By Advocacy Action-Participating as a Research Advocate Here's how to represent patients in the research process I remember my first experience as a cooperative group research advocate five years ago. I had been asked to serve on what’s k...
By Advocacy Action-Being a Better Patient Advocate Here's how to represent patients and improve their care On May 17, 1995, I underwent a radical prostatectomy to remove my prostate gland at Long Island College Hospital in New York City. Th...
By Ruth I. Hoffman Advocacy Action—Raising Money for Childhood Cancer Research By Ruth I. Hoffman Cancer is the leading cause of death by disease for children under 19 in the United States. While improvements have been made in the five-ye...
By Advocacy Action—Volunteering as a Telephone Counselor Here are some steps for becoming a hotline volunteer “Am I going to die?” “My wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer. What do we do?” “How can I make decisions about m...
By Advocacy Action—Volunteering as a Telephone Counselor Here are some steps for becoming a hotline volunteer “Am I going to die?” “My wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer. What do we do?” “How can I make decisions about m...
By Courtney Bugler Advocacy Action — Building a successful collaboration By Courtney Bugler Diagnosed with breast cancer one month after turning 29, I was not immediately drawn to advocacy work. I was nearly a year out of treatment in 200...
By Advocacy Action — Reaching Out to Minority Men Cancer is often called the great equalizer. In some respects, this rings true. Cancer reaches all ages, races, both genders, and across the socioeconomic spectrum. There are, however, some...
By Liz Margolies Advocacy Action—Raising Awareness About Cancer in the LGBT Community By Liz Margolies My organization, the National LGBT Cancer Network, estimates that there are 1 million lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) can...
