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July 12, 2023
Cancer doesn’t know age, so advocate
“Stand up, be assertive, don’t take no for an answer, and keep asking the questions until you get the answer that satisfies the symptoms.”
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March 21, 2022
We Get It: Parenting and advocacy with Heather Brown (season 3, episode 8)
Alex chats with fellow YACCtivist Heather Brown about her role advocating for the cancer community’s resources, sharing her story, and how a cancer diagnosis is brought to light to children from a parent’s perspective.
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January 14, 2015
Self-advocate, anyway
The bits and pieces of fragmented knowledge that I had gained over the years started to come together. My symptoms and conditions all started to make sense. I started seeking out the help I needed and asking more intelligent questions of medical professionals.
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October 03, 2013
Flashback to the beginning
As I came out of my first cancer challenge, I had this desire to be open with a new group of people, specifically about my cancer experience. This desire was really the seed that grew into YACC. I knew that if I was open and shared my story with other young adults, they would respond with compassion and an emotional connection would be formed.
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September 27, 2013
Exciting new opportunity to get involved with YACC!
From our first steps we have been focused on sharing stories to emotionally engage audiences in our mission. It’s time to take it to another level! And we need your help to do it.
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March 30, 2010
Twenty-five survivors
A few weeks back the task force delivered the first ever Canadian Adolescent Young Adult Cancer Workshop and I can point to two very cool and significant milestones from that experience.
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December 21, 2009
Promise of progress: International young adult cancer workshop
I was approached to join the newly created Adolescent Young Adult Task Force, an initiative of the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC),
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February 18, 2008
Young adults with cancer: The forgotten generation
Last week was a great week for young adults with cancer in Canada. Nothing concrete has changed, no new treatment or major shifts in priorities, but the major issues surrounding young adults and cancer have been given some big-time profile.
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September 17, 2006
Cancer in young adults: Report and reaction
As the study proclaims, it is the most comprehensive study ever done in Canada involving young adults and cancer.
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April 01, 2006
The young adult gap
In fact, there are more than twice as many young adults!
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April 18, 2005
Victim, patient, survivor
Victim is a word that I have never liked, and not everyone is a cancer “patient.” Here’s why we call everyone a survivor post-diagnosis.
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