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Abstract
Five million Americans, or 2 percent of the population, are survivors of cancer. Despite its size, this group remains a "quiet constituency" that has no national organization to focus its common concerns or represent its problems. The author briefly reviews the roles of mutual-help movements and disease lobbies and suggests a strategy for a step-wise movement toward a national organization for cancer survivors that might be called The Cancer Consort.