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NCCS Urges FDA to Finalize Graphic Health Warnings for Cigarette Packs and Advertisements

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NCCS joined with public health and medical organizations in a comment letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the proposed rule to establish health warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements. The comment letter outlines the overwhelming evidence that shows color graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and ads substantially increases and promotes greater public understanding of the dangers of smoking, […]

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Guest Post: The Progress of Prevention—The Culmination of 20 Years of Advocacy

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Twenty years ago NCCS defined quality cancer care to include a full spectrum of necessary services for cancer patients. These included primary and secondary prevention, early detection, initial treatment, supportive therapies to manage pain, nausea, fatigue, and infections, long-term follow-up, psychosocial services, palliative care, hospice care, and bereavement counseling.  This principle, and all of the […]

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Revisiting the Fifth Principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care

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This month, as part of the 20 Years Later blog series, we are revisiting the fifth principle of the Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: Access, Advocacy, and Accountability. This principle states: “People with cancer should be provided a range of benefits by all health care plans that includes primary and secondary prevention, early detection, initial […]

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“We Are Giving Ourselves Cancer” Op Ed: Consequences of Radiation from Medical Imaging

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In a January 31st  New York Times  Op Ed,  Drs. Rita Redberg and Rebecca Smith-Bindman of UCSF Medical Center report on how the increased uses of medical technologies for diagnosing, treating, and monitoring diseases like cancer, are contributing to unprecedented exposures to radiation.  The consequences of these exposures is well documented, particularly for people diagnosed […]

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“Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer” Considers Inevitability of Cancer

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In a recent article in The New York Times, George Johnson,  the author of “The Cancer Chronicles,”  analyzes the state of the current “standoff” with cancer. While noting advances in science and prevention that have improved childhood cancer survival rates and reduced the prevalence of some cancers, Johnson describes the biological patterns that increase the likelihood […]

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Infection causes 1 in 6 cancers worldwide

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One in six cancers worldwide is caused by preventable or treatable infections, a new study finds. Infections cause about 2 million cancer cases a year, and 80 percent of those cases occur in less developed areas of the world, according to the study, which was published online May 8 in The Lancet Oncology. Of the […]

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IOM workshop summary on “The Role of Obesity in Cancer Survival and Recurrence” now available

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Given the increasing rate of obesity and an aging population more susceptible to cancer, there is mounting concern about obesity’s role in fueling tumor growth. Recent research suggests that excess weight and obesity can influence cancer survival and recurrence. Additionally, there is interest in exploring ways to break the obesity-cancer link, especially in patients already […]

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