Cancer Nation

Thank you, Bayer for featuring Cancer Nation at your "Who Moves You?" installation at .

Throughout the meeting, attendees have been honoring the people who inspire, support, and carry them forward by adding names and messages to this beautiful interactive wind chime wall.

We're grateful to see the voices of survivors, caregivers, loved ones, and advocates reflected in this space, and proud that Cancer Nation is part of the story.

If you're at ASCO, stop by the Bayer exhibit in the Exhibit Hall and add your own tribute. Honor someone who moves you. Share a name, a memory, or a message of support.

Because cancer touches every town, every family, and every heart.

We are heartbroken to share the passing of William "Kirby" Lewis, a longtime Cancer Nation advocate and relentless voice for male breast cancer survivors.

Kirby was a U.S. Navy veteran who lived with metastatic breast cancer for more than 10 years.

He turned his experience into a platform: educating communities, advocating on Capitol Hill, and making sure men with breast cancer knew they were not invisible.

Kirby knew firsthand what it meant to be dismissed, to search for support and find none, and to decide that the answer was to build it yourself.

We are deeply grateful for Kirby's years of service to our country and to our community of survivors.

Have a car you don’t need?

Turn it into something that matters.

Cancer Nation has partnered with Charitable Adult Rides and Services (CARS) to make donating your car, truck, motorcycle, boat, or RV—running or not—simple.

✔ Free pickup
✔ Simple process
✔ Tax-deductible
✔ 80% of proceeds support Cancer Nation

Call (855) 500-RIDE or get started online today.

Donation link: https://careasy.org/cancer-nation

We are heartbroken to share that Susie Leigh, one of Cancer Nation's founding members, has passed away.

Susie helped found this organization in 1986, helped change the language from "cancer victim" to "cancer survivor," and spent more than 50 years making sure the health care system had to listen to the people it served.

She was a five-time survivor, an oncology nurse, a mentor, and a dear friend to so many in this community.

We honor her by continuing the work she gave everything to.
Read our full tribute: https://canceradvocacy.org/remembering-susie-leigh-a-founder-a-force-and-a-friend/

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Cancer care doesn’t come with a manual. But survivors deserve tools that make the road less overwhelming.

The Cancer Survival Toolbox® is a free resource built by survivors to help people navigate diagnosis, treatment decisions, financial pressures, work, communication, and more.

If someone in your life is trying to figure out what comes next, share this with them: https://canceradvocacy.org/resources/cancer-survival-toolbox/

Applications for the 2026 Cancer Nation Leadership Academy are now open!

Join a community of advocates working side by side to improve care, close gaps in access, and make a lasting difference for people navigating cancer in every community.

If you’re ready to challenge what isn’t working and help build something better, this is your moment.

Apply now: https://canceradvocacy.org/get-involved/leadership-academy/

A chest X-ray at the Mayo Clinic finally showed what months of appointments couldn't: a large mass. Jessie Lindemann was 28, sick, and had been dismissed too many times to count.

She finished six months of chemotherapy, completed radiation, and made a deal with herself: become a physician so she could be the doctor she needed. Now, 23 years later, she's a family doctor and cancer survivor building a survivorship center in North Dakota because the system still isn't giving survivors what they need when treatment ends.

Her message to every survivor: "The way you feel is normal. It is correct. And there are people out there who will help you."

Read Jessie's full story: https://canceradvocacy.org/from-diagnosis-to-doctor-jesse-lindemann-md-became-the-doctor-she-needed/

Big news for Americans living with, through, and beyond cancer!

The Lainie Jones Comprehensive Cancer Survivorship Act was just introduced in Congress, and it's exactly what 18 million survivors have been waiting for — bipartisan legislation that would make survivorship care planning, care coordination, and financial protections a reality for survivors nationwide.

We're proud to stand with Debbie Wasserman Schultz , Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick Rep. Mark DeSaulnier and Joe Wilson and grateful for the partnership of Lymphoma Research Foundation and Children's Cancer Cause in advancing this work.

Read our full statement here: https://canceradvocacy.org/cancer-nation-applauds-introduction-lainie-jones-comprehensive-cancer-survivorship-act/

Travel costs shouldn’t decide who gets heard.
When survivors join us for the Summit in Washington, DC, they gain the tools, community, and platform to demand better cancer care for us all.

Support the Summit Scholarship Fund and help bring more voices to the table.

Link: https://nationalcoalitionforcancersurvivorship-bloom.kindful.com/?campaign=1408529