President's Cancer Panel

In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Lance Armstrong to serve as a member of the President's Cancer Panel (PCP) where he served until January 2008. The PCP’s three-member panel monitors the development and execution of the activities of the National Cancer Program and reports directly to the President. Members serve three-year terms and at least two members must be scientists or physicians. The Panel meets at least four times a year, and meetings are open to the public. As a member of the PCP, Lance worked to raise awareness of cancer survivorship issues. In Lance's six years on the panel, five reports were issued with topics ranging from translational research to cancer prevention.

LaSalle D. Leffall, Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S., of the Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C, currently chairs the panel. Margaret L. Kripke, Ph.D., of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, also sits on the panel as well as the newest member Joe Torre, a cancer survivor, advocate, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager, who the President appointed in February 2008.