Jane Lyons is CEO of Cancer52, an alliance of more than 80 largely small patient support group charities working in the field of rare and less common cancer. She has worked for Cancer52 for more than three years and before that was CEO of the women's gynaecological cancer charity The Eve Appeal. Jane's earlier years were spent in the communications field and she has been a director of top ten consultancies, run her own for more than a decade, and worked at a senior level in house.