Kathi Apostolidis: Can cancer patient advocates make their voice heard

Kathi Apostolidis shared a post on LinkedIn:

”Can cancer patient advocates make their voice heard? Yes they can.

European Cancer Patient Advocates, academics, policy makers, cancer community members, who were invited speakers and attendees at the well known yearly Brussels cancer conference of the Economist Impact obliged the organizers to cancel the event, after it was found out that the organizers were not only sponsored by the tobacco industry but also were publishing controversial content.

The Guardian has the story.

Both tobacco and vaping are harmful for health. Their practices particularly aiming to attract young people into smoking or vaping are equally harmful and are not acceptable.”

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Source: Kathi Apostolidis/LinkedIn

Kathi Apostolidis is the President of the European Cancer Patient Coalition and Hellenic Cancer Federation. She was also the Chair Cancer Patients Rights Advocacy Program at Society of Volunteers against Cancer.