Patient Advocates
Patient Advocates address issues affecting people with cancer, including the advancement of cancer research, legislative and regulatory matters, improving the quality of cancer care, raising public awareness, and providing support to patients with cancer. Whether patient advocates operate from an individual or organizational level, locally or nationally, the Conquer Cancer Foundation supports their efforts and offers opportunities and resources to promote all types of cancer advocacy. We are committed to giving patient advocates access to cutting-edge cancer information.
Through our Patient Advocate Scholarship Program, patient advocates are awarded scholarships to attend the ASCO Annual Meeting and ASCO Symposia, where they will:
Learn about the very latest advances in cancer research.
Develop skills in understanding and communicating research and information on issues such as cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
Engage in networking and collaborative efforts with fellow patient advocates and cancer advocacy organizations.
ASCO and Conquer Cancer Foundation employees were excited to support two Patient Advocate Scholarships for the 2011 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium held January 20-22, 2011 in San Francisco, California. This multidisciplinary symposium is designed to educate and update doctors and other health-care professionals on the latest research findings related to gastrointestinal cancers, including cancer of the esophagus, stomach, hepatobiliary tract (liver, bile duct, and gallbladder), pancreas, small bowel, colon, and rectum.
Yoshiyuki Majima and Pamela McAllister, PhD applied and were selected to be the recipients of these staff-funded patient advocate scholarships. Learn more about these recipients and their experience at the symposium.
We encourage you to learn more about our Patient Advocate Scholarship Program as well as additional cancer advocacy programs that ASCO offers for advocates by visiting Advocacy and Policy on ASCO’s patient website, Cancer.Net. If you would like to sponsor a patient advocate to attend an ASCO meeting, please contact us at info@conquercancerfoundation.org.