Cancer Patient Alliance's mission is to improve health outcomes for cancer patients through cancer education, addressing health disparities, and enabling cancer patients and their families to become active participants in their medical care.
Cancer Patients Alliance’s Big Idea for 2025, termed Monterey County Alliance for Cancer, is to provide advocacy and support for individual low-income Latinos and farm workers with cancer in the whole of Monterey County.
Cancer is the #1 cause of death in the Latino population (now over 60.4% of the county), yet local resources for the under-resourced with cancer continue to remain thin. Cancer Patients Alliance in collaboration with local stakeholders help Latinos, farm workers and medically under-resourced persons better bridge the gap from cancer patient to cancer survivor.
I have been impressed with the oncology projects of the local Cancer Patients Alliance, aimed at providing support to low-income Latinos and farm workers with cancer in Monterey County.
- Oguchi Nkwocha, MD, MS, Salinas, California
