KEY DATES TO GET ENGAGED
26 August – 31 October 2019: Call for sessions 12 June - 31 October 2019: Call for films 15 October 2019: Registrations open 15 January - 31 March 2020: Call for abstracts
Date: 3rd October 2018 | Time: 15:20 - 16:50 | Venue: Conference Hall 3 – Three finalists were named for the Astellas Oncology C3 Prize in the challenge’s third year to pitch their ideas in hopes of winning the Grand Prize grant of $50,000 USD
According to Dr. Sanjeev Arora “cancer is a disease of health inequity and disparity. The vast majority of patients will not receive best practice care”.
Individuals living with cancer and their care givers have social care needs as well as health needs. Most times, these needs are often inadequately dealt with by health professionals due to lack of specialist skills and capacity to manage these needs emerging needs.
The rapid fire session is not your average research presentation. The sixteen participants had a strict three minute deadline to present their research findings.
“How we can improve the lives of disadvantaged or vulnerable cancer patients “chaired by Laila Rueskov Walther, Danish Cancer Society (Denmark) spoke about the disparity in providing the medical support to indigenous groups.
