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How can a cancer survivor make the transition from simply going on with life… to eagerly anticipating tomorrow?! By finding new meaning in their life through work they love.
Good Health for Life helps get cancer survivors back to work to improve the length and quality of their survival. We do this through an assortment of cutting edge survivorship programs — an entrepreneurship center, lifestyle transition workshops, economic research, education and advocacy operations. At Good Health for Life, our mission is to offer support programs and love to cancer-stricken families by helping survivors find their passion for living through work. Until every person diagnosed with cancer can be healed, Good Health for Life will be here to help make each cancer survivor’s life a success story. We are dedicated to efforts that oppose the marginalization of cancer survivors from the workplace and deem it unacceptable that businesses should squander the more than 10 million American cancer survivors and those that will be diagnosed in the coming years. Cancer will affect one in three Americans during their lifetimes. While medical care is essential for cancer survivors, often it is just as important for these people to maintain as normal a life as possible to speed recovery and maintain a positive quality of life. But once people are treated and living longer, where is the investment in getting them back to work by overcoming personal, financial and institutional biases? Where are the advocates educating business on the value of working with these exceptional people? Good Health for Life was created to help cancer survivors get back to work. Advances achieved in the last part of the 20th century in the way cancer is diagnosed and treated have led to more people being cured of or living long periods of time free of their disease. Good Health for Life is committed to providing the most current information about and the best methods to support and integrate this growing population of cancer survivors in the workplace. The dawning of a new millennium brings us rich opportunities not only to bring greater awareness to the unique needs of survivors in the workplace, but also to use the personal and collective experiences of these survivors to inform business of the efforts to reduce the burden of cancer for all. We appreciate you visiting our website and hope that you will come away with new knowledge and perhaps be inspired to add your own contribution to advancing the mission of Good Health for Life to get cancer survivors back to work. |
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“Our lives belong to the community, and it is our privilege to do for it whatever we can as long as we shall live. For we want to be thoroughly used up by the time we die, and the harder we work, the more we live. Life is no brief candle, but a splendid torch which we have hold of but one moment in time, and we want to make it burn as bright as possible before handing it to future generations.” …Golda Meir |
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LAST CALL to Share Your Story with us and let others learn from your experience in our upcoming book, Unintended Consequences. When you were diagnosed with cancer, how did you tell your children, spouse, family, friends and employers—the people who mattered in your life? What were the results? What advice would you give others facing the same circumstances? |
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In Memoriam Leslie T. Phan |