On September 23, Joey’s Wings joined fellow kidney cancer advocates and met with the Cancer Moonshot initiative at the White House.
During the meeting at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, we discussed expanding telehealth services, reducing environmental exposure to carcinogens, centering patient voices in clinical trials, and more. Joey’s Wings raised the question of how Cancer Moonshot can have a strategic plan encouraging pharmaceutical companies to include children in preclinical research and testing. Adults with kidney cancer have access to 2 or even 3 drugs combination, yet children don’t.
Big thanks to the Cancer Moonshot team for their dedication to this mission and KidneyCAN for leading us to advocate for kidney cancer research!