NCI’s Educational Video on Cancer Treatment and Tissue Donation Receives Silver National Health Information Award

The Cancer Diagnosis Program's educational video on cancer treatment and tissue donation was selected as a winner in the 23rd annual National Health Information Awards . The video received a Silver Award in the Video category. The awards program is coordinated by the Health Information Resource Center, a national clearinghouse for consumer health information programs and materials. The three-minute video portrays, through personal stories, why tissue donation can be so meaningful to patients and medical researchers. It is designed to be shared with hospitals, cancer centers, surgery clinics, biobank community advisory boards, and medical institution staff involved in conducting clinical trials, to offer a visual format as part of informed consent discussions about the subject of tissue donation with patients who are participating in research, and their families.

Those involved in the development of the video include:

• Lokesh Agrawal, PhD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• Janette Bourdon, Office of Communications and Public Liaison
• Margaret Cavenagh, MS, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• Louise Cunningham, MPH, Office of Communications and Public Liaison
• Anand Datta, MD, PhD, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
• Rhonda DeJoice, BA, Office of Communications and Public Liaison
• Seth Glass, MS, MBA, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• Ben Kim, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• Hala Makhlouf, MD, PhD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• JoyAnn Phillips Rohan, PhD, Translational Research Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
• Carol Weil, JD, Cancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis