Today, Sunday, June 7, 2026, is the 38th annual National Cancer Survivors Day — observed on the first Sunday of June since 1988 to honor the millions of Americans living beyond a cancer diagnosis.
In New York City, that means celebrating a milestone that would have been hard to imagine for oncologists who entered the profession in the 1970s, when a cancer diagnosis was often viewed as a likely death sentence. Today, the city of 8.3 million people is home to an estimated 500,000 living cancer survivors, people who have completed treatment and are living with, through, or beyond their diagnosis.
