Why Patient Advocacy in Oncology Matters

Our thanks to Joy for sharing her perspectives and years of experience on the importance of patient advocacy.

Joy Freedman is an experienced and active patient advocate participating on numerous advisory boards, as a speaker at national and global conferences, traveling to Washington, DC to lobby Congress on behalf of colorectal cancer patients, and co-chair of the rectal cancer survivor group at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Also, Joy is a certified Patient Navigator and shares her perspectives and advocacy work with the next generation of healthcare professionals by speaking with medical and oncology fellows at Johns Hopkins Medical Center.