What’s inside:

  • Lobbying Efforts for H.R. 1546
    • NCCS initiated lobbying efforts in May 1987 for the Cancer Patients’ Employment Rights Act.
  • Job Discrimination: How You Can Fight Back, by Barbara Hoffman, J.D.
    • Why the Cancer Patients’ Employment Rights Act is necessary for cancer patients and survivors.
  • A Letter From the President of NCCS, by Fitzhugh Mullan, M.D.
  • NCCS Advisory Board
  • Bike America Tour to Benefit NCCS
    • Introduction of the organization Bike America, founded to raise public awareness and funds for charity, starting with NCCS in 1987.
  • Delayed Side Effects of Cancer Treatment
    • Information obtained from an interview with Patricia Ganz, M.D., medical oncologist and founding member of NCCS.
  • Samplings
    • Printed materials across the country by people involved with cancer survivorship, such as newsletters.
  • NCCS & Harrington Cancer Center, Mutual Benefactors, by Kathy Watson
    • An article on what Watson hoped would be many of national interest on cancer survivorship issues.
  • Follow-up on Art Show
    • Follow-up on Confronting Cancer Through Art 1987, the first national exhibit by fine artists who had experienced cancer.