NCCS Marks 30 Years of Cancer Survivorship Advocacy
On October 13, 2016, the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) recognized its 30th anniversary of advocating to improve cancer care. Current and past NCCS staff and board members, cancer survivors, caregivers, and representatives from throughout the cancer community attended to commemorate this milestone. Today as the nation’s oldest survivor-led ...
Defining Cancer Survivorship
It did not occur to me while I was acutely ill or for some time afterward that the simple concepts of sickness and cure were insufficient to describe what was happening to me. As with most cancer patients, the quality of my life during this period was severely compromised, and the ...
