Michael Sapienza: Honoring Amy Low’s Legacy and Calling for a Cure
Michael Sapienza, Chief Executive Officer of the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Amy Low was many things to me – a Colorectal Cancer Alliance board member, a colleague in the mission to end the disease, a leader, and most of all, a friend.
Amy lived with Stage IV colorectal cancer for seven extraordinary years. Through every treatment, every clinical trial, and every turn of uncertainty, she showed us all how to live with courage, truth, and grace.
What made Amy extraordinary was her ability to hold both the awful and the awesome in the same breath. She wrote a beautiful book, The Brave In-Between: Notes from the Last Room – a must-read for anyone grappling with what it means to live fully, even in the shadow of mortality.
Before her passing in November, Amy recorded an interview for the Emerson Collective podcast Almost There, reflecting on the wisdom she gathered in what she called ‘the last room.’ It’s classic Amy – insightful, funny, honest, and deeply human.
Listening to her voice again reminds me not only of what we lost but of everything she gave us. It also reminds me of the importance of our mission to end this disease. We need to do more for every patient like Amy. We need more colorectal cancer funding, more research, more treatments – we need a cure – and we need it now.
I hope you’ll take a moment to listen and learn from her, as I continue to do.
And I hope you will consider supporting the Alliance in our mission to end this disease through Project Cure CRC.”
More posts featuring Michael Sapienza.
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ASCO Annual Meeting
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Yvonne Award 2024
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OncoThon 2024, Online
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Global Summit on War & Cancer 2023, Online
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