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Check out the PIVOT Advocate and Researcher Working Together Toolkit, adapted with permission from Susan G. Komen's Advocates in Science.

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The University of Kansas Cancer Center 
to re‐define cancer research.

The PIVOT Advocate and Researcher Working Together Toolkit, adapted with permission from Susan G. Komen's Advocates in Science, includes:

  • Building Advocate-Researcher Relationships to Strengthen Research
  • Guidelines for Advocate Involvement in Research
  • Patient Advocate Involvement Plan: Suggestions for Researchers
  • Writing a Lay Abstract
  • Resources for Advocates and Researchers
  • Patient Advocate Letter of Support/Commitment
  • Patient Advocate Bio Template and Examples
  • Frontiers Principles of Partnership Self-Assessment Tool
  • PCORI Engagement Rubric for Applicants
  • Komen's "The Call to ARMs: Advocates, Researchers, Mentors" Webinar
  • What's it like to be a patient research advocate?

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