Nearly 100 oncology care providers from across the United States traveled to Capitol Hill on September 27 and 28 to participate in the second annual ASCO Advocacy Summit. Advocates met with Members of Congress and their staff to educate them on critical issues affecting patients with cancer and their providers, and to encourage policymakers to support cancer policy priorities that will ensure patients with cancer have access to high-quality, high-value care.
ASCO volunteer advocates were at the nation's capitol to focus on three major policy issues during their conversations with congressional offices:
This year’s Advocacy Summit also featured remarks by members of Congress, the presentation of a “Congressional Leadership Award” to Representative Leonard Lance (NJ-7), as a policymaker who champions cancer-related policies, and a keynote speech from Eugene Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist with The Washington Post and a political analyst with MSNBC.
Watch for further details of the summit at ASCO in Action and in upcoming issues of The ASCO Post.The content in this post has not been reviewed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, Inc. (ASCO®) and does not necessarily reflect the ideas and opinions of ASCO®.