Jacqueline Daly

Jacqueline is also a member of Cancer Patients Europe and vice-chair. She is a former malignant melanoma cancer patient and is a patient advocate and campaigner, bringing awareness and lobbying for change to local and national government agencies. She is a UCAN IRELAND committee member, a member of the Saolta University Cancer Network Advisory Board and a member of the Cancer Trials Ireland Patient Committee and the National Cancer Research Group for the National Cancer Control Programme. She is an active Public and Patient Involvement Group member of the Irish Society of Gynaecological Oncology, a Member of the EAU EPAG working group in Europe. In addition, Jacqueline is a member of the Let’s Talk Prostate Cancer expert group in Brussels and the HPV Action steering group of the European Cancer Organisation. She is a patient advisor with EORTC. As a member of the Movember advisory group, she is also a member of the Independent Cancer Patients’ Voice (ICP) and has completed VOICE the Science for Patient Advocates study week at Barts Cancer Institute.
Jacqueline is a complementary Healing Touch therapist and also develops and presents community outreach programmes and facilitates the CLIMB programme for children between the ages of 5 and 12 who have an adult in their lives diagnosed with cancer.
The main driving force behind Jacqueline’s patient advocacy work is her own experience with cancer and her experience caring for her husband when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. She experienced the turbulence that comes with a diagnosis firsthand, and as a result of this is a passionate advocate for improving and easing the cancer experience for others.