Health | Mesothelioma | Cancer

Okay, I am very new at this but do want to attempt to make a difference in legislation addressing funding for cancer research. I found this WONDERFUL link on the American Association for Cancer Research’s web site:

For the past several days I’ve been posting what I learned at the recent Frontiers in Cancer Prevention conference, I learned so much there. I am very grateful for the opportunities the American Association for Cancer Research has given me via the Scientist-Survivor Program.

I was once again privileged to be invited to an American Association for Cancer Research conference as part of their SurvivorScientist Program. This conference, Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research took place in Washington DC in November. At the AACR conferences, those of us who are survivors and advocates are able to access the great minds [...]

I am deeply grateful to CR Magazine, a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, for an article just released in their 2009 fall edition, Fairest of All, about Audrey Hepburn’s struggle with appendiceal cancer. Audrey Hepburn lost her battle with the disease in 1993.

In April of this year I attended the 100th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research as part of their Scientist-Survivor Program. My involvement in the Scientist-Survivor Program has impacted me in several ways. I have come to truly appreciate the scientists who have dedicated their lives to ending cancer’s destruction in our [...]

.I am in Denver now ready for the beginning of the AACR’s Centennial Annual Meeting tomorrow. There will be 17,000 people participating in the conference from 60 different countries with over 500 significant new discoveries in cancer research being presentedI am tonight trying to decide which of those 500 presentations I most want to attend, [...]

I think the greatest thing about Stand Up To Cancer, besides the money it raised for research, was that it helped us all to be aware of the need to support cancer research funding. I think the public response to Stand Up To Cancer (countless celebrities were involved and at least 10 million viewers participated) [...]

I have always been in love with words. I’m a word junkie. And lately I have a new favorite word: Collaboration. I’ve had to learn to spell it…I still want to put and “e” where the second “o” goes.

I spent today with the other advocates involved in the AACR’s Scientist-Survivor Program. The survivors and advocates, about 30 of us altogether, are from all over the US and the world. There are Scientist-Survivor Advocates in the program from Jordan, Zimbabwe, Poland, Sweden and Canada along with advocates from all over the USA. All of [...]

The survival rate of individuals diagnosed with mesothelioma cancer remains low. Each year more than 2,000 new cases are diagnosed in the United States. Even though people have had mesothelioma since the turn of the century, the survival rate for patients has only been studied for the past twenty years. The fundamental problem with estimating [...]