Samantha Eisenstein Watson is already an accomplished mAss Kicker! After kicking some Ewing’s Sarcoma mAss and then kicking some Leukemia mAss, she started the nonprofit The SAMFund to help supplement money for young adult survivors that was lost during treatment. They provide grants and scholarships to help pay for transitional issues such as education, living, job search and lingering medical expenses.  We were very lucky to catch a few minutes with this extremely busy woman!

Adam Garone is the second Featured mAss Kicker from down under.  He is one of the creators of “Movember,” a global campaign designed to bring awareness to men’s health issues and benefit prostate cancer research and the LiveStrong Young Adult Alliance. Movember’s unique blend of fun, irreverence, and innovative use of technology has created a grass roots movement that has experienced exponential growth. In 2007, the campaign went global, with more than 134,000 men from US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, Spain, New Zealand and Australia growing Mos. With continued success, Movember 2009 brought together almost 256,000 moustaches procuring over a million donations to raise $40 million.

Cancer epidemiological research helps uncover risk factors that are associated with different tumor types. Cancer outcomes research essentially includes research on quality of life and other psychosocial issues that come up for patients, cancer relapse and recurrence, and ultimately cancer survival. All of these kinds of research are important to improve the lives of cancer patients and their loved ones, and research is built upon patient participation.