Patient advocacy allows ESMO to support and promote equal access to optimal cancer treatment and care
Previously known as 'ESMO Patient Seminars', these meetings fulfill one of ESMO's most important objectives – to disseminate knowledge to advocacy groups, cancer patient associations, caregivers, and the public.
Patient Advocates play a crucial role in supporting and informing Cancer patients and caregivers and in providing valuable input into healthcare decision-making processes. In this setting, education of patient advocates becomes critical to both ensure that patients are provided with accurate information and that their input into healthcare decision-making processes is relevant.
Since ESMO2016, the ESMO Patient Advocacy Track has been fully integrated in the Congress programme, enabling patient advocates to attend the scientific sessions that are relevant to them as well as the patient advocacy sessions.
You can connect to the community joining the ESMO Patient Advocates Facebook Group.
ESMO Congress 2022 Patient Advocacy Track
9-13 September 2022
The 2022 Patient Advocacy Track offers high-level educational sessions along with many opportunities to exchange best practices and knowledge:
- 6 sessions of 90 minutes each
- 31 faculty members
- The Hans Keulen Inspirational Session
Please click the button below to access the ESMO Congress 2022 Patient Advocacy Track Programme
ESMO 2022 Patient Advocacy Track Programme
ESMO 2021 Patient Advocacy Track
17-20 September 2021
The 2021 Patient Advocates Track offers great educational sessions along with many opportunities to exchange best practices and knowledge:
- 4 sessions of 60 minutes each
ESMO 2020 Patient Advocacy Track
16-18 October 2020, Virtual
The 2020 Patient Advocates Track offered great educational sessions along with many opportunities to exchange best practices and knowledge:
- 4 sessions and 19 faculty members
- Average of 534 attendees
- Average of 10 countries represented per session, including Brazil, China, Peru, and USA
ESMO 2020 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
ESMO 2019 Patient Advocacy Track
27 September - 1 October 2019, Barcelona, Spain
The 2019 Patient Advocates Track offered great educational sessions along with many opportunities to exchange best practices and network:
- 7 sessions and 33 faculty members
- Average of 350 attendees (with a few sessions attended by 800 delegates)
- More than 150 travel grants distributed
- 40 different countries represented, including Mexico, India, Canada and USA
- 7 industry supporters via educational grants
ESMO 2019 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
ESMO 2018 Patient Advocacy Track
19-23 October 2018, Munich, Germany
ESMO 2018 Patient Advocacy Track was very successful:
- 8 sessions and 33 faculty members
- Average of 260 attendees (with a few sessions resulting in overflow rooms)
- More than 160 travel grants distributed
- 38 different countries represented, including Canada, China, India, USA
- 8 industry supporters via educational grants
ESMO 2018 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
ESMO 2017 Patient Advocacy Track
8-12 September 2017, Madrid, Spain
ESMO 2017 Patient Advocacy Track registered the largest participation ever!
- 8 sessions and 35 faculty members
- Average of 250 attendees with peaks of over 1000 attendees for IO toxicities and 600 for PA reported outcomes
- 180 travel grants distributed
- 35 different countries represented, including USA, Brazil, India, Australia and Japan
- 7 industry supporters via educational grants
ESMO 2017 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
ESMO 2016 Patient Advocacy Track
7-11 October 2016, Copenhagen, Denmark
The ESMO 2016 Patient Advocacy Track had a new format, with advocacy-specific sessions taking place on the Friday (in parallel to industry-sponsored satellite symposia) and during lunch and early evening for the remainder of the congress.
This allowed patient advocates to attend sessions of interest to the advocacy community from other tracks such as Public Health and Health Economics, Supportive Care and Immunotherapy.
ESMO 2016 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
ESMO 2014 Patient Advocacy Track
27-28 September 2014, Madrid, Spain
For the first time at the ESMO 2014 Congress an entire track was dedicated to cancer patient advocates, representative of cancer leagues, healthcare professionals and industry representatives.
The event provided European patient organisations and bodies involved in patient care with an excellent networking opportunity and the possibility to discuss vital issues and challenges faced by cancer patients
The ESMO 2014 Patient Advocacy Track focused on Cancer Research, Treatment and Living, Capacity Building and Patient Adovacy. The track closed with a tribute to Selma Schimmel Founder of Vital Options® International, who passed away in May 2014 from a complication of ovarian cancer.
ESMO 2014 Patient Advocacy Track webcasts
9th ESMO Patient Seminar
Held in Vienna, Austria, on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 September 2012
8th ESMO Patient Seminar
Held in Milan, Italy, on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October 2010