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Member Profile: Instituto Oncoguia
Jul 19, 2021
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The Insituto Oncoguia team participating in World Cancer Day outreach in 2019. Luciana Holtz de Camargo Barros is the President and Founder of Oncoguia, a cancer patient advocacy organization in São Paulo, Brazil. Holtz worked as a psycho-oncologist until 2010. During this time, she often became frustrated when her patients would come to her after […]
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Member Profile: European Cancer Patient Coalition
Jun 16, 2021
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The many faces of the ECPC team. The European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC) is the voice of cancer patients in Europe. With over 450 members, it’s Europe’s largest umbrella cancer patients’ association, covering all 27 European Union Member States and many other European and non-European countries. ECPC represents patients affected by all types of cancers, […]
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Member Profile: PASYKAF
May 13, 2021
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PASYKAF staff group photo. PASYKAF, The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends was founded in 1986, by 21 people with cancer experience. The voice of our association was first heard through the words of Dr Anna Achilleoudi, founder and president of the board who stated in public: “I am a breast cancer survivor, cancer […]
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Member Profile: Michael W. Oglesby Foundation
Apr 19, 2021
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Participants in Michael W. Oglesby Foundation’s annual Faj Squad 5k walk/run that has raised over $40,000 for pancreatic cancer research in the last 5 years. When and why was your organization founded? Our brother, Mike, was born and raised in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Wahlert Catholic High School and the University of Iowa with […]
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Member Profile: EuropaColon Portugal
Mar 12, 2021
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EuropaColon Portugal was created in 2006 in Porto with the primary function to help reduce the number of deaths from intestinal cancer and to provide support to patients and family members and improve their quality of life. Objectives of the Association: Promote the screening and early diagnosis of traceable digestive cancers Advise and support the […]
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Member Profile: RicerChiAmo Onlus
Feb 19, 2021
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One of the founders of RicerChiAmo Onlus, Gian Luca Baiocchi, speaking at their annual Fun for Charity event in 2019. RicerChiAmo Onlus is based in Brescia, Italy, and was founded in 2016 by Gian Luca Baiocchi (ASST Spedali Civili di Bescia and Univ. of Brescia), Lidia Beltrami, and Paola Masserdotti. RicerChiAmo Onlus was founded on […]
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Member Profile: PanKind
Jan 13, 2021
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PanKind unites the nation with their flagship Put Your Foot Down walks in 7 cities across Australia Avner Nahmani and his wife Caroline established the Foundation in 2007 after Avner was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. Caroline, their close friends, and a group of passionate volunteers set about to reach an almost impossible dream of […]
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Member Profile: The Gastrointestinal Society
Dec 21, 2020
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The Gastrointestinal Society is a Canadian registered charity that has roots in its partner organization, the Canadian Society of Intestinal Research (CSIR), founded in 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Our organizations work together providing patient information on a variety of topics from gum to bum at www.badgut.org. Gail Attara has been in the chief […]
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Member Profile: Inspire2Live
Dec 16, 2019
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Inspire2Live (I2L), located in the Netherlands, is an international movement founded in 2011 by the people who also started charity events like Alpe d’HuZes, currently Holland’s biggest charity action. All these charities are targeted toward one single goal: getting cancer under control. To achieve this, the organization also strives to change and improve the way […]
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Member Profile: #PurpleOurWorld
Nov 6, 2019
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#PurpleOurWorld was founded in October 2014, just weeks before the first World Pancreatic Cancer Day (WPCD). It was founded in honor of wife, mother and sister Rochelle Goulburn, who passed away from pancreatic cancer in August 2014 after 16 months of treatment. When Goulburn was diagnosed, her family found there was little awareness of the […]
