This post will be my last one of 2019 and it marks my twelfth year writing this blog. This blog has opened doors to so many other advocacy activities and I am grateful for those opportunities.
I had some wonderful advocacy opportunities this year.
I continued to blog for Globeathon. My latest post was advice on Holidays Past .
I have become more active as an ASCO member, too. In June, I spoke with Dr Elizabeth Dickson at the ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago on the needs of gynecologic cancer patients (http://womenofteal.blogspot.com/2019/06/asco-reporting.html). And in late September, I traveled with other ASCO members to ask Congress for support of three bills that could impact the lives of people diagnosed with cancer (http://womenofteal.blogspot.com/2019/10/asco-advocacy-summit.html). I also became the patient representive on ASCO's Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee and the Social Media Workgroup.
I continue to serve on the Scientific Review Board at Rutgers Cancer Center of New Jersey and am also a patient advocate on the Community Advisory Council. In September, I presented my story as an ovarian cancer survivor at the Gynecologic Cancer Awareness event at RCINJ as well as to a class of social work students at Rutgers University.
Working with other Twitter Cancer Community leaders and social media experts, I helped author Organizing Online Health Content: Developing Hashtag Collections for Healthier Internet-Based People and Communities
JCO Clinical Informatics https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/CCI.18.00124
I also continued to co-moderate the #gyncsm Community on Twitter chats with Christina Lizaso and covered some really important topics such as Maintenance therapies, PARP inhibitors and the origination of high grade serous ovarian cancer.
I look forward to seeing what 2020 will bring to my advocacy, this blog and the future of ovarian cancer research.
Dee
Every Day is a Blessing!
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