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Patient and Investigator Voices Organizing Together, PIVOT for short, is a patient research advocacy initiative at The University of Kansas Cancer Center. PIVOT provides cancer survivors, co-survivors and researchers the opportunity to work together to design research that may lead to improved treatments and therapies. It is one of the few such cancer center patient research advocacy initiatives in the country. With PIVOT, KU Cancer Center is expanding its mission to empower patients and advance quality, patient-focused cancer research and care. PIVOT helps ensure the cancer center maintains its sharp focus on patient-centered research initiatives.
PIVOT’s members provide guidance to cancer center researchers – whether they work with petri dishes in the lab, develop drugs or other treatment or prevention strategies, or oversee clinical trials – to ensure their work focuses on questions important to patients and takes patient and family preferences into account.
PIVOT's vision is for patients, families, caregivers and researchers to work together to accelerate innovative approaches to re-define cancer research. PIVOT’s mission is to improve research by:
Patients, their friends and family caregivers know what it’s like to live with cancer. We bring a face, sense of urgency and wisdom about what is truly important to patients. –Cheryl Jernigan
Cancer survivor and PIVOT member
To become a PIVOT member click here. To learn more, contact Sara Douglas at 913-945-6873 or PIVOT@kumc.edu.