Models for Participation
Consumer and advocacy organizations are essential participants in our common mission to uncover the causes, improve treatment, enable prevention, and ultimately, reduce the burden of cancer.
The fastest way to participate is by planning and implementing a project that provides a useful service for your members, while giving them the opportunity to contribute their information into an online data resource if they choose to do so.
What are some of the potential benefits for your organization?
- Offer your constituents user-friendly tools to manage their health, track their treatment plans, join communities, and inform their decision-making
- Help to transform research into a more patient-centric process
- Accelerate research discoveries and ensure that new knowledge is driven rapidly into the clinic to improve patient outcomes
- Link people online to research cohorts and/or clinical research studies
- Gain access to new resources
- Be visible nationally by playing a pioneering role in a ground-breaking initiative
There are a variety of models for such projects:
