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 Baptist Health Louisville and LaGrange hospitals in Kentucky. Nearly 17 years since the Institute of Medicine released their landmark report, ...

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 for the growing population of survivors who are living with advanced and metastatic cancers. Bethany Ross, CPAT Steering Committee Member ...

Advocate Spotlight May 2022 - Erin McGee Ferrell Erin McGee Ferrell’s cancer was discovered during a traditional ceremony in a small Ecuadorian town along the Amazon River. She’d been traveling as an independent artist for five weeks, researching natural paints and pigments from Amazonian plants and minerals. Although she felt ...

Advocate Spotlight April 2022 - Brad Power Brad Power was a process innovation researcher and consultant with more than 35 years of experience, as well as an author of more than 75 articles for the Harvard Business Review, when he was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2018. After successfully completing a standard ...

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 of life for rural cancer survivors. During active treatment, rural survivors may forgo supportive care interventions to prioritize and consolidate ...

Last week, NCCS hosted a conversation with cancer control expert and epidemiologist Otis Brawley, MD. NCCS CEO Shelley Fuld Nasso moderated the discussion. “We knew exactly who we wanted to be our first guest speaker in this series. Dr. Otis Brawley is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, ...

In March of 2003, Jean Di Carlo-Wagner listened to a public service announcement by Katie Couric, in which she discussed the symptoms of colon cancer. It was then that Jean knew she had cancer. After two years of bowel changes, fatigue, reflux, pain in her gut, weight changes, night sweats, ...

NCCS has advocated for the inclusion of paid family and medical leave in the Build Back Better Act and will continue to elevate this policy as a priority for cancer survivors and their families. Recently, NCCS joined with other patient and caregiver organizations to send a letter urging the Biden ...

“I'm beautiful. I'm blessed, I'm loved, and I'm strong. I'm grateful. I'm victorious. I am a warrior. I am a survivor – but, more importantly, I am enough in Jesus’ name. Amen,” Roberta Albany says when she’s feeling down, depressed, or not like her confident self before her breast cancer ...

NCCS joined with other members of the Partnership to Protect Coverage coalition in sending a letter to the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor urging them to issue new regulations limiting the sale and availability of short-term, limited-duration (STLD) health insurance. Unlike traditional health insurance, STLD insurance ...