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ABCF Advocate Program
December 5 - December 10, 2011
San Antonio, Texas
The Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation provides scholarships
for eligible advocates to attend the annual San Antonio
Breast Cancer Symposium. The Symposium is an international
event in which approximately 9,000 researchers, oncologists,
and others in the scientific field learn about and discuss
the current and cutting edge breast cancer research.
Background
In 1997 the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium directors, Charles A. Coltman Jr. M.D. and C. Ken Osborne, M.D., requested that the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation
develop, organize and facilitate an advocate program in conjunction with the annual symposium. The directors saw the need for an advocate program because of the
increasing Symposium attendance of advocates and the absence of specific planned activities to acknowledge their presence and their interest in breast cancer
research. With the Symposium directors' encouragement and support, the first Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation Advocate Program was held in December 1998 in
association with the 20th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Purpose
The Alamo Breast Cancer Patient Advocate Program is designed
to increase the dissemination of the latest breast cancer
research findings from the Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer
Symposium. Breast cancer advocates from the United States,
Canada and worldwide are funded through the program to attend
the Annual Symposium. Each funded advocate is assigned and
expected to attend all Symposium sessions, talks, and poster
sessions relevant to a particular assigned topic and to
prepare a written "Hot Topic" report summarizing information
on the topic. "Hot Topic" reports are due one month after
the Symposium. After they are received, the reports are
reviewed for accuracy by a team of experts, necessary revisions
are made, and the information is translated into lay terminology.
Then the "Hot Topic" reports are compiled in a CD-ROM which
serves as a complete record of Symposium highlights and
thus a vehicle for the participating advocates to share
all current breast cancer research information reported
at the Symposium with their various constituencies and with
advocacy groups worldwide. Also available on our homepage will be blogs, YouTube, Interviews and more. Please check daily for updates.
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