ACE Impact Report 2025
Check out our recently released Impact Report for 2025. It captures our rapidly growing impact in a snapshot. (Click here to download a pdf version).
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When Service Becomes Legacy: My Story of Family, Cancer, and Purpose (Wenora Johnson)
ACE member Wenora Johnson recently published a powerful article When Service Becomes Legacy: My Story of Family, Cancer and Purpose. in Cancer Community. “Veterans are trained to ‘tough it out,’ to put mission first and themselves last. Preventive care often takes a back seat. We need stronger outreach in the veteran community to make it…
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A perspective on cancer advocacy from another discipline
“Ending Dementia Stigma could Change its Trajectory: Cancer’s History Shows Why” highlights the impact of cancer advocates from the perspective of the slow progress in the world of dementia research. This article by Saskia Sivananthan recently appeared in The Conversation. “Cancer did not change its stigma entirely because it became curable. It became curable faster…
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The patient and public involvement toolkit (Cancer Research UK)
Cancer Research UK (CRUK) has prepared a toolkit to assist researchers in patient and public involvement (PPI), noting that PPI can improve the quality and relevance of the research, and help articulate its benefits for cancer patients and members of the public.
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Finding Your Lane: How JJ Singleton Turned Survival into Impact and Changed the Face of Cancer Advocacy
Tim McDonald (an advocate himself) conducted this terrific interview with colorectal cancer survivor JJ Singleton. The article originally appeared in Tim’s substack and caught our eye.
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Onward!! (by Jo Lynn Collins)
ONWARD!! Jo Lynn Collins It will be 7 years next month since my diagnosis of Stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer. Median life expectancy is around 3 years, and it never escapes my attention how fortunate I am to have lived beyond those statistics. That being said, the numbers are a bit outdated and don’t accurately…
