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Accessing COVID-19 Resources After the Public Health Emergency Ends

May 4, 2023

The COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), which has been in effect since early 2020, will end on May 11, 2023. The federal government…

NCCS Urges Insurance Companies to Preserve Access to DIEP Flap Breast Reconstruction

April 28, 2023

This week, NCCS joined other patient advocacy organizations and medical professional societies in submitting a letter to the CEOs of…

Webinar – Amplifying Your Message: Advocating Through Traditional Media Channels

April 21, 2023

NCCS hosted a CPAT webinar on leveraging traditional media for cancer advocacy with public relations and marketing expert Michael Holtz.…

NCCS and Cancer Leadership Council Issue Comments on Implementation of Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program

April 20, 2023

NCCS joined with other member organizations of the Cancer Leadership Council (CLC) in a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…

Lisa Rice – My Breast Cancer Journey: Many Lessons Learned and More in Store

April 20, 2023

During my final semester of college, a life-changing call came. My mother was in the hospital, waiting for results of a biopsy of a tumor she’d found in her breast. My father told me that she’d already decided, if the tumor was malignant, she would proceed with a radical mastectomy [...]

Ruth Travis: Cancer Is Not a Death Sentence. It’s a License to Live.

April 6, 2023

Ruth Travis knows the power of early detection. She started getting regular mammograms when she was 40 years old. After 22 years, the annual process was nothing new. In 2007, Ruth arrived for her annual screening mammogram [...]