ACE Meeting. Jul 14, 2026. 6pm ET, 3pm PT. Patient advocates and nonprofit representatives chat about ways to partner successfully with cancer nonprofits using specific examples. One example is the collaboration between lung cancer advocates and IASLC that created the STARS Program for training lung cancer research advocates.
Janet Freeman-Daily is a writer, speaker, and international cancer research advocate who translates the experience and science of cancer for others. She was diagnosed with metastatic NSCLC in 2011, learned about biomarker testing and clinical trials from online patient communities, joined a clinical trial, and has been doing well on a targeted therapy since 2012. She is co-founder and president of The ROS1ders and a co-founder of the IASLC STARS program for training research advocates in lung cancer. She has received the LUNGevity Hero award, coauthored articles in oncology journals, been an invited speaker at national and international cancer conferences, and served on committees and scientific advisory boards for cancer centers, nonprofits, industry, and government agencies. Formerly an aerospace systems engineer, she holds engineering degrees from MIT (SB) and Caltech (MS, Engineer). Janet blogs at GrayConnections.net.
