Cactus Cancer Society’s mission is to provide a safe space where young adults (ages 18-45) facing cancer can connect, cope, and thrive with one another in an online community through creativity and expression. Our vision is to end isolation among young adults facing cancer.
The RMC Alliance is a non-profit organization that brings together expert clinicians, researchers, and patient advocates, to better understand how and why renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) occurs, and to develop better strategies to screen for, diagnose, and treat this deadly disease.
The goals of the RMC Alliance are:
The mission of the American Cancer Society is to improve the lives of people with cancer and their families through advocacy, research, and patient support, to ensure everyone has an opportunity to prevent, detect, treat, and survive cancer.
The Society’s discovery research leads to breakthroughs in preventing, finding, and treating cancer. Their legislative advocacy work removes barriers to care so people in every community can have an opportunity to access those breakthroughs. Through direct patient support, they connect people in every community with essential programs and support services throughout their cancer journey. Through the Society’s commitment to these areas of focus, they are working to end cancer as we know it, for everyone.
HNCA provides educational, financial, and peer-to-peer support for head and neck cancer patients and caregivers, invests in research in head and neck oncology and educates the public about the disease process, treatment, and prevention of oral, head and neck cancers.
Patient Empowerment Network (PEN) is enthused to partner with Imerman Angels to empower the cancer community through peer-to-peer support. Imerman Angels’ mission is to provide support to cancer fighters, survivors, previvors, and caregivers through one-on-one cancer support. Through a unique matching process, they connect Support Seekers with a custom-selected Mentor Angel whose life experience and cancer story is much the same as theirs. Their mission pairs well with PEN’s mission to provide cancer patients and their care partners with education to boost their confidence and validate emotional feelings around their experiences.
Imerman Angels’ offerings are complimentary to PEN’s Empowerment Lead program where highly passionate empowerment ambassadors represent the eyes and ears around their specific network and develop specific messages, seek out resources, and contribute to amplifying the needs of specific health communities via guidance of an established editorial calendar. Together, with the support of Imerman Angels and education of PEN, our organizations will work together to effectively empower individuals impacted by cancer.
The Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation (AA-MDS) is the world’s leading nonprofit health organization dedicated to supporting patients and families living with aplastic anemia, myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), and related bone marrow failure diseases. The Foundation provides answers, support, and hope to thousands of patients and their families around the world.
Abridge is an organization that produces audio-based solutions that record and summarize medical conversations, anywhere care happens. Their mission is to bring context and understanding to every medical conversation so people can stay on top of their health.
AceCancer‘s mission is to empower all cancer patients to be their own best advocate to improve outcomes. You can manage your cancer journey with AceCancer by tracking key health indicators, logging symptoms, and setting up an assistant to keep your personal community and doctor informed.
Advocates for Community Wellness Inc. is a faith-based organization with a mission of reducing barriers to health equity and increase health literacy for underserved populations by helping to identify risk factors linked to chronic illnesses through the education of healthy lifestyles, fitness and proper nutrition.
Founded and grounded in Milwaukee in 1999, ABCD is an international breast cancer organization that provides free, customized, one-to-one emotional support to empower anyone impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis —patients, family, and friends. Working as a complement to medical care, all of our support services are delivered virtually over the phone or online, making them available anywhere it the world.
Their signature service is creating a unique match between a breast cancer patient and a professionally trained volunteer Mentor/breast cancer survivor or thriver who not only share a similar diagnosis and treatment plan, but also have common interests, similar ages, personal traits, and family dynamics. They support all stages and diagnoses, including metastatic/Stage IV. They currently have 200 active and diverse Mentors located throughout the United States, enabling them to make truly personalized connections.
Founded in 1902, the American Urological Association (AUA) is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community. Our mission is to promote the highest standards of urological clinical care through education, research and the formulation of health care policy.
ASCP Patient Champions educates patients and caregivers about the role of the laboratory in patient care, so they can leverage that knowledge to ensure they are choosing the treatments that work best for them. When patients have more insight into their laboratory and pathology results, they can better participate in their own care. ASCP Patient Champions use that knowledge and insight to advocate for themselves and share what they’ve learned to help others do the same, ultimately creating optimal health care for all.
The Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) is a powerful community of more than 28,000 multidisciplinary practitioners and 2,100 cancer programs and practices nationwide.
Founded in 1974, ACCC brings together healthcare professionals across all disciplines in oncology to promote quality cancer care. It is estimated that 65 percent of the nation’s cancer patients are treated by a member of ACCC.
Members rely on ACCC for education and advocacy support in adapting and responding to complex changes and challenges in the delivery of quality cancer care. ACCC provides resources on operations and management for programs and practices, reimbursement issues, policy and regulatory changes at the state and national levels, trends in cancer care, integrating new technologies and therapies, and more.
