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    Blue Faery: Improving Liver Cancer Care Through Education and Research With Andrea Wilson Woods

    Expert Perspectives

    By Keira Smith

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    At this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Andrea Wilson Woods, Founder of Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association, sat down to discuss Blue Faery, a nonprofit aimed to prevent, treat, and cure liver cancer, and how the use of education and research has helped Blue Faery with improving liver cancer care. This interview includes:

    • The beautiful story of Blue Faery’s foundation and its mission
    • What kinds of hepatocellular carcinoma research Blue Faery is involved in and supports
    • Education and advocacy work that Blue Faery does
    • Clinician-specific resources that Blue Faery provides
    • And more!

    About Ms. Wilson Woods

    Andrea Wilson Woods is a keynote speaker, a writer who loves to tell stories, and a patient advocate who founded the nonprofit Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association. For over 10 years, Andrea worked in the education field as a teacher and professor for public and private schools as well as universities. Andrea obtained her master’s degree in professional writing from the University of Southern California; her nonfiction writing has won national awards. Her best-selling and award-winning book, Better Off Bald: A Life in 147 Days, is a medical memoir about raising and losing her sister to liver cancer.