Cancer: Keys to Survivorship
Education — and the power and skill to use it — are the most important tools that a cancer survivor can have. That's why NCCS teamed up with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society to bring you Cancer: Keys to Survivorship.
Cancer: Keys to Survivorship is a free program that teaches cancer survivors, family members, friends, caregivers, and health professionals the important skills to help live with, beyond and through cancer. You also can view three Cancer: Keys to Survivorship programs via the below webcasts!
- Communicating with Healthcare Providers
- Working It Out: Your Employment Rights as a Cancer Survivor
- What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance
The four basic modules to the Cancer: Keys to Survivorship program are:
Communicating with your Health Care Practitioner and Strategies for Self Advocacy
- Explore various aspects of the patient-provider relationship
- Discuss the challenges of communicating with health care professionals
- Acquire tools for becoming a better communicator
- Learn about survivorship, its various stages and how to use this knowledge to become an effective self-advocate
Fighting Fatigue
- Learn strategies to communicate effectively with your health care provider about your concerns such as pain and fatigue
- Discuss how attitudes and beliefs affect the cancer survivorship experience
- Explore healthy ways of experiencing disease and taking action
Working It Out: Your Employment Rights As A Cancer Survivor
- Discuss employment issues faced by cancer survivors
- Learn to identify illegal cancer-based discrimination, ways to avoid it, and actions to take if it occurs
- Learn about national and local resources you can use to get information and help you resolve employment issues
What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance
- Learn about federal and state health insurance regulations and how to obtain and collect health insurance benefits
- Discuss the different types of insurance coverage available, including coverage for clinical trials
- Learn about national and local resources to use to find out more about health insurance
