Media Advisory: Cancer Survivor of the Year Honored
Nancy Weaver Emerson, a patient of the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center who has been battling breast cancer for the last 19 years, has been selected as the "Cancer Survivor of the Year" by Coping magazine. The honor will be presented to her by Richard Holt, managing editor of Coping, at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, near Clinic 1D in Duke South. The media is welcome to attend.
The magazine's editors select the person who best represents the spirit of the international cancer community annually as its award recipient. Emerson will be featured in an article in the January/February 2002 issue of Coping, which serves people whose lives have been touched by cancer.
Emerson, 60, of Graham, also is director of major projects and assistant director of development and communications at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center. Additionally, she was one of the first volunteers in the Duke Cancer Patient Support program and later served on the program's advisory board. She also has served on the executive committee of the National Patient Advocate Foundation, a policy organization committed to ensure patients' access to care and reimbursement, and has appeared before Congress to increase funding for cancer research.
In April 1997, the Nancy Weaver Emerson Endowment was established at the Duke University Medical Center to honor her and provide lectures in medical ethics.