Session: Research advocacy

Speaker: Mary Scroggins

This 90-minute concurrent session will focus on ways that people can participate in and help guide the research process. Mary Scroggins will discuss:

• why consumers should be engaged at all levels of the research process
• ethical concerns and considerations for research and clinical trials
• how advocacy groups and individuals can promote and educate others about research
• different types of opportunities for consumers to participate in research at the local and national level

This session is appropriate for:

• people with a BRCA mutation or hereditary cancer in the family
• family, friends, relatives, and loved ones of people affected by hereditary cancer
• patient advocates, support group facilitators, and people who work with survivors and people
  at high-risk for cancer
• health care providers who care for people and families with hereditary cancer

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