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Children’s Cause has been the pioneer in ROSEN RESEARCH AWARD
advocacy for children with cancer. In my
time leading the Children’s Oncology Group At our annual cocktail Dr. Rowland is
and even before that, the advocacy reception and silent widely recognized as
community in pediatric cancer was quite auction in New York City, a national and
limited, and we needed Children’s Cause to we presented the 2018 international
bring a laser-light focus to what needed to be Leonard M. Rosen scholar, researcher
done but to also help organize advocates Memorial Research Award and leader in the
from around the country. to Julia Rowland, the psychosocial aspects
We need advocacy in Washington on the former Director of the of cancer care
Hill, we need advocacy at the NIH and
increasingly we need advocacy globally. Office of Cancer broadly and cancer
Children’s Cause is leading these efforts. Survivorship at the survivorship
- Dr. Peter Adamson, COG Chair National Cancer Institute. specifically.
