June 7: National Cancer Survivors Day
June 7, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Cancer victim or cancer survivor? Which term do you prefer to use if you’ve had cancer? While I’ve not been touched personally by the disease, I would guess that most would prefer cancer survivor because that’s what you did or are doing – surviving the horrible disease.
Today, June 7, it National Cancer Survivors Day and it’s the 22nd annual Cancer Survivors Day. According to the Cancer Survivors website ,
National Cancer Survivors Day is held annually in hundreds of communities throughout the world on the first Sunday in June. It is a symbolic event to demonstrate that life after a …read more




