This week on Spotlight On Maryland, Gina Crash was joined in studio by Mindy Mintz Mordecai, President & CEO of the Esophageal Cancer Action Network, (ECAN), and Kim Wilson, ECAN Advocate, to talk about their mission and share their experiences. Mindy started the national, Baltimore-based nonprofit organization after losing her husband to the disease. Kim is a Stage IV Esophageal Cancer survivor and advocates for ECAN.
ECAN's mission is to save lives by promoting early detection by raising awareness about the link between heartburn and cancer, supporting medical innovation to prevent, detect and treat Esophageal Cancer, and providing patients and families with compassionate support and vital education. ECAN is led by a board of directors of top physicians, business leaders and families that have been touched by Esophageal Cancer.
ECAN's advocacy resulted in more than $20 million in additional Esophageal Cancer research funding in the last three years, and new immunotherapies are available to Esophageal Cancer patients in part because ECAN successfully advocated with the National Cancer Institute to include Esophageal Cancer in its groundbreaking genome-mapping project known as The Cancer Genome Atlas.
To find out more about ECAN, visit their website at ECAN.org. You can also follow them on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Vimeo, X and LinkedIn. click on the media player below to learn more.
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