Empowering the Patient Voice
At Daiichi Sankyo, patients are the heart of everything we do. We are committed to supporting those living with cancer, recognizing that each patient is an expert in their personal disease and has a unique perspective about their care. We strive to honor the patient credo of
No Decision About Me, Without Me by partnering directly with those impacted by cancer around the world.
Patient advocacy at Daiichi Sankyo also involves supporting policy and legislation that impacts those living with cancer, as well as collaborating with nonprofit organizations, community groups and government bodies to prioritize patient rights and representation to enhance patient care. Our efforts ensure that the voices of those living with cancer are heard—both in their own care and the broader cancer conversation.
We partner with patient advocacy groups around the world to co-create and sponsor tailored educational initiatives and content to close knowledge gaps and empower patients, survivors and caregivers to advocate and make informed decisions.
This work supports key areas such as drug discovery and development, inclusive clinical trial design, minimizing financial barriers, and improving access to screening and testing. At the same time, it aims to address important patient needs—including navigating treatment complexity, managing side effects and medicine adherence, reducing stigma, supporting survivorship, and tackling persistent care inequities.
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To address important needs:
How We Think: Patient Centricity
Patient Advocacy includes the full range of activities that incorporates the insights from patients and their communities into the drug development and delivery process. Some of the activities include raising awareness of specific disease areas and helping close the knowledge gaps that may exist between science and healthcare for patients.
In Their Shoes Patient Journey: “In Their Shoes” is a Daiichi Sankyo patient-centric program that brings the patient experience to life for our employees around the world. We learn how different each patient's journey can be as we bring forward thoughtfulness and empathy toward the patients who share their stories with us and answer our questions. We follow these sessions with immersive, hands-on activities that engage everyone in our company.
What We Do: Patient Engagement
Patient Engagement means interacting in an open and ongoing manner with patients to respectfully and compassionately learn what matters most to them, during and post treatment, as they continue their survivorship journey. When we engage patients and gain their insight during our process, we achieve the best experience and outcome for that person and their family.
How We Do It: Patient Advocacy
To be a patient advocate is to work to help improve the lives of people with cancer. We do this in several ways: supporting those living with cancer, raising awareness of different cancers and related issues, advancing cancer research, improving the quality of cancer care and addressing policy issues affecting the cancer experience.
Our Partnerships: this is a sample of the advocacy groups we engage with.
