Word: survivorship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tumor was to annihilate it, this may be hard to imagine. But turning cancer into a controllable condition is not so different from treating high blood pressure or diabetes. "I don't think curing cancer is the goal," says Ellen Stovall, executive director of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. Instead, she says, "it should be helping people live as long and as well as they...
...earth: it will not explode as a result of increasing temperatures, and other forms of life will adapt and evolve (or not) to the changing conditions. However, climate change is immensely threatening to our species, because the floods, droughts and proliferation of parasites and bacteria harm our survivorship on this planet. So although the pervasive icons of environmentalism are baby seals or coral reefs, make no mistake about it, the movement is at heart about the human species, about our nations, our communities, and our quality of life...
Champagne's previously published book, The Politics of Survivorship, discussed incest in the context of feminist and queer theories and psychoanalysis, her three main fields of study...
...guidelines will make the burden of cancer lighter for those of us who have borne it or are bearing it," said Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, founder of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. "Pain is not an inevitability in cancer...
...with Disabilities Act of 1990, which is being phased in this year, will give cancer victims explicit federal protection against on-the-job discrimination. That part of the law was largely the result of spirited lobbying by a growing network of grassroots survivor organizations. The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, an umbrella organization based in Albuquerque, N. Mex., now boasts the membership of 400 different groups across...