NCCS Resources
NCCS offers free resources on various issues for people living with, through, and beyond cancer. All of the resources can be useful to the person diagnosed with cancer as well as their family members, friends and caregivers.
Cancer Survival Toolbox
The Cancer Survival Toolbox® is a free, award-winning audio program that teaches skills that can help people with cancer meet the challenges of their illness. The Toolbox includes a Basic Skills set that covers six important topics: communicating, finding information, making decisions, solving problems, negotiating, and standing up for your rights. In addition, the Toolbox includes four additional programs that cover topics for older persons, finding ways to pay for care, caring for the caregiver, and living beyond cancer. This program is available in Spanish and Chinese (transcript only).
Publications
Clicking on the title of each publication will take you to a PDF version of the document. All NCCS publications are available in hard copy, and the first copy is free. The publications listed below are also available for purchase in bulk quantities. You can order publications online or call 877.NCCS.YES (622.7937).
- What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance
This book sorts through the insurance maze by explaining the many types of insurance, exploring ways cancer survivors can get the most out of their insurance coverage and discussing laws that provide some protection for cancer survivors changing jobs.
- Teamwork: The Cancer Patient's Guide to Talking with Your Doctor
Developed by cancer survivors and health care professionals, this book addresses the need for good communication and provides a list of sound, practical questions that patients can use when talking with their doctor.
- Working It Out: Your Employment Rights as a Cancer Survivors
Unfortunately, many cancer survivors experience workplace discrimination. In fact, one survey found that American workers with cancer are fired or laid off five times as often as other workers. This book addresses the employment challenges that many survivors face and offers advice and resources to address those challenges.
- You Have the Right to Be Hopeful
Hope is essential for a cancer survivor to achieve personal satisfaction with his or her quality of life. This book defines the many ways that hope can be present in a survivor's life and offers a place for survivors to chronicle and reflect on their cancer journey.
- Self-Advocacy: A Cancer Survivor's Handbook
NCCS believes that cancer becomes a much lesser foe when faced by informed and knowledgeable health care consumers who know how to communicate their needs to those who can be helpful to them as they experience cancer. This handbook focuses on self-training steps and tools to assist and empower individuals dealing with cancer.
- A Cancer Survivor's Almanac: Charting Your Journey
(available only in hard copy)
The Almanac provides practical information on health insurance, communicating with family and friends, dealing with loss, advocating for yourself, and job discrimination. It also offers information on medical diagnosis, treatment, pain control, long-term and late effects of cancer treatment, and coping with the personal and social impact of cancer. The resource directory lists hundreds of organizations and agencies that offer help with specific cancer-related issues and explains how to find cancer information through the Internet
Online Guides
- First Steps Guide: Read a step-by-step guide to finding cancer resources online.
- Next Steps: Post-Treatment Guide: Read a step-by-step guide to finding online post-treatment resources.
- Resource Guide: Find resources about cancer type, palliative care and symptom management, cancer centers, and services.
