Call to action: SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2019

SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award for best projects in sarcoma patients advocacy Patient advocacy ensures that people are heard, take action and ultimately improve situations, achieve changes or help to fulfil unmet medical needs. We believe it is time to shout out about how important patient advocacy in sarcomas is – for patients, caregivers, healthcare…

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Patient led PROMs must take centre stage in cancer research

by Roger Wilson, co-founder and honorary president of SPAEN and founder of Sarcoma UKResearch Involvement and Engagement, February 2018   Patient involvement in research is about adding value rather than commenting on technical quality. After 15 yearsas an involved patient in cancer research I started looking around and I found I was asking myself, where…

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SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2018: The winners are… (2)

  Patient advocacy ensures that people are heard, take action and ultimately improve situations, achieve changes or help to fulfil unmet medical needs. The projects that were entered for the “Sarcoma Advocacy in Action Award 2018” once again showed this impressively! All entries were fantastic and the jury had a hard job to decide on…

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SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2021

SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award 2021 announced for best projects in sarcoma patients advocacy Patient advocacy ensures that people are heard, take action and ultimately improve situations, achieve changes or help to fulfil unmet medical needs. We believe it is time to shout out about how important patient advocacy in sarcomas is – for patients,…

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Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Adult soft tissue and visceral sarcomas  tumours:(excluding gastrointestinal stromal tumour) are rareOnly 4–5 people out of 100 000 are diagnosed with STS per year in Europe. Overall, men have a slightly higher risk for STS than women and diagnosis occurs more frequently in patients >55 years, with the mean age at diagnosis being 59 years.…

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Statutes

Blindtext Ich bin Blindtext. Von Geburt an. Ein trauriges Leben ist das. Ich kenne weder Erzeuger noch Autor. Irgendwann haben sie mich in die Welt gesetzt, und seitdem werde ich herum gereicht. Meine Eltern bekennen sich nicht einmal zu mir. Ich stehe ganz allein da. Meistens zwischen schillernden neuen Layouts, die dann alle bewundern. Oder…

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Spain: FUNDACIÓN MARI PAZ JIMENEZ CASADO

Contact Information FUNDACIÓN MARI PAZ JIMENEZ CASADOPlaza Valparaiso, nº 4 Escalera Derecha – 5º G 28016 Madrid Email: info@fundacionmaripazjimenez.orgWeb: http://www.fundacionmaripazjimenez.org/ Contact Person Alberto Martinez Gutierrez (Patron and Treasurer)Email: almartinez@fundacionmaripazjimenez.org Organisation profile The FUNDACIÓN MARI PAZ JIMÉNEZ CASADO (FMPJC) is an independent, non-profit organization with financial and functional autonomy, and whose scope of action is the…

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Spain: ASARGA – Associacion Sarcomas of Galicia

Contact Information ASARGA – Associacion Sarcomas of Galicia Email: secretaria@asarga.es Web: https://www.asarga.es/ Tel.: +34900801117 Organisation profile A non-profit association that brings together those affected with any type of Sarcoma in Galicia and throughout Spain. We provide support to the people who suffer from it and their families. Asarga has the following general services: Management of…

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Italy: Italian Desmoid Foundation

Italy: Italian Desmoid Foundation  Back to members Organisation Profile The Associazione Italiana Tumore Desmoide is the first Desmoid Foundation in Italy (ONLUS). It was founded in November 2018 through a chance encounter between Enrica Rossi and Giulia Personeni (both Desmoid patients) in alliance with the medical equipe of Dr. A. Gronchi A. and Dr. P.Casali…

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