It’s easy to say you are patient centred – until you are asked to spell out what that means in terms of your processes and practice. Last summer 11 patient groups invited nine pharmaceutical companies [more]
“A room full of healers.” This is how Larry Norton, Medical Director of the Evelyn H. Lauder Breast Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering, described the feel of the auditorium during the 4th Advanced Breast Cancer [more]
Patient advocates believe their input into guiding the research process is key to ensuring the right questions are investigated in the right way. Where its been successfully tried, both sides agree there is no going [more]
How do you decide which new cancer drugs to approve, when statistical certainty takes too long to wait for and essential evidence on quality of life is hard to measure? The head of the cancer [more]
Little by little, patient advocates are winning their battle to be involved in decisions that affect them. They are now focusing on how to use their new-found voice to deliver real change for the people [more]