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 this webinar you will learn about the evolutionary function of both positive and negative emotions, understand that emotions offer data, ...
NCCS Presents 8th Annual Ellen L. Stovall Awards to Phuong Gallagher and Mary McCabe, RN for Their Innovation and Dedication to Cancer Survivors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 30, 2023 Washington, D.C. – The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) presented the 8th annual Ellen L. Stovall Award for Innovation in Patient-Centered Cancer Care to Mary McCabe, RN, MA and Phuong Gallagher on October 26, 2023. Named for former NCCS CEO, Ellen Stovall, who ...
Championing Survivorship: Woody Brokenburr’s Lifelong Dedication to Cancer Advocacy
Woodrow “Woody” Brokenburr was diagnosed with cancer when he was 9 years old, after a biopsy revealed that the lump on his left thigh was osteosarcoma. In the 1960s, pediatric cancer care was challenging, even more so for Black children living in the racially segregated south, as access to quality ...
Arsenic and Advocacy: Sarah Cohn’s Experience with Rare Leukemia Spurs Action
Diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia called acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL), Sarah Cohn's cancer diagnosis at the age of 30 took her by surprise. Sarah had just started a new job when symptoms appeared. “For survivors, it seems like there is always one thing that happens that leads directly ...
Betsy Glosik: A Cancer Survivor’s Journey Towards Integrative Healing and Advocacy
For Betsy Glosik, the early 2000s brought one trauma after another. She lost her aunt to melanoma. Then, tragically she lost her 20-yr old daughter to a car accident. In 2003, after years of mentioning her concerns about a mole on her foot to her dermatologist, and repeatedly having her ...
NCCS Celebrates Launch of Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-23), a champion for cancer survivors and a survivor herself, held a press conference today to introduce the Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act (CCSA), new comprehensive survivorship legislation that will directly benefit cancer survivors. She was joined by Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who ...
Alique Topalian: Childhood Cancer and the Frightening Realities of the Survivorship Journey
Alique was first diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) at the age of four. Her mother, Michele, knew something was wrong because “the light in her eyes was gone”. After being told by doctors that there was nothing wrong, her family was relentless until new blood work uncovered blast cells ...
Amanda Helms: Care Planning, Mental Health, and Palliative Care are Essential to Quality Cancer Care
Amanda Helms was enjoying a bubble bath while reading a book when she looked down and noticed a lump on the side of her breast in January of 2020. She had a bad feeling about it instantly, even though she had no family history or risk factors. She went to ...
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 and beyond cancer and investigates the role exercise in improving physiologic and psychosocial outcomes including symptoms, treatment tolerance, and other ...
Michael Holtz: Everyone Has a Place in the Advocacy Community
"Everyone has a place in the advocacy continuum: Your lived experience is important." Michael Holtz didn’t know that the “funky” digestive symptoms in December of 2011 would be the first signs of his cancer diagnosis. These rectal spasms would leave Michael rushing to the bathroom, and either nothing would happen ...
