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advocacy
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8 records
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Andrea Seale Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Cancer Society · Canadian Cancer Society Chief executive of the Canadian Cancer Society, the national charity that funds cancer research, advocates on policy and runs support services across Canada. | none | none | leadership, charity | ||
Cary Adams Chief Executive Officer, Union for International Cancer Control (since 2009) · Union for International Cancer Control Long-serving chief executive of the Union for International Cancer Control, the world's largest international cancer membership organisation. | none | none | leadership, global-health | ||
Elisabetta Zanon Chief Executive Officer · European Cancer Organisation Chief Executive Officer of the European Cancer Organisation, coordinating Europe's oncology community on cancer policy. | none | none | leadership, cancer policy | ||
Ellen L. Stovall Cancer survivor and advocate; chief executive of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship from 1992 to 2008 Led the survivorship movement's organisation for sixteen years and co-edited the Institute of Medicine report that defined what survivorship care is. | none | none | survivorship, history | ||
Fitzhugh Mullan Physician and writer; founding president of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Wrote the 1985 essay that gave cancer survivorship its name and its first framework, then co-founded the organisation that changed what people treated for cancer are called. | none | none | survivorship, history | ||
Jacinta Reddan Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Council Australia · Cancer Council Australia Chief executive of Cancer Council Australia, the national body of Australia's state and territory cancer councils, which leads cancer control advocacy and research funding. | none | none | leadership, charity | ||
Nikki Gallagher Chief Executive Officer of the Irish Cancer Society · Irish Cancer Society Advocacy and governance leader who is Chief Executive of the Irish Cancer Society, Ireland's national cancer charity. | none | none | leadership, charity | ||
The founding of the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, and the word survivor Twenty-three people met in Albuquerque in October 1986 and set out to replace the phrase "cancer victim" with "cancer survivor". The definition they chose, a survivor from the day of diagnosis for the rest of life, is the one the National Cancer Institute uses today. | none | none | rejuvenation, survivorship, history |
