Planning Your Legacy

While cancer care is often communicated through pamphlets and treatment plans, this symposium is intentionally structured to go beyond the brochure. It creates space for honest, experience-based dialogue led by community professionals who care for patients every day and understand their physical, emotional, and practical needs throughout the course of illness.

Hosted by Dr. Amy Hughes, founder of the Amadora Legacy Project, Mission Talks: Beyond the Brochure is a physician-informed symposium shaped by the questions patients and families often face throughout cancer care. This year’s inaugural series topic, Planning Your Legacy, presented by the Iowa Oncology Society, will focus on the emotional, physical, practical, and financial considerations that can arise during advanced illness, offering attendees meaningful information, supportive resources, and compassionate guidance for navigating complex care decisions with greater confidence and understanding.

The symposium will bring together diverse voices to help patients, families, and caregivers better understand supportive care resources, financial considerations, and caregiver needs. Together, these conversations aim to provide a more complete picture—one that acknowledges not just the disease, but the person and family experiencing it.

Mission Talks: Beyond the Brochure is intended to be the beginning of an ongoing series that fosters understanding, creates connection, reduces uncertainty, and empowers individuals with information that is both compassionate and informed.