and strategies that employers and health systems might engage to support caregivers. Webinar Speakers Margaret L. Longacre, PhD, ...
Webinar – Beyond the Checkbox: Delivering Meaningful Cancer Survivorship Care in a Community Setting
Dr. Crystal Labbato joined NCCS to deliver a presentation about providing an effective model of cancer survivorship care in a community setting. Dr. Labbato is the Survivorship Program Coordinator for ...
Webinar: Survivorship Needs for People Living with Advanced and Metastatic Cancers
Dr. Michelle Mollica, Senior Advisor at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Office of Cancer Survivorship, joined NCCS to discuss NCI’s recent efforts focused on understanding and addressing the survivorship needs ...
Webinar: A Nurse-Led Care Model to Improve Access to Rural Cancer Survivorship Care
Pam DeGuzman, PhD, RN, joined NCCS to discuss the development and evaluation of Comprehensive Assistance: Rural Interventions, Nursing and Guidance (CARING), a nurse-led intervention aimed at reducing disparities in quality ...
COVID-19 and Cancer: Otis Brawley, MD on the Future of the Pandemic
This week, globally-recognized cancer control expert Otis Brawley, MD, joined NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso to discuss the current state of the COVID-19 pandemic and what cancer survivors need to ...
COVID-19 and Cancer Panel Discussion: Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Grief During Uncertain Times
NCCS has been collecting questions from patients and survivors on the coronavirus crisis and decided to address these questions through a series of webinars and podcasts. NCCS hosted a conversation ...
Webinar Video – Redefining Functional Status: A Patient-Led Quality Measurement Effort
“What would health care measurement look like if it reflected what patients and caregivers say matters most to them?” Background Quality measurement in cancer care is primarily focused on ensuring ...
NCCS Webinar Video: “The Outlook for Health Care in the New Congress”
Health care was the number one issue for a majority of voters in the 2018 midterm elections. With the House majority changing hands and a split Congress, in this webinar ...
NCCS Webinar Video: “Understanding Fear of Cancer Recurrence”
Those with a cancer experience are all too familiar with the anxiety that many experience wondering and waiting if and how cancer may return. New research is helping shed more ...
ACA Update | January 26, 2017: Watch Our ACA Webinar
President Donald Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress will soon be making good on their campaign promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). While replacement plans have been ...
Become a CPAT Member for Free
No one knows where or how to improve cancer care better than you—someone who has experienced it as a patient or caregiver. That’s why more than 900 advocates have joined the NCCS Cancer Policy and Advocacy Team (CPAT), a program designed to provide those touched by cancer with the tools and training to apply their experiences to become empowered advocates.
For more information about CPAT, contact us at cpat@canceradvocacy.org.
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2025 CPAT Symposium
Explore the agenda, speaker bios, slide decks, and other resources from the event.
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