In April 2025, we hung out with Carolyn Van, Carolyn Van, Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA) Cancer Advocate extraordinaire and host of the Candidly Podcast. Candidly with Carolyn is leading a third space movement for honest discussions to be had about real everyday scenarios that those living with cancer come face-to-face with through diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
On December 1, 2023, Yee Won was one of five experts who spoke to the Sex and Gender Identification and Implications for Disability Evaluation for the Social Security Administration Committee at the National Academies of Sciences.
On October 26, 2023, Sharon Gill of Total Health interviewed us on our journey navigating cancer as transgender people. Total Health is a medical information company made up of innovators who produce tailored content and conferences for people who are treating or living with cancer.
On October 6, 2023, Yee Won was one of the speakers at the reception of The Science of Cancer Health Equity in Sexual and Gender Minority Communities Conference.
Healings is a project about illness, health care, and recovering from life's various maladies. Thank you Garret Kamps for interviewing us and writing this piece.
We are honored to receive this recognition with 24 other outstanding Champions of Health Equity, including POTUS!
Cancer and the LGBTQ+ community: From structural barriers and binary patient forms to gendered diseases, ‘queer cancer’ can be fraught with bias and bad assumptions. We had a chance to share our thoughts in this article by the Fred Hutch News Service.
In this podcast, Norma Steiner, MD, a gynecologic oncologist, has a conversation with Yee Won Chong about the multiple levels of care that transgender patients are navigating and how to improve healthcare for patients of all genders.
