NCCS – National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

Cancer Nation strongly supports a health care system free of waste, fraud, and abuse. Health care resources must be directed to delivery of reasonable and necessary care at an affordable cost. Such a system is critical to ensuring that people with cancer have access to high quality, affordable care from diagnosis and across the continuum of their disease. In our decades of se...

Cancer Nation’s Webinar Series presents a clear, practical conversation about advances in blood-based testing and how they’re shaping cancer care. These tools are helping care teams learn more about tumor changes over time and, in some cases, guide more perso...

Susan (Susie) Leigh, BSN, RN-Retired — one of the founding members of Cancer Nation, a five-time cancer survivor, and one of the most influential voices in the history of the cancer survivorship movement has passed away. We are heartbroken, and we are deeply grateful.

Susie did not simply witness the birth of the cancer survivorship movement. She helped build ...

Jessie had built her early career in chemistry. She was working toward a graduate degree in the field when her health began to decline in ways that were difficult to name: persistent fatigue, unexplained rashes, depression without a clear source. She kept seeing doctors. She kept leaving without answers. And it kept feeling like the problem was hers to prove, not theirs to fi...

Washington, DC, May 14, 2026 – Cancer Nation applauds the introduction of the Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act, bold legislation designed to help cancer survivors not just live longer, but live better. We salute Representati...