Meet Up'24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties Travel can be a bit prickly. Thanks to your input, we've gathered up a few details to help you enjoy your time in Scottsdale. Spend more time relaxing and getting to know your Pals, and less time searching for whatever...
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Appendix Cancer on Radar: Making a Difference, Working Together
Appendix Cancer on Radar: Making a Difference, Working Together Amber is the official color of Appendix Cancer Awareness. It symbolizes the courage, strength, and resilience of appendix cancer patients, care partners, and their families. Working together, we aim to...
Pals Living Life: Raising Awareness of Appendix Cancer
Each year, the Mike Weber Sr. Memorial Foundation holds its annual fundraiser at White Beeches Golf & Country Club in Haworth, NJ. Family members honor the legacy of Mike Sr., an appendix cancer survivor whose legendary impact on his local community lives on in...
Create a 5K Race Day Team & Team Fundraiser Page
Teams are fun! Create a 5K Race Day Team & Team Fundraiser Page Welcome to the One In a Million 5K Run/Walk. It's way more fun to do with friends, family, and coworkers - let's make it a TEAM EFFORT! To be clear, you can run the race without fundraising and you...
Resource Roundup: Summer 2024
We're always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be searching for information about current...
Setting Our Minds Straight
We don’t necessarily need a designated month to remind us how important emotional resilience is to our quality of life. Keeping a clear mental perspective affects our overall wellness, as well as our relationships with family and friends. But, it can be hard to...
Who’s Manju?
Each year, SSO/ACT extends the Gabriella Graham Patient Advocacy Award “to an individual or patient advocacy organization that has provided support and hope to patients and families facing cancers that are often treated with a regional treatment approach.” Pals...
Why We Go to SSO
Pals President Adele Jasion and Secretary-Treasurer Charmain Skillman attended the Society of Surgical Oncology’s Advanced Cancer Therapies (SSO/ACT) symposium in February 2024. Charmaine shares her perspective here. PMP Pals recently attended the meeting of the...
PALS ONLINE: Paul in Perth
Several Pals are very public with their illness, choosing to share their wellness journey online via YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Caring Bridge. All share the hope of helping a fellow appendix cancer survivor navigate the surprises of this diagnosis, along with...
PALS ONLINE: Jamie V.
Many of you may recognize Jamie V. as one of the “Pals Angels,” a HOPE Zoom moderator on Wednesday at 6pET/3pPT. She does a lot of volunteering for our group like mentoring other patients 1-on-1, assisting with graphic design (she helped with the 5K logo),...