Diane Zipursky Quale (President, Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network, BCAN) sits down with Selma Schimmel and Advocacy in Action at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum to discuss the challenges advocates and advocacy groups face in the community setting. The Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum was held in Washington D.C. on October 24, 2012 [...]

  Vital Options International and TheGroupRoom.tv — presents an Advocates in Action blog post! Our friends at the National Bone Marrow Transplant Link present Voices of Hope and Healing with NEW Online Audio! It makes a difference to patients and their families to hear firsthand how transplants have affected the lives of others and how [...]

Regina Vidaver, PhD (Executive Director, National Lung Cancer Partnership) and Joan Schiller, MD, PhD (President, National Lung Cancer Partnership) talk about the mission of the organization and the role it is playing in educating patients about tissue collection and biomarker testing.  For more information visit:  National Lung Cancer Partnership Advocacy in Action at the 2012 [...]

Scott Santarella President and CEO of The Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation discusses the work of the foundation as well as their subsidiary organization, Jill’s Legacy. Advocacy in Action at the 2012 Multidisciplinary Symposium in Thoracic Oncology was made possible, in part, by: VIDEO TRANSCRIPT Selma Schimmel, Founder & CEO, Vital Options International This [...]

Dr. Krug discusses his work as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation.  (www.curemeso.org) Lee M. Krug, MD is the Director of the Mesothelioma Program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Chair of the Advisory Board for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. Advocacy in Action at the 2012 Multidisciplinary Symposium [...]

Dr. Silvia Novello discusses her advocacy work with WALCE — Women Against Lung Cancer in Europe. Silvia Novello, MD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the thoracic oncology unit at San Luigi Hospital in Orbassano, Italy, part of the University of Turin. Her research interests include thoracic malignancies, gender differences in lung cancer, development of [...]

Linda House, Executive Vice-President of External Affairs at The Cancer Support Community  sits down with The Group Room to share the history and the programs of the organization. The Cancer Support Community is an international non-profit dedicated to providing support, education and hope to people affected by cancer. Likely the largest employer of psychosocial oncology [...]

Susan Earl Hosbach, Executive Director of The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation sits down with Advocacy in Action at ASCO to share the mission, services and goals of the organization. The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation envisions a world in which all adults affected by cancer have access to the resources for support, up-to-date information, and clinical [...]

Advocacy in Action sat down with Ginny Mason to learn more about the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation and the work they do to help those with inflammatory breast cancer through both education and research. Advocacy in Action videos at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012 was made possible, in part, [...]

Advocacy in Action sat down with Mary Lou Smith and Elda Railey to learn more about the Research Advocacy Network and the important work they do in training the research advocates of tomorrow. Advocacy in Action videos at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2012 was made possible, in part, by: VIDEO [...]