Patient Empowerment Network

The best cancer care happens when patients are empowered to ask the right questions, at the right time. Yet a diagnosis can make patients and their families feel out of control. Patient Empowerment Network (PEN) is where to go for help. We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to improving health literacy and treatment outcomes for cancer patients and care partners at every step of their journey. Through our free online resources covering diagnosis and testing, treatment, clinical trials, financing, recovery, and everything in between, we empower patients and care partners to take control of their healthcare journey. What differentiates PEN from other cancer advocacy groups is that we take health literacy a step further; our free online resources educate, then ACTIVATE cancer patients and their care partners to become co-decision makers with their healthcare teams. By insisting on the most current and personalized care available, empowered patients achieve better treatment outcomes—supporting this is at the heart of everything we do.? We are: a 501(c)(3) public charity founded in 2009; a virtual organization operating in the US, led and advised by high-profile patient-leaders in cancer communities; efficient in the delivery of our mission: >85% of our income is invested into programs; a small-but-mighty, highly flexible, and creatively collaborative team;? creators of custom patient-to-patient programs that address unmet patient and care partner needs via our Path to Empowerment Framework modeled on the NCI’s Cancer Experience Map;? providers of free specialty programming that always includes a Call to Action which is measured and reported following the conclusion of the program.