By Christine Thompson, NCC Cancer Prevention Programs Manager

There’s a lot to be said for following your gut instinct, especially when it comes to your health. 

But when you’re a director of a neonatal intensive care unit who’s also in graduate school and also a wife and expectant mother, the path of least resistance when your healthcare provider tells you that a mole on your neck appears benign, that some moles change during pregnancy, that the removal of a benign mole will leave an unsightly scar, is to let it go.

Dignity Health St. Rose Dominican in Las Vegas is offering two new sessions of its "Powerful Tools for Caregivers" workshop. The six-week series offers caregivers the skills to care for themselves while caring for others. The sessions touch on local resources, managing emotions, self-confidence and self-care.

The Children's Oncology Group Family Handbook provides families with reliable information about treatment, support, and follow-up care for children and young people with cancer.

If your child has cancer, this guide can help you every step of the way. This guide can be printed as a PDF booklet, or viewed as an ePub, or Kindle book. The book is divided into five sections: diagnosis, treatment, support, life after, and resources.

Each section also has quotes from parents, related resources, and questions to help you get more in-depth and personalized information. This guide is designed to be used as a tool in consultation with your child’s health care team.

Guys, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? Aside from COVID-19 testing and vaccination, when was the last time you went to the doctor to check in on your general health? If it’s been more than a year, it’s time to make an appointment.

Cancer Community Clubhouse is one of northern and rural Nevada's newest resources for cancer survivors and thrivers. Founded by Natalie Zacharczyk and her sister Michelle Taylor, CCC offers programs focused on key aspects of survivorship: social and emotional support, healthy living, and education. Natalie and Michelle say their ultimate goal is to help others create personal connections and empower the lives of CCC's members to reclaim joy and purpose at any stage of their cancer journey.

And that’s a wrap! This year’s legislative session was packed with activity, much of it at the last minute.

One such bill, an exciting development for NCC, was SB 460 put together by the Senate Finance Committee that Assembly Ways and Means Chair Maggie Carlton shared was considered the “add back” bill. It provides funding from the state’s general fund to “reinstate” funding that was previously cut due to a large projected pandemic-related budget deficit.

It was the worst of circumstances. A not-quite 28-year-old woman - newly relocated, unemployed, and uninsured - feels a small lump on her left breast. 

Two weeks later she has a mammogram, followed minutes later by an ultrasound. “The technician is taking lots of pictures and says, ‘I’m going to get the radiologist.’ The radiologist enters the room and almost without preamble says, ‘I think you have breast cancer and you should start researching financial assistance and other means of support.’”

"Love Legacy: A guidebook for families anticipating the death of a parent" hopes to help families through a parent's illness and death by providing interactive activities to maintain connections, continue the parent's memories after death, and ease the transitions.

Ashley L. doesn’t consider herself to be a survivor.