Coming Together To Conquer Cancer SM is over and was a success, we thought you would be interested in reading the letter we wrote for the religious and spiritual community in support of that event. The NCCS Spirituality Committee intends to continue its work. If you or your organizations would like to be informed of the future efforts of the committee or would like to participate in future efforts to educate the religious and spiritual community about cancer survivorship, please submit the form below. Thank you for your interest. Each day, more than 8 million cancer survivors, their families, friends, and caregivers face the challenge of living with, through, and beyond cancer.
Cancer spares no one.
It touches families, children, women, and men of all ages, backgrounds, and faiths. Religious and spiritual communities have always supported their members during times of crisis. When the crisis of cancer strikes individuals and their loved ones, they often turn to their spiritual communities for guidance. The real-life and spiritual support offered enables those in crisis to sort out the meaning of this frightening disease in the larger scope of their lives and to partake of the healing power of prayer and community. And they continue to look to their religious and spiritual communities long after the physical realities of the disease pass.