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Do You Have Cancer Pain? Please Take Our SurveyAPF is committed to reaching out to our members to help us better understand how your pain affects your daily life. Some of you live with pain as a result of cancer and its treatment, whether you are an active patient or a cancer survivor. At APF, we would like to know your perspective on cancer breakthrough pain, its impact on your life and the kind of information that would help you the most. Breakthrough pain is sudden, temporary flares of severe pain that emerges despite taking long acting pain medication on a regularly basis; it can occur spontaneously or in relation to a specific activity. Please take a quick moment and complete our What I Needed to Know about Breakthrough Cancer Pain Survey. Your insight will help us so that we may better serve you.
APF Receives Transfer of Key Assets from National Pain FoundationToday the American Pain Foundation announced that it is accepting a gracious offer from the National Pain Foundation of a transfer of key assets. This transfer, which includes web content, program and membership materials, a pain health care provider directory, and the John C. Oakley Memorial Fund, will occur over the next six months with an anticipated completion date of May 2010, at which point the National Pain Foundation will cease all operations. “We are honored to be the repository of important program materials and resources that have been designed to serve people with pain and their loved ones. The National Pain Foundation’s efforts and hard work will live on at the American Pain Foundation. These materials will complement existing American Pain Foundation materials without being redundant, and we look forward to featuring them on our website over the coming months,” said Will Rowe, CEO, American Pain Foundation. Read full press release.
APF Recognizes the Outstanding Leadership and Advocacy Efforts Made in Advancing Rights of People with Pain
Presidential Commendations were presented to First Lady Michelle Obama and Cindy Steinberg, who is APF’s Pain Community Advisory Council’s representative to the Board of Directors, Power Over Pain Action Network Leader for Massachusetts, Northeast Director of the American Chronic Pain Association and Legislative Chair of the Massachusetts Pain Initiative. The Public Service Award was presented to the Honorable Orrin Hatch (UT); the James N. Campbell Creative Leadership Award was presented to the Trustees of the Mayday Fund; the Media Award was presented to Susan Dentzer, Editor-in-Chief, Health Affairs: The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere; and the Patient Advocate Award was presented to Navy Corpsman and APF’s Amputee Outreach Program Advocate, Derek McGinnis. Read more>> APF Endorses New Report Calling for Urgent Medical Training and Health System Reform on PainIn an effort to urge the medical community, government agencies and Congress to address the inefficiencies in chronic pain care and treatment, the American Pain Foundation (APF) along with more than 30 other organizations endorsed a new report released by the Mayday Fund, A Call to Revolutionize Chronic Pain Care in America: An Opportunity in Health Care Reform calling for urgent medical training and health care reform on pain. The press conference was led by APF board members Russell Portenoy, MD, Lonnie Zeltzer, MD, and California Power Over Pain Action Network leader, Gina Libby. APF CEO Will Rowe and several other members of the Board of Directors were a part of the special committee to develop the recommendations. The full report is available>>
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