Tom Kean, MPH (President & CEO, C-Change) and Linda House, RN, BSN, MSM (Executive VP, The Cancer Support Community) give a presentation at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum on palliative care and hospice care and how we can help facilitate quality at every stage in the community cancer care setting. The Community Cancer [...]

Linda House, RN, BSN, MSM (Executive Vice-President, External Affairs, The Cancer Support Community) sits down with Selma Schimmel and The Group Room at the Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum to the changing face of palliative care and hospice care as it relates to the community cancer setting. The Community Cancer Care Advocacy Day Forum [...]

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 [...]

Vital Options International presents Advocacy in Action, bringing together the influential leaders of the cancer advocacy community to address Public Policy Advocacy For Cancer. Public policies may encourage or prohibit further advancements or access to the latest care and treatments. Although cancer survivors are more likely to return to their jobs and families, they are [...]

In this Advocacy in Action episode, Linda House (Executive Vice-President of External Affairs, Cancer Support Community) talks about the three pillars of focus for the Cancer Support Community. To view all of the videos in this series, click here. Public policies may encourage or prohibit further advancements or access to the latest care and treatments. [...]

This Advocacy in Action episode talks about helping patients to find their power and voice in advocating public policy issues.  What are the psychosocial barriers that need to be overcome? To view all of the videos in this series, click here. Public policies may encourage or prohibit further advancements or access to the latest care [...]

This Advocacy in Action episode discusses how organizations work to create more support for cancer public policy initiatives. To view all of the videos in this series, click here. Public policies may encourage or prohibit further advancements or access to the latest care and treatments. Although cancer survivors are more likely to return to their [...]

This discussion is led by Diane Blum (CEO Lymphoma Research Foundation), Prof. David Kerr (President of ESMO), Regina Vidaver (Exec. Dir. of the Nat’l Lung Cancer Partnership) and Selma Schimmel (Founder & CEO Vital Options International. Featuring Cancer Advocates: Linda House (St. Vincent Indianapolis and Y-Me National Breast Cancer Foundation), Jennifer Viano (Cutaneous Lymphoma Foundation) [...]