Our special guests today is Geoff Eaton, the Director of Young Adult Cancer Canada (YACC).
In this episode:
We talk about Geoff’s experience as a young person diagnosed with cancer, how this shaped his leadership and community work, activities and support provided by YACC to young adults diagnosed with cancer in Canada, and more.
Additionally, at the end Sevtap gives brief info about young adult cancers in Canada – what are they? How many folks are affected? What are the main priorities in addressing young adult cancers?
Take a look and hope you will enjoy this episode as much as Geoff and Sevtap have.
Kayla Crichton and Sevtap Savas, PhD talked to two young MUN students who are co-chairing the Relay For Life 2024 event for Memorial University of Newfoundland: Emma McIsaac and Sophia Ryan
Relay for Life is organized by Canadian Cancer Society to raise funds and awareness about cancer.
These two young leaders have given us a future vision without cancer, & hope with their enormous motivation and interest to help others going through cancer, and their leadership.
We also share information about Canadian Cancer Society’s importance and contributions to cancer research funding and support provided to cancer patients and families.
On behalf of the entire Public Interest Group on Cancer Research, Thank you Kayla, Thank you Emma, and Thank you Sophia.
FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Episode 4 – “There is a future where we do not have to worry about cancer”: Vision by two young leaders – Sophia Ryan and Emma McIsaac
Honoured to receive this award together with other 8 awesome folks from Atlantic Canada!
Amazingly, one of these awesome winners is another Turkish immigrant woman Burcu Kaptan from Nova Scotia – congrats Burcu so well deserved and very proud of your accomplishments!
Thanks My east Coast Experience Media for awarding me this award – I had great time during our award gala on Friday Feb. 2nd, Halifax!
Thanks my family, friends, community, mentors, students, assistants, collaborators, and community partners for making my scholarly & community work possible.
I am hugely humbled – While this is not the first award/recognition I have received, it is the most meaningful.
There is a very strange pride coming from being recognized as an immigrant – it is an amazing feeling.
The fact that this award recognizes social responsibility, leadership, and contributions to the community is huge.
I am now more motivated than ever to advocate, engage with community, reach out to population, and do meaningful research on cancer.
Thank you Newfoundland and Labrador for adopting me and making me one of yours – I love it here and I love you all!
Community makes everything so much better. I could not be where I am now personally and professionally without you.
THANK YOU!
I will continue to support and contribute to Newfoundland and Labrador with my scholarly and community work as well as advocacy on cancer. Yes b’y!
Thank you Dr. Teri Stuckless for nominating me and thank you John King and Dr. Kara Laing for supporting my nomination!
I made a presentation as part of the Marathon of Hope National Cancer Centers Network speaker series last week.
You can listen to my talk here: between 30 – 51 min of the recording.
It is a nice summary of the work and expertise I have and how I would like to contribute them to the Atlantic Cancer Consortium (ACC) and national Marathon of Hope Cancer Centres Network (MoH CCN).
Happy to particularly demonstrate how my research, public engagement and outreach, leadership and advocacy activities all work towards one goal – to improve the conditions and wellness of the cancer patients and families. This is a true and a very strong goal of mine.
ACC is a large cancer research project/team focusing on Precision Medicine in cancer. We are very excited to be a part of this initiative supported by the Terry Fox Research Institute, federal government and many local and provincial funders and organizations.
I believe over time this project will bring relief to many cancer patients by creating new knowledge and personalized treatment options. Through our public engagement activities, we will also interact, engage, and work with our public members in and out of Atlantic Canada to exchange, disseminate, and create new ideas and scientific knowledge that matter most to them.
