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Salinas Valley Alliance for Cancer
SVAC is an initiative offering one-on-one support and advocacy for individual Latinos and farm workers with cancer in the Salinas Valley agricultural region of Monterey County, California. This includes such efforts as help with medical access, with financial resources including insurance, guidance regarding Medi-Cal, overcoming logistics (transportation, child care, etc.), encouragement to finish initial treatment, help with obstacles (language, cultural, etc.), and help with follow-up after initial treatment.
Salinas Valley Alliance for Cancer Care Equity
Cancer Patients Alliance was a 2021 recipient of a 3-year Robert Wood Johnson Foundation award to further our work with the Latinx community, immigrants and farm workers with cancer in the Salinas Valley. The aims of this initiative are to give voice to the underserved with cancer in Monterey County, California – with an aim to help effect policy change that will ensure that all residents have access to at least adequate and decent treatment and care for cancer.
ALCANCE
Cancer Patients Alliance (CPA) is a key community partner in the Addressing Latinx Cancer Care Equity (ALCANCE) initiative as a joint Stanford University – Monterey County, California project to provide access to the emerging DNA technologies – with cultural translation – to Latinos with or at risk for cancer – as funded by the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine. As such, CPA works closely with Stanford, the Pacific Cancer Care oncology practice and the FQHC clinic network Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas in cancer genetic screening, cancer education & prevention, and both culturally appropriate support and tumor testing.
Get Out the Vaccine for Covid 19
In 2021 Cancer Patients Alliance was selected by the California GOTV medical academic consortium as led by UCLA – to conduct the “Get Out the Vaccine to Stop Covid-19” initiative for low-income populations in Monterey County, California. This has included house-to-house canvassing of residents to answer their questions about the vaccination process, make appointments for them and help with logistics; telephone and text reminders in select ZIP codes; and accessing special events.
CancerPACTS.org
The aim of Cancer Patients Alliance for Clinical Trials & Survivorship (CancerPACTS.org) initiative is to serve as a training tool and ongoing support initiative for those navigators who work with us in supporting Latinos and the medically underserved with cancer.
Pancreatica.org
The purpose of this site is to act as a worldwide gathering point on the Internet for the latest news and disinterested information in regard to clinical trials and other responsible medical care in the treatment of primarily ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas. Additionally, our aim is to present impartial knowledge about pancreatic cancer where interested parties can sort through a large amount of information efficiently in order to give a sense of the range of existing treatment options, to aid patient/doctor partnerships, and thus to help optimize personal treatment strategies.
NETumor.net
Neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas (islet cell tumors) are much less common than tumors arising from the exocrine pancreas. Reports indicate that there are about two to three thousand cases diagnosed in the U.S. each year – although autopsy indicates that there may be a much higher incidence than are diagnosed. This NET resource maintains current information about the diagnosis and treatment for neuroendocrine tumors.
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