Patients’ Bill of Rights for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients
May 08, 2008
May 08, 2008- According to Dr. Leonard Sender, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County, California and at the University of California, Irvine, recent data of the many cancers developed by adolescent and young adults’ shows that there is a lack of progress in the understanding of the cause of their cancer and how to treat it.
Dr. Sender has recently developed SeventyK. SeventyK is an advocacy campaign, established to address the issues that the adolescent and young adult cancer population faces.
SeventyK represents the 70,000 children, adolescent and young adult patients in the United States diagnosed with cancer every year. As stated by Dr. Sender, “The goal of the SeventyK campaign is to raise awareness to the lack of rights that adolescent and young adult patients have in the organized medical world.”
“There is a Patients’ Bill of Rights in every hospital that is given to all patients when they are admitted. However, when you review the Bill of Rights of most institutions in the country you will find that it does not reflect the needs of the adolescent and young adult patient population specifically.”, Dr. Sender said.
The SeventyK project includes an Adolescent and Young Adult Bill of Rights that is available for every hospital, institution, organization, or individual person to sign in support of this bill. SeventyK hopes to establish a platform to advocate for adolescent and young adult cancer issues and to have this Bill or Rights implemented at all hospitals. This Bill of Rights can be reviewed and digitally signed at www.SeventyK.org.
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May 08, 2008
May 08, 2008- According to Dr. Leonard Sender, Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County, California and at the University of California, Irvine, recent data of the many cancers developed by adolescent and young adults’ shows that there is a lack of progress in the understanding of the cause of their cancer and how to treat it.
Dr. Sender has recently developed SeventyK. SeventyK is an advocacy campaign, established to address the issues that the adolescent and young adult cancer population faces.
SeventyK represents the 70,000 children, adolescent and young adult patients in the United States diagnosed with cancer every year. As stated by Dr. Sender, “The goal of the SeventyK campaign is to raise awareness to the lack of rights that adolescent and young adult patients have in the organized medical world.”
“There is a Patients’ Bill of Rights in every hospital that is given to all patients when they are admitted. However, when you review the Bill of Rights of most institutions in the country you will find that it does not reflect the needs of the adolescent and young adult patient population specifically.”, Dr. Sender said.
The SeventyK project includes an Adolescent and Young Adult Bill of Rights that is available for every hospital, institution, organization, or individual person to sign in support of this bill. SeventyK hopes to establish a platform to advocate for adolescent and young adult cancer issues and to have this Bill or Rights implemented at all hospitals. This Bill of Rights can be reviewed and digitally signed at www.SeventyK.org.
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