Monthly Measure Archives - GO2 for Lung Cancer

2024 Lung Cancer Voices Summit Recap

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-03-21T10:01:28-05:00March 19th, 2024|Advocacy in Action, Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

GO2 for Lung Cancer’s Voices Summit is the only annual meeting that brings the lung cancer community together for education, training, connection, and advocacy action with our federal government, the largest funder of cancer research.  This month, nearly 200 [...]

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How One Survivor Became an Advocate: Perspectives from a Voices Summit First-Timer

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-03-20T15:11:37-05:00March 19th, 2024|Advocacy in Action, Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Earlier this month, Oakland-based photographer Genevieve joined nearly 200 other lung cancer advocates in Washington, D.C., to share her story with Congressional members and urge support for lung cancer research. We talked to her about her experience as one [...]

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Nicole Phipps Is Spearheading GO2’s Efforts to Confront Lung Cancer Every Day for Everyone

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-02-21T10:04:50-06:00February 21st, 2024|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Nicole Phipps took a job working in lung cancer advocacy almost thirteen years ago to honor her grandfather, a lung cancer survivor. Now she’s applying that passion—and her considerable skills—to ensure that vital lung cancer [...]

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Fern Halper, PhD: Data, AI, and Its Promise for People With Lung Cancer

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-02-21T11:46:15-06:00February 21st, 2024|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Fern Halper, PhD, vice president and senior director of TDWI Research and GO2 board member Fern Halper, PhD has a lifelong passion for data. She has spent more than a decade collecting, managing, and analyzing large amounts [...]

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Meet the Honorees: 18th Annual Simply the Best Gala

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-01-23T14:47:25-06:00January 23rd, 2024|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

For the past 18 years, we have held our Simply the Best Gala with survivors, loved ones, providers, researchers, and industry partners, to celebrate and honor outstanding members of the lung cancer community. “We are grateful to the many [...]

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Adedayo Adeniyi: Making an Impact One Policy at a Time

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2024-01-23T08:41:11-06:00January 23rd, 2024|Advocacy in Action, Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Adedayo Adeniyi was drawn to public health advocacy because he knows how one piece of legislation can change the lives of many.  Adedayo, who has a degree in public health and a master’s in public policy, is GO2 for [...]

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2023 Year in Review

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2023-12-20T10:59:30-06:00December 27th, 2023|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Author: Laurie Fenton Ambrose, GO2 for Lung Cancer CEO, President, and Co-Founder It seems like only yesterday that we raised a toast to 2023, and yet another year is rapidly winding down as we find ourselves preparing for a [...]

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The Power of Advocacy

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2023-12-29T09:02:25-06:00December 27th, 2023|Advocacy in Action, Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles|

Sven de Jong wants elected officials to see the faces of lung cancer. Sven de Jong knows that personalizing lung cancer matters. After his wife Elizabeth was diagnosed with stage 4 (IV) ALK+ non-small [...]

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Find Hope, Help, and a Home

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2023-12-19T10:40:24-06:00December 27th, 2023|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles, Stories of Hope|

Amita Jain supports GO2 for Lung Cancer to help others, too. Shortly after Amita Jain was diagnosed with stage 4 (IV) lung cancer in January 2019, her then-teenage daughter went looking for information and found GO2 for Lung Cancer. [...]

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Heather Law Is Looking to Crack the Code on Lung Cancer

Bethany Johnson (GO2 for Lung Cancer)2023-11-17T09:52:31-06:00November 15th, 2023|Hot Topics, Monthly Measure, Newsletter Articles, Science and Research|

Seeking insights from the causes of lung cancer to support for family caregivers Heather Law, MA, is seeking answers. She wants to understand why some people get lung cancer and others don’t. She’s anxious to learn how treatments change [...]

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