Usually a reservist undergoing cancer treatment is limited to home station with no man-days for one year. The limitation to home station is to ensure the person has access to his or her provider if there are complications from treatment or a return of the cancer. After a year, a report on the person s status is required, and the profile is changed again if no further treatment is required. There is no limitation to worldwide duty. This new waiver may be for as long as three years where complete permanent remission is anticipated, she said.
Some cancers have higher incidences of recurrence.
Malignant melanomas fall into this category. Statistics on individual mobilization augmentees are not available. More than 60 of these people stayed in the Reserve family and are still participating, Nell said. Six retired, while five were discharged. Stacy Maskell, 349th Operations Group executive officer at Travis AFB, Calif. , was diagnosed with cancer June 10, 1998.