Patient advocacy ensures that people are heard, take action and ultimately improve situations, achieve changes or help to fulfil unmet medical needs. The projects that were entered for the "Sarcoma Advocacy in Action Award 2018" once again showed this impressively! All entries were fantastic and the jury had a hard job to decide on the winners. But they did. These are the winners of the "Sarcoma Advocacy in Action Award 2018":

1. Das Lebenshaus, Germany for the pdf "German Sarcoma Conference" (1.07 MB)
2. GIST Support UK/PAWS GIST, UK for the pdf "PAWS-GIST clinic" (815 KB)
3. Patientenplatform Sarcomen, The Netherlands for the pdf "Patient Forum Miner" (606 KB)

Thanks to all the groups that entered their fantastic work - you can find information about all projects that were entered here:

• Polish GIST Patients Aid Association, Poland, for
  pdf "The 4/2018 issue of the journal ‘Voice of the Oncological Patient’,devoted to patients suffering SARCOMA" (616 KB)
• #cycle4sarcoma, Finland, for
  pdf "#cycle4sarcoma, social media interface, cycling and fundraising for sarcoma" (829 KB)
• The Bone Cancer Research Trust (BCRT) / The National Ewings Multi-Disciplinary Team Advisory Group (NEMDT), UK, for the
  pdf "Patient Perspectives of the Cancer Multi-Disciplinary Team" (214 KB)
• AEAS-Asociación Española de Afectados por Sarcomas, Spain, for the
  pdf "International Sarcoma Day in Spain. Beyond sarcoma: people, words and projects with soul.” (437 KB)

Thanks also to our jury Barbara Tamagni, Sarah McDonald, Kai Pilgermann, Nikhil Guhagarkar as patient adovcates and Winette van der Graaf, Mikael Eriksson, Robin Jones and Bernd Kasper from the expert community.

Background on the SPAEN Advocacy in Action Award

We were looking for projects, initiatives, campaigns fulfilling the following eligibility criteria: