January has come and now gone…just like that.  And we know that Dr. Sanborn and Dr. Pinder are wonderfully helpful and truly committed to the GRACE community — so much so that we can only thank them for their participation this past month and take comfort in knowing that we’ll bring them back, and that Drs. Walko, Loiselle, and Cianfrocca will stay on with me.  We’re also going to try to make up for their leaving by heaping on a bounty of people and activities this month.

First, we’ll have three rotating faculty joining us again this month.  Dr. Nate Pennell from the Cleveland Clinic will be returning, as will Dr. Stephanie Harman from Stanford, with her particular specialty in symptom management and supportive care, and also Dr. Hensing from the University of Chicago and NorthShort University HealthSystem.  All have worked with GRACE before, and we’re excited to have them return.

Second, we are literally in the final steps before switching to the new, better software for the website.  The blog side (all of the post content) will look pretty similar, with mostly cosmetic changes, except that everything will function much better because we’ll be on the latest version of the right software for us… at this point, we’ve really outgrown the clunky outdated work-around version we’ve relied on up to now.  Things like the search function will not only work but will even be able to be filtered by subject, so that you’ll be able to sort and find only the information relevant to your cancer:

new-grace-search (click on image to enlarge)

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