{"id":5528,"date":"2017-03-17T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=5528"},"modified":"2017-03-17T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T20:03:37","slug":"national-cancer-institutes-office-of-advocacy-relations-a-conversation-with-patrick-mahoney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=5528","title":{"rendered":"National Cancer Institute&#8217;s Office of Advocacy Relations: A Conversation with Patrick Mahoney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5529\" style=\"width: 416px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/CCTR3-16-17\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5529\" class=\"wp-image-5529 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCTR3-16-17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCTR3-16-17.jpg 406w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCTR3-16-17-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCTR3-16-17-242x150.jpg 242w, https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CCTR3-16-17-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for podcast download<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Childhood Cancer Talk Radio interviews Patrick Mahoney from the Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) at NCI. \u00a0The March 16 discussion included a brief history of the National Cancer Institute, it&#8217;s role as a scientific research institution as well as resource of support and direction for millions afflicted with cancer. \u00a0&#8220;We want people to contact us&#8230;let us know their greatest concerns to better represent public\u00a0interests in cancer research..,&#8221; he sustained, sharing examples of public input affecting research and eventual solutions where there had previously been none. \u00a0Host Janet Demeter ensured the conversation included the &#8220;dreaded&#8221; 4% issue&#8211;gladly addressed by Mahoney, bringing to the forefront the current challenges in medical research and also the recent efforts of advocates which have had a definite impact on the course of research and the importance of pediatric research at NCI, keeping the discussion\u00a0to a collaborative and jovial spirit, and an optimistic outlook for pediatric research at NCI. \u00a0The National Cancer Institute remains the greatest contributor to the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Childhood Cancer Talk Radio interviews Patrick Mahoney from the Office of Advocacy Relations (OAR) at NCI. \u00a0The March 16 discussion included a brief history of the National Cancer Institute, it&#8217;s role as a scientific research institution as well as resource of support and direction for millions afflicted with cancer. \u00a0&#8220;We\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/?p=5528\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,72,140],"tags":[30,399,290,18,83,1113,359,1114,1115,1118,1117,1116],"class_list":["post-5528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cctalkradio","category-editorial","category-newsflash","tag-30","tag-cancer","tag-janet-demeter","tag-national-cancer-institute","tag-nci","tag-oar","tag-office-of-advocacy-relations","tag-patrick-mahoney","tag-pediatric-research","tag-public-input-affecting-research","tag-public-interests","tag-scientific-research-institution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jacksangelsfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}