The Lance Armstrong Foundation works with a primary focus on addressing the special issues long-term cancer survivors face. For years, the medical community did not look very closely into the needs and issues of long-term cancer survivors, because the focus was mainly on treating cancer and initially saving lives. Past that, as a cancer survivor, after treatment ended, you were on your own.

LAF has made great advances for raising public awareness about cancer survivorship, and in developing programs specific to the needs of cancer survivors. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has been invited to join the Lance Armstrong Foundation, LAF, in helping to address the needs of the growing number of cancer survivors in the United States through the LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network. With a LAF $1.7 million dollar grant, the center will be able to develop four survivorship initiatives; long-term follow up program for marrow and stem cell transplant patients; the After Cancer Care Ends Survivorship Starts program for childhood cancer survivors; a prostate cancer clinical research program and the Women's Wellness Center for breast and ovarian cancer survivors.

The LIVESTRONG Survivorship Center of Excellence Network is an invitation-only collaborative partnership among the LAF, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers and their community affiliates. This news heralds only good things for the future of cancer survivors. Both oragnizations are respected for the excellence of services they provide on behalf of cancer survivors.