FEATURED IN JANUARY 2024

We're excited about our plans for 2024 and we wanted to give you a sneak peek at what's to come.  Keep an eye out for our newsletters and emails for more details as they become available.

• New website (around May/June)
• New logo (debuts with website)
• 2nd annual in-person Head & Neck Cancer Symposium 
• Awareness Month (more on this below)
• Continued webinars throughout the year
• Expanded and updated Ambassador program
• Expanded and updated resources for caregivers

REGISTER NOW TO HOST A FREE HNC SCREENING

For more than two decades, HNCA has worked with partners around the world to raise awareness and save lives by hosting community health screenings to promote early detection.

We make it easy for your organization to participate by providing the promotional and educational materials free of charge, and you organize the staff and volunteers.

2ND ANNUAL MOVE-A-THON

Registration for our Move-A-Thon event will open soon.  We encourage you to think about how you want to "move" with us (you decide - it could be running, walking, playing with your kids - whatever you want and feel capable of doing).

Consider if you want to start your team, join an existing team, or help us raise funds and awareness on your own.

Details are coming soon!

JANUARY WEBINAR

Parenting Through A Head & Neck Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and into Survivorship
January 22, 2024
7:00-8:00 pm ET

Parenting through a cancer journey impacts the whole family and can profoundly affect children. Parenting Through A Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment and into Survivorship webinar will provide guidance on how to have simple and open communication with children.  

You will learn from a Child Life Specialist and three parents on how to maintain a sense of connection and provide opportunities for sharing and self-expression to help your child throughout this experience. Children are resilient and can learn to cope with challenging situations when provided with individualized support. 

MEET OUR AMBASSADORS:
STEPHAN CASSIDY
Veteran and Survivor of Stage IV Tongue Cancer; Lutz, FL

In the Spring of 2016, Stephan, age 53, was diagnosed with Stage IV tongue cancer, which had spread locally to two lymph nodes on one side of his neck. It took several months to diagnose his original cancer. The only warning sign Stephan had was a persistent, though intermittent, sore throat.

He underwent seven weeks of daily radiation, with several cycles of chemotherapy. Three months later, a PET scan indicated he was cancer free.

About a year after his original diagnosis, Stephan was playing golf and felt a minor twinge in his back. Stephan expressed his concerns to his doctor that something again didn’t feel right, just like the original throat cancer didn’t feel right. He shared that he thought it might be cancer.

The next night, he underwent the scan and received a call the following morning with the news that he had a ‘destructive soft tissue mass’ on his rib, lung, and liver.

Read the rest of Stephan's story by clicking the link below...

Smash Cancer, a long-running tennis tournament benefiting the Alliance, recently received two prestigious awards from the United States Tennis Association: North Carolina Tournament of the Year and the Southern Section Adult Tournament of the Year.

In 14 years, the tournament has raised over $100,000 for the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance, every penny of which has been used directly for patient needs.