DQ'S CANCER VICTIMS & SURVIVORS SUPPORT HERD
The National Coalition for Cancer
Survivorship
(NCCS) pioneered the definition of survivor
as from
the time of diagnosis and for the balance
of life,
a person diagnosed with cancer is a
survivor.
This expansive definition of "survivor"
includes people
who are dying from untreatable cancer.
NCCS later expanded the definition of
survivor
even further to include family, friends
and
caregivers
who are affected by the diagnosis in any
way.
The National Cancer Institute's Office of
Cancer
Survivorship uses a variant of this
expanded definition
[1] while Macmillan Cancer Support defines
a cancer
survivor as someone who is "living with or
beyond cancer",
namely someone who: * has completed initial
cancer
management and has no apparent evidence of
active disease;
* is living with progressive disease and may be
receiving
cancer treatment, but is not in the terminal phases
of illness;
or * has had cancer in the past.
[2] NEEDS OF SURVIVORS People who have finished
cancer treatment
often have psychological and medical challenges.
[3] These effects can vary from person to person,
and range in intensity from mild and intermittent to fully
disabling.
THIS IS A HERD WHERE LOVE AND COMPASSION RULE.
WHERE WE SUPPORT ALL CANCER VICTIMS AND
SURVIVORS. WHERE INFORMATION IS SHARED.
WHERE MEMBERS SHARE WITH EACH OTHER A HOME
FROM HOME.
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
REST IN PEACE ALL CANCER VICTIMS WHO HAVE PASSED,
ANGELS WITH ANGELS XOXOXOXOX
IN MEMORY OF MY SISTER, CHARMAINE KAPIRI
