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Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 - Changing the Conversation

NBCC has set a deadline to end breast cancer. Join us at the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund's 2011 Annual Advocacy Training Conference to find out how you can be an integral part of our Breast Cancer Deadline 2020--a strategic plan to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020.

For decades, the breast cancer movement has existed within the context of hoping to find a cure and hoping for an end. NBCC says, "No more!" By setting a deadline, we demand that from this moment forward, all research and policy decisions surrounding breast cancer are made and guided by the goal of ending this disease by 2020.

The 2011 NBCC Advocacy Training Conference will teach breast cancer advocates how they can play a vital role in shifting the conversation to a focus on ending breast cancer by 2020. Sessions will give advocates the skills, knowledge and tools they need to support Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 both locally and nationally. The 2011 conference program will provide advocates access to:

  • Experts in innovation with proven track records for leading successful change initiatives
  • Leading scientists in key areas of prevention and metastasis
  • Front-line policy-makers discussing how to change government to help achieve the Breast Cancer Deadline 2020 goal
  • Hands-on training in the most effective advocate strategies to end breast cancer

Join the conversation at NBCC's 2011 Annual Advocacy Training Conference, and be part of the movement that ends breast cancer by 2020.

 
 
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship

Post-treatment Care Needs to Gain National Attention...
The idea that cancer survivors benefit from long-term follow-up care is the focus of a story in this week’s New York Times Health section. You can read Cancer Care Seeks to Take Patients Beyond Survival by clicking here.

Reporter Leslie Berger does a commendable job of outlining several reasons why a carefully planned transition from active treatment to post-treatment care is essential to long-term health and quality of life for cancer survivors.

An oncologist is quoted as saying it is important for anybody who has had cancer “to know what treatment they received and what it’s likely to lead to in the future.”

Resources for transitioning from active treatment to life after treatment:
NCCS offers several resources to help patients with the sometimes scary transition to life after cancer treatment. Our award winning Cancer Survival Toolbox has a dedicated module: Living Beyond Cancer. You can listen to this module by clicking here.

Living Beyond Cancer is also available free as a separate program on audio compact disk. If you would like to have a CD of Living Beyond Cancer sent to you you can order it by calling toll free: 1-877-NCCS-YES (1-877-622-7937).

In addition to Living Beyond Cancer, NCCS also has an online guide to post-treatment resources.

Take action to improve post-treatment cancer care...
You can support a national effort that would improve cancer care at all points of treatment, including post-treatment. The Comprehensive Cancer Care Improvement Act (CCCIA), H.R. 1078 in the U.S. House of Representatives, would provide care planning services for all Medicare cancer patients. This bill would help give patients a full view of their medical needs during and after cancer treatment and would provide plans for obtaining the care they need. To send a letter to your Representative asking for support of the CCCIA click here. https://secure2.convio.net/nccs/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr009=j9qfoopax2.app7a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=109


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