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VIDEOS

Combination therapy IO + Chemo in Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Schmid

GRACE and PRIME Oncology have partnered to present to you information from the prIME Oncology satellite symposium held in conjunction with the 2018...

Review of Recent Progress in Immunotherapy in Triple Negative Breast Cancer - Schmid

GRACE and PRIME Oncology have partnered to present to you information from the prIME Oncology satellite symposium held in conjunction with the 2018...

BRCA Mutations What does it Mean When Choosing My Treatment - Litton

GRACE and PRIME Oncology have partnered to present to you information from the prIME Oncology satellite symposium held in conjunction with the 2018...

Cancer Myths in the Latino Community - 3 Myths About Breast Cancer

GRACE is excited to bring to our Spanish speaking community a new series on Cancer Myths Our friend and partner, Narjust (N.J.) Duma, MD is a Chief...

Cancer Myths in the Latino Community - Introduction

GRACE is excited to bring to our Spanish speaking community a new series on Cancer Myths Our friend and partner, Narjust (N.J.) Duma, MD is a Chief...

ARTICLES

Aiming Big: Five Recommended Shifts in Attitude & Societal Priorities for Improving Cancer Care in the US
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published May 30, 2011 | By Dr West | 3 Comments In my last post, I described a recent piece in the NEJM that...
Aiming Big: Five Recommended Shifts in Attitude & Societal Priorities for Improving Cancer Care in the US
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published May 30, 2011 | By Dr West | 3 Comments In my last post, I described a recent piece in the NEJM that...
Mutations, expression, and genes, oh my…
Published June 21, 2011 | By Dr Goodgame | 3 Comments The most exciting breakthroughs these days in cancer treatment are the identification of drugs...
Mutations, expression, and genes, oh my…
Published June 21, 2011 | By Dr Goodgame | 3 Comments The most exciting breakthroughs these days in cancer treatment are the identification of drugs...
Mutations, expression, and genes, oh my…
Published June 21, 2011 | By Dr Goodgame | 3 Comments The most exciting breakthroughs these days in cancer treatment are the identification of drugs...

ONLINE COMMUNITY

Pancoast tumor??
Not sure if this is where i need to be. I started having shoulder pain about a year ago. The pain has become more intense and spread to include my arm...
All the wrong symptoms...
I was diagnosed in October 2020 with a Pancoast tumor in my right lung and it is my hope that this blog might help somebody recognize early symptoms...
Possible aggressive skin cancer being misdiagnosed?
My husband had a scar like white patches start on the back of one hand about 6-7 weeks ago. At first he was told it was a chemical burn and treated...
Happy Thanksgiving
Hi! Just realized I hadn't posted in a while and wanted to send a brief update and a big thanks for Thanksgiving (a few days late). All is still going...
Incidental finding
Happy Sunday all. I'm new and trying to figure what is going on with me and an "incidental" finding from February 21, 2020. I have a host of spine...

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Multiple EGFR mutation lung cancer
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Multiple EGFR mutation lung cancer
The tumor still getting bigger
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2022: Latest Info. on Testing, Early Diagnosis, Treatments
Interesting videos!
Comment By drpriyankachiripal on Oct 5, 2023 3:48 am

regarding treatment options for moderately adenocarcinoma in lungs and metastasis in bones

Discussion Topic
General Discussion!

Dear Team,

my mother had breast cancer 5 yrs back.compleyed surgery of breast removal and had harmone therapy for 5 yrs and recently diagnosed with metastasis in bones and adenocarcinoma in lungs

she is given biophosphonates injection for 3 days and currently undergoing radiation therapy for metastasis identified in bones region only

she completed pet ct scan, biopsy, ihc, and ct coronary angiography, chest xray.

we are trying to test EGFR, ALK, ROS1, PDL1 stating that will take 17 days to get results

Case Based Panel Discussion - Choosing Between Targeted Therapy and Immunotherapy in a Patient with an EGFR Mutation and High PDL-1 Expression

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Drs Zofia Piotrowska, H. Jack West, and Taofeek Owonikoko sit down to discuss a series of case-based scenarios. In this video, the doctors discuss the treatment choice between targeted therapy and immunotherapy in a patient with an EGFR Mutation and high PDL-1.  

ASCO 2018 Roundtable - Head and Neck Cancer - Advances in Immunotherapy in Head and Neck Cancer

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Drs. Jared Weiss, Associate Professor, of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Josh Bauml, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, gathered post meeting to discuss new information from ASCO 2018 regarding head and neck cancers...

ASCO 2018 Roundtable - Head and Neck Cancer - Attempts to Decrease Toxicity of Chemoradiotherapy

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Drs. Jared Weiss, Associate Professor, of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Josh Bauml, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, gathered post meeting to discuss new information from ASCO 2018 regarding head and neck cancers.  

Silibinin effective for brain metastases in lung cancer

Discussion Topic
General Lung/Thoracic Cancer

This seems to be an option for everyone with brain metastases (inform your doctor as it is quite new) ) Here are links to research done in Spain in 2017 where patients brain mets improved significantly by taking silibinin :
https://academic.oup.com/annonc/article/28/suppl_5/mdx366.035/4108588 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5077992/

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