Sandi - Yes, the person is a volunteer and either has the disease or the disease in in his family, I'm not sure. I have the disease. I was speaking on behalf of both myself and the generic "you" of all of us patients that are affected by this cancer in terms of being left out. I attend a lot of cancer conferences related to various topics and except when there is only one speaker there is usually at least one patient who is also presenting. The patient perspective is a different one and very valuable, as I'm sure you know. To me the information is incomplete when you only get the clinical side of a topic. Hope that makes things clearer.
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Sandi - Yes, the person is a volunteer and either has the disease or the disease in in his family, I'm not sure. I have the disease. I was speaking on behalf of both myself and the generic "you" of all of us patients that are affected by this cancer in terms of being left out. I attend a lot of cancer conferences related to various topics and except when there is only one speaker there is usually at least one patient who is also presenting. The patient perspective is a different one and very valuable, as I'm sure you know. To me the information is incomplete when you only get the clinical side of a topic. Hope that makes things clearer.
June 16, 2010 - 9:02pmThis Comment
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