What’s inside:
- Advocacy Update – Coalition signs court briefing in medical-leave lawsuit, by Barbara Hoffman, J.D.
- NCCS joins a “friend of the court” brief in a case that could have a wide-ranging impact
- NCCS’ Imperatives for Quality Cancer Care: a key to the future of healthcare, by Diann K. Austin, J.D.
- The NCCS created a guideline and action plan for access, advocacy, action, and accountability for cancer survivors.
- War on cancer a bust—not! By Ellen Stovall
- NCCS Executive Director Ellen Stovall speaks her mind in a punchy letter to USA Today
- Coping with cancer in the family: Can we talk? By Betsy Clark, Ph.D.
- If you have cancer and you have a family, their lives change, too. Here’s what can happen, with tips for family coping.
- Survivors’ radio show a natural channel for advocates
- Selma Schimmel hosts radio’s only call-in show on cancer, a support group for the nation.
- Cancer fatigue: more than just plain tired
- A introspection on the most common side effect of cancer treatment.
- Innovative program at Johns Hopkins sets standard for quality cancer care, by Betsy Clark, Ph.D.
- ALCASE: Leading the charge against lung cancer, by Sonja Tyler
- The Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, & Education (ALCASE)
- Principal gives students a living profile in courage, by Anita Baumann
- Robert Clark, principal of a high school in Virginia, taught his students something about true grit.
- Hope & Cope: Peer support flowers in Montreal
- Landmark video summit touts lung-cancer research advances, clinical trials, by Sandra Fox
- Conference warns of barriers blocking people from care, by Brad Zebrack, MSW, MPH
- Actor Robert Urich to keynote Anderson Network’s conference
