Carolyn Taylor is a photographer, a supportive cancer care advocate and a survivor of ovarian and endometrial cancers. In 2010, after winning a British Airways grant, she traveled more than 120,000 miles to 14 countries using photography and interviews to document that regardless of race, religion, nationality or economic status, cancer has no borders. Inspired by the people she met and the lack of supportive services taken for granted in high-resource settings, Carolyn founded Global Focus on Cancer in 2011 to act as an agent of simple and effective change to help reduce the global burden of cancer through evidence-based programs in support, awareness, education, advocacy and networking in low-resource settings. Carolyn serves as a content expert with the Women’s Empowerment Cancer Advocacy Network, sits on ASCO’s Gynecologic Cancer Guidelines Committee as well as a Technical Measures Panel, was a contributing author to the Lancet series ‘Health, Equity and Women’s Cancers’ and has another 12 peer reviewed publications to her credit. She is currently a member of the Lancet Commission on Women and Cancer and a frequent speaker/moderator at global cancer conferences. Since 2015, Ms. Taylor has served as the co-founder and co-chair of the SE Asia Breast Cancer Symposium.

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