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Why Join the Lance Armstrong Foundation? Because It’s the Right Thing to Do.(0)

October 27, 2009

So. Wow. ☺ If you haven’t heard the news, Planet Cancer is now officially a program of the Lance Armstrong Foundation, and we couldn’t be more thrilled, for LOTS of reasons! I’ll go into that in a minute, but first, before we go any further, I’d like to re-post Courtney’s Very Important FAQs: Top Five [...]

White House or Bust

Last week, we got a call at Planet Cancer HQ from producers at ABC News, asking us to submit a question and names of potential attendees for the Prescription for America, a nationally-televised town hall on healthcare reform with President Obama. End result: our question wasn’t picked for the guaranteed Q&A, but we scored four [...]

Candy Stripers or Strippers Named Candy? What do YOU Think a Young Adult Program Needs to Have?

I need your help, guys! Yesterday I attended an all-day meeting sponsored by the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance, whose purpose was to take a first stab at drafting guidelines or standards for institutions wanting to launch Adolescent/Young Adult Oncology programs. It was a great group that included patient advocates, nurses, social workers, oncologists from community [...]

Planet Cancer Roundup (Or “Why I Suck at Blogging”)

Hi, guys– So I am well aware that blogs should be focused on one topic and that they should be updated regularly–weekly or even several times a week. I have EVERY INTENTION of making that happen. But here’s the problem: I can’t just cram in “write a blog” in the middle of all my shit. [...]


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