USA Pickleball Sarcoma Early Detection Campaign

USA Pickleball is the National Governing body for the sport of pickleball in the US. It provides players with official rules, tournaments, rankings and promotional materials. Jamie Elliott, a pickleball champion, an ambassador to USA Pickleball and a patient diagnosed with Dedifferentiated Chondrosarcoma reached out to USA Pickleball to initiate a Public Relations campaign for the Early detection of Sarcomas. According to Jamie, “If my Chondrosarcoma was not detected early, I probably would not be here today.”

The USA Pickleball National Tournament took place in San Diego from November 15-23. A short video was aired on the stadium video board as well as the Ad (above) in the tournament program, to introduce the Sarcoma Early Detection campaign and shed light on Sarcoma’s and the need for Early Detection to save lives. SARC and the Chondrosarcoma Foundation teamed up to create the Smashing Sarcoma website to accompany the article.

The website is live: https://smashingsarcoma.org

If you are interested in being part of this effort, please email Jeff Kramer; [email protected]