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Coronavirus and Cancer Resources for Survivors

Cancer survivors have expressed concerns and questions about COVID-19, the coronavirus, and how they may be at higher risk due to their cancer history. Here are some resources about COVID-19 generally, and its impact for cancer survivors specifically. NCCS is seeking answers from public health experts on the coronavirus and its impact on cancer patients and survivors. Please leave a comment [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: GOP Targets Employer Mandate, Hospitals Create Non-Profit Drug Company, Sex After Cancer, “Paperwork Paralysis”

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. “Obamacare didn’t get repealed — so why did the uninsured rate still go up?” — The uninsured rate went up in 2017, new Gallup data shows — the first time this has happened since the Affordable Care Act’s coverage expansion took effect. This works out to an estimated 3.2 million fewer Americans [...]
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Kirby Lewis: My NCCS CPAT Symposium and Hill Day Experience

Through my association with Living Beyond Breast Cancer, I was invited to attend a workshop Symposium with the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. The CPAT Symposium was held just steps away from Capitol Hill at the Washington Court Hotel. It was a great, incredibly informative, and intensive 2-day training session. CPAT members hailed from all over the country, with all types of cancer. In total, approximately 65 people [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: Only 31% View AHCA Favorably, Immunotherapy Hope & Hype, Male Breast Cancer, the Stigma of Lung Cancer

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE), June 2, 2017: “Kaiser Health Tracking Poll Shows Americans View AHCA Unfavorably” — With Congress currently discussing the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan that would repeal and replace the 2010 health care law, this month’s Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that more Americans have an unfavorable view of the plan than a favorable one (55 percent vs. 31 percent, respectively). [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: ‘Extremely High Premiums’ for the Sick, AHCA News, FDA Aims to Control Rx Pricing, & More

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. Via Kaiser Health News — "The Republican overhaul of the federal health law passed by the House this month would result in slightly lower premiums and slightly fewer uninsured [...]
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What Caught Our Eye: AHCA Analysis, Medicaid Caps, Obamacare Helped Early Detection, ESPN’s Holly Rowe, Counseling Improves Care Planning

What Caught Our Eye is our week-in-review blog series, where we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. In the Spotlight – Via Modern Healthcare: “Up to 6.3 million people could end up paying substantially higher premiums if a bill similar to the House’s Obamacare replacement becomes law, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.” [...]
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Mommy, Where’s Your Hair? (And Other Questions I Faced as a Parent with Cancer)

It’s one thing to have cancer, and quite another to have children witness it. At age 37, I was diagnosed with Stage IV inflammatory breast cancer; I had a large tumor in my left breast, and the cancer had spread to lymph nodes and a rib. And I had a 14-month-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. Parenting with cancer is sadly not an uncommon phenomenon; [...]
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Guest Post: For the Love of a Friend

My dear friend Avery[1], a woman I’ve known since we were 10 years old (in 5th grade together) was diagnosed with inflammatory…
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WCOE: NCCS Moonshot Op-Ed, ACA Enrollment Deadline, Susan Gubar, BRCA Gene and Family, Poor Treatment Outcomes for Minorities

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/692798220691443713 https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/691722895517728768 https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/693095222419537920 https://twitter.com/CancerAdvocacy/status/691793511360942080 https://twitter.com/AACR/status/693087483597185024 More…
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WCOE: Cancer Causing Infections, the Uncertainty of Prognosis, A Grim Breast Cancer Milestone for Black Women, Important Healthcare Marketplace Dates, and the Financial Toll of Cancer

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. …
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WCOE: Deciding About Dying, Discourse Surrounding New Mammogram Guidelines, Biden’s Commitment to Helping People with Cancer, and Breast Cancer in Developing World

What Caught Our Eye (WCOE) Each week, we recap the cancer policy articles, studies, and stories that caught our attention. h…

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