What It’s Like Being a Childhood Cancer Survivor
Advocate Angela Lee shares her advocacy story and 3 things to consider if you’re a long-term survivor.
Advocate Angela Lee shares her advocacy story and 3 things to consider if you’re a long-term survivor.
Did you know that young adults especially struggle with the financial burdens of cancer care? Samantha Watson and Michelle Landwehr of The Samfund write about the challenges young adults face and what they can do about it.
Patient advocate Dusty Donaldson reports from the 2016 Cancer Survivorship Symposium and discusses the growing support for survivorship care plans for all people with cancer.
In this podcast, experts discuss ASCO’s recent endorsement of ASTRO’s guideline for radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer.
For patient advocate Carole Seigel, quality care and palliative care are intertwined. In this guest post, she talks about what she took away from the Quality Care Symposium and Palliative Care in Oncology Symposium.
What would it be like to meet the inventor of the investigational drug that is keeping you alive? Janet Freeman-Daily found out firsthand at the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting.
Prostate cancer patient advocate Alvin Chin describes how his experiences in Chicago satisfied his “sweet tooth” for relevant and important cancer information.
Kidney cancer patient advocate Berit Eberhardt describes why she traveled more than 5,000 miles to attend the 2014 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium.
Cancer research patient advocate Kay Kays reflects on her experiences at the 2014 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium.
An advocate is someone who supports or defends a cause. In the cancer community, an advocate supports a cause or policy regarding cancer. Cancer advocates can work on a local or national level, providing support to those living with cancer, raising public awareness of the disease, advancing cancer research, improving the quality of cancer care, or addressing legislative and regulatory issues that affect cancer care and research.