World Cancer Day 2011, Maximized: The Max Foundation submits 13.000 signatures to World Cancer Declaration
A delegation representing the Max Foundation's Maximize Life Movement arrived in Geneva on World Cancer Day (4 Feb 2011) and delivered 13,000 signatures endorsing the World Cancer Declaration to the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). On behalf of 30 patient associations as well as volunteers and committed individuals in 87 countries, the five delegates brought with them the spirit and energy of everyone who embraces the Maximize Life Movement. Read more here
"CML Advocates Network" now connects 59 leukaemia patient groups in 48 countries
ASH 2010 Report: A new era in first line CML treatment coming up?
Like every year, about 30.000 physicians, researchers and industry representatives from all across the world met in the US to discuss groundbreaking news in leukemias and other hematologic diseases. While "the ASH" is designed to be a meeting exclusively for health professionals, about 30 patient advocates representing patients with e.g. CML, myeloma and lymphoma attended to follow, discuss and disseminate the news.
iCMLf-ESH Meeting in Washington DC: A patient's perspective
[Languages: English | Russian]From 24-26 September 2010, the iCMLf-ESH conference on Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) brought together around 400 CML experts from all across the world in Washington DC. Speakers and audience discussed the biological mechanisms of the disease and its treatment, and also about news from clinical trials with 3rd generation therapies.
CML Advocates Network receives "ESO Cancer on Internet Award 2010" at UICC World Cancer Congress
The "CML Advocates Network" has received the "ESO Cancer on Internet Award 2010" at the UICC World Cancer Congress in China on 19 August 2010. The focus of this year's award provided by the European School of Oncology (ESO) is on e-cancer patients. It has the aim to raise awareness of the evolution of the internet and the impact of social media networks in the cancer patient community by recognising organisations and groups that have provided quality-based and easy-to-use communication platforms through the Internet.The prize of 4.000 EUR will be used to extend that social media functionality of the website which is based on free software and is run by volunteers.
8th "New Horizons" 2010: 144 patient advocates from 56 countries met in Vienna, Austria
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