Rose Woodward
Rose is a long-term patient survivor of kidney cancer and a passionate and active patient advocate. She became involved in advocacy and patients’ rights in the UK in 2003 and later led the “Fight for Life” campaign for NHS funded KC treatments. She now runs Action Kidney Cancer which is a grassroots patient led charity providing practical support and advocacy for the kidney cancer community in the UK. She enjoys a very busy life running the Action Kidney Cancer charity and is still dedicated to helping empower patients to play a full role in all aspects of their care.
Rose has just retired after serving 10 years as a full member of the National Cancer Research Institute Renal Cancer Group where she worked hard to establish meaningful patient involvement in all aspects of kidney cancer research ranging from clinical trial design through to survivorship studies. Rose is a founding member of the IKCC.