Lung Cancer / Mesothelioma
The National Lung Cancer Partnership (NLCP) is listed among useful other resources on our website, but they’re actually another nonrofit organization with whom I and OncTalk have had an ongoing cooperative and actually very complementary relationship. Started by lung cancer expert and true leader Joan Schiller at the UT-Southwestern in Dallas, NLCP started as Women Against Lung Cancer and had a high […]
0 CommentsHello again! Some of you may have wondered why any patient would choose to see an oncology social worker. I thought I would take this opportunity to explore the top reasons why patients come to see me in the first place. These are not in any particular order, except for the first one, so […]
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I have noticed that a number of the participants on this site are Canadians, which is only one reason I always keep my extra Canadian “u”s in my posts. There have been a few issues that have come up that might be different on the other side of the border, […]
I reviewed a few general principles of acupuncture in my last post on its use for pain control. In addition, acupuncture has also been studied as a potential treatment modality for other nausea/vomiting, with some evidence to support its use in addition to anti-nausea (also called antiemetic) medications. Current ACCP guidelines (abstract here, again) […]
3 CommentsAcupuncture is a complementary approach that originated from traditional Chinese medicine, from a theory that the flow of vital energy, or “Qi” (pronounced CHEE, I believe, unless someone who speaks Chinese tells me otherwise) can be regulated by stimulation of key body areas with needles, heat, or pressure. It is generally felt to be […]
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November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and we need to scrap to ensure that lung cancer gets anything close to the attention it deserves. At my own institution, Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, we’re hosting an event on November 13, 2007 from 6 - 7:30 PM that will focus on early stage lung cancer […]
I recently received an e-mail from Cindy Langhorne, another member of the lung cancer community who I had met several years ago at a lung cancer meeting. At that time, she was serving as the Director of the Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE), which ultimately transformed into the current Lung […]
0 CommentsI do some continuing medical education (CME) work on lung cancer topics, working with various CME companies on lectures, web conferences, and some audio interviews. I recently conducted some interviews with a couple of my friends and fellow lung cancer experts, including Dr. Nasser Hanna from Indiana University (and lead investigator for the HOG trial […]
2 Comments I’m about to get on my flight back home, but I wanted to just give people a glimpse of the four presentations that were included in the Presidential Session of the meeting this morning.
The first was by Dr. Gary Strauss from Tufts Univ. in Boston. He presented evidence on the changing demographics of […]
Well, folks, I’m heading half-way around the world to Seoul, Korea, for the World Lung Cancer Conference, in Seoul, Korea. I’ll be on the faculty, speaking at a workshop on clinical trial design with targeted therapies for lung cancer, and then also giving a slide presentation on a small trial I did with an […]
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