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Jack West, MD, President and CEO of GRACE provides updates to our Lung Cancer Video Library. In this recent video, Dr. West discusses PDL1 as a biomarker for second line.

Jack West, MD, President and CEO of GRACE provides updates to our Lung Cancer Video Library. In this recent video, Dr. West discusses PDL1 as a biomarker for first line.

Download the speaker presentations and handouts from the Targeted Therapies Patient Forum in Cleveland at the Taussig Cancer Center on September 16, 2017.

Drs. H. Jack West, Medical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program at Swedish Cancer Institute in Seattle, Washington and President and CEO of GRACE...

On Saturday, September 16, 2017, patients, caregivers, family members and friends joined GRACE in Cleveland at the Taussig Cancer Center for a full...

ARTICLES

From the Grace Archives | Originally Published April 20, 2012 | By Dr. Cianfrocca It’s a very enticing proposition….that a single, over the counter...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published November 13, 2011 | By Dr. Weiss Why should you get a Second Opinion? My father once told me that the...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published November 13, 2011 | By Dr. Weiss Why should you get a Second Opinion? My father once told me that the...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published November 13, 2011 | By Dr. Weiss Why should you get a Second Opinion? My father once told me that the...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published November 13, 2011 | By Dr. Weiss Why should you get a Second Opinion? My father once told me that the...

COMMUNITY FORUM

Well, here we are again, asking more questions.... So, as you might have inferred from a previous post, our oncologist is confering with his tumor...
I am in Tagrisso 40 mg with food at dinner and experiencing an annoying tickle and cough due to worsened gerd symptoms. I also take pantraprazole 2x...
I am in Tagrisso 40 mg with food at dinner and experiencing an annoying tickle and cough due to worsened gerd symptoms. I also take pantraprazole 2x...
Aaahh...sigh..... Once more we are where we were a couple of years ago. The CT scan came back with mixed results. The lung, head, and bones show no...

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ASCO 2016 - Immuno-oncology Developments - Combinations and Use as First-Line Therapy

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GRACE is happy to present the 7th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer.  Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.

Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss Immuno-oncology developments: combinations and use as first line therapy.

 

ASCO 2016 - Does Current Evidence Support Favoring Proton-Beam Radiation?

Video

GRACE is happy to present the 6th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer.  Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.

Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss whether current evidence supports favoring proton-beam radiation.

 

ASCO 2016 - J-ALEX Trial: Should Alecensa Replace Xalkori as first-Line ALK Therapy

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GRACE is happy to present the 5th in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer.  Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.

Drs. West, Vokes and Ramalingam, along with patient advocate Janet Freeman-Daily, discuss the J-ALEX trial and whether Alecensa should replace Xalkori as a first-line ALK therapy.

 

 

CheckMate 026 trial fails to show benefit for Opdivo (nivolumab) in first line treatment of advanced NSCLC

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The transition of PD1 and PD-L1 inhibitors into the first line setting for at least some patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is poised to be the biggest sea change in the management of lung cancer over the next 1-2 years.  Based on the preliminary report that the Keynote 024 trial of the PD1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) vs.

ASCO 2016 - Urine or Blood Testing Instead of Lung Biopsy Shows Promise for Finding EGFR Mutations

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GRACE is happy to present the 3rd in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer.  Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.

ASCO 2016 - Can Online Patient Groups Speed The Development Of New Targeted Therapies?

Video

GRACE is happy to present the 2nd in our series ASCO 2016 Lung Cancer Roundtable, Highlights and New Approaches in Lung Cancer.  Featuring Jack West, MD, Janet Freeman-Daily, Everett Vokes, MD, and Suresh Ramalingam, MD, this roundtable discussion, moderated by Dr. West, highlights the newest and most intriguing discussions from ASCO 2016.

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