Don’t Ignore Stage IV: Advocating For Metastatic Cancer

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is an annual, community-driven opportunity to highlight the needs, issues and challenges of young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15–39 and to spread the word about the…

Young Adult Cancer Is Different

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is an annual, community-driven opportunity to highlight the needs, issues and challenges of young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15–39 and to spread the word about the amazing work being done by patient advocates…

Health Insurance: A Puzzle Wrapped in an Enigma?

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is an annual, community-driven opportunity to highlight the needs, issues and challenges of young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15–39 and to spread the word about the amazing work…

Serving Survivors, Preserving Legacies

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is an annual, community-driven opportunity to highlight the needs, issues and challenges of young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15–39 and to spread the word about the amazing work being done by…

Meeting Ignites In My Shoes Pathway Audit Tool Development

Documenting the real-time, first-person adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer experience just got a little closer to reality.

Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week Schedule of Events

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is here, and that means it’s time for our adolescent and young adult (AYA) community to come together and amplify the message that young adult cancer is different. This year, we’ve collaborated…

Elephants and Evolution

A New Path Forward for Critical Mass

By Heidi Adams, President/CEO, Critical Mass

The 9th Annual Critical Mass Annual Conference has ended, and it’s truly one for the history books. In only the fourth year after…

“You’re Cancer Free!” (So Why Do You Feel So Conflicted?)

National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week is an annual, community-driven opportunity to highlight the needs, issues and challenges of young adults diagnosed with cancer between the ages of 15–39 and to spread the word about the…

April 6–10: The 12th Annual Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week

We are thrilled to have Terry Wilcox, Executive Director of Vital Options International, virtually kick off this year’s National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week. Just as the young adult movement started with Selma Schimmel…

Looking Back and Moving Forward

In case you’re starting to forget all of the amazing work, connections and learning that happened way back in 2014 at the Critical Mass Annual Conference, here’s the video recap!