A five-year grant of more than $1.4 million will fund a program to train nurses in helping survivors achieve the best possible quality of life after cancer.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering physicians Yukio Sonoda and Nadeem Abu-Rustum were joined by cancer survivors and their children to celebrate 10 years of Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s radical trachelectomy program.
In 2003, Mary McCabe was recruited to lead Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Cancer Survivorship Initiative and since that time has worked to develop a comprehensive program for cancer survivors, which includes follow-up care, research, and education and training.
Cancer survivors and staff gathered on June 22 to celebrate National Cancer Survivors Day. The keynote speaker, baseball legend Joe Torre, praised the care provided by Memorial Sloan-Kettering and spoke about being a survivor.