Andrew Spiegel

Andrew Spiegel has a long and personal history in the patient advocate community. In 1998, Spiegel’s mother was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. She exhibited numerous symptoms, which were ignored by her physicians, and died nine months later. In a most odd and unfair twist, toward the end of his mother’s life, Spiegel’s father was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and he died two days before Andrew’s mother. It was then that Spiegel knew the rest of his life would be spent in the patient advocacy world. Because there was already a patient advocacy group for pancreatic cancer (PANCAN), Spiegel and a group of others founded the Colon Cancer Alliance, now the leading US based national patient advocacy organization dedicated to colon cancer. Mr. Spiegel, an attorney, besides being a co-founder of the organization and longtime board member of the Alliance became CEO in January of 2008 and he ran the CCA for nearly 5 years, before undertaking his next venture, the Global Colon Cancer Association (GCCA). Currently, Spiegel is co-founder and executive director of the GCCA, an international patient advocacy organization. This organization is an international community of colon cancer patient advocacy organizations and stakeholders dedicated to end the worldwide suffering of the 2nd leading cause of cancer deaths. In addition to his work in the colon cancer community, Spiegel is an active advocate for healthcare policies both in the US and now worldwide. He is a frequent...
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