Annabelle Gurwitch: ASCO Patient Award this year goes to the amazing Jill Feldman

Annabelle Gurwitch recently shared a post on X:

“Holding each other close.  The ASCO Patient Award this year goes to the amazing Jill. This year was lung cancer year at ASCO24, so many breakthroughs including Laura trial. And, reconnecting IRL with friends and community.”

Source: Annabelle Gurwitch/X

Annabelle Gurtwitch is a New York Times bestselling author, actress, and activist whose most recent collection of essays “You’re Leaving When? Adventures in Downward Mobility” is a 2021 New York Times Favorite Book for Healthy Living, a Good Morning America Must Read and a finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing 2022. She co-hosts the podcast, “Tiny Victories,” dedicated to appreciating small mercies and minor triumphs on the Maximum Fun Podcast Network.

Jill Feldman is a lung cancer patient and advocate. She is the Co-Founder of EGFR Resisters, an advocacy group of EGFR-positive lung cancer patients who are resistant to targeted treatment. She is the Past President of the LUNGevity Foundation, Deputy Chair of IASLC’s patient advisory board, and a member of The Chicago Institute of Translational Medicine’s patient advisory board.