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Video Library

What To Discuss With Your Healthcare Team - a Diagnosis of Triple Negative Breast Cancer - 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 Journey:
Just Diagnosed
Cancer Type:
Breast Cancer
Disease Learning:
Breast Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Tumor Mutation Burden Current Status
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
General Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Evolving Standards for Molecular Testing in Advanced NSCLC
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Immunotherapy in Stage III NSCLC, PACIFIC Trial and Imfinzi
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Immunotherapies
Lung Cancer Video Library Mandarin - Combinations of Immunotherapy Agents in Advanced NSCLC
For our Mandarin speaking community, Jenny J. Li, MD, Hematology/Oncology Fellow at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN, offers translated updates to our...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Immunotherapies

Articles

Balancing Risks of Undertreatment vs. Overtreatment of Locally Advanced NSCLC
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published May 14, 2011 | By Dr West More recent posts are available that contain additional treatment options...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
First-line treatment
“Hail Mary” Plays in Cancer Care: Hope, False Hope, Finance, and Futility
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published July 30, 2011 | By Dr West Our weekly thoracic tumor board, a multidisciplinary meeting with multiple...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Melanoma, Blood Cancers, Head and Neck Cancer
Disease Learning:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Melanoma, General Lung Cancer, General Blood Cancer, General Head and Neck Cancer, First-line treatment
The Primacy of Quality of Life: Are trialists finally learning what patients have known all along?
From the GRACE Archives -- Originally Published November 5, 2009 | By Dr. Weiss I treat cancer for two and only two reasons. I want my patients to...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment, In Remission, Survivorship
Cancer Type:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Melanoma, Blood Cancers, Head and Neck Cancer
Disease Learning:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Melanoma, General Lung Cancer, General Blood Cancer, General Head and Neck Cancer
Project Zero Delay: Maybe There is Hope for the Clinical Trials Process After All!
From the GRACE Archives - Originally Published August 26, 2009 | By Dr Pennell OK, I hope you all aren’t bored to tears by this topic by now, given...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment, In Remission, Survivorship
Cancer Type:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Melanoma, Blood Cancers, Head and Neck Cancer
Disease Learning:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Melanoma, General Lung Cancer, General Blood Cancer, General Head and Neck Cancer
The Clinical Trials Process is Broken? Well, Duh!
From the GRACE Archives - Originally Published April 11, 2009 | By Dr Pennell This week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, a group of clinical...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment, In Remission, Survivorship
Cancer Type:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Melanoma, Blood Cancers, Head and Neck Cancer
Disease Learning:
Bladder Cancer, Breast Cancer, Melanoma, General Lung Cancer, General Blood Cancer, General Head and Neck Cancer

Community Forum

Local Therapies for Metastatic Lung Cancer Who, What, Why, When and How?
Hi Grace Members, Grace is happy to present in partnership with the Swedish Cancer Institute " Local Therapies for Metastatic Lung Cancer Who,...
Cancer Journey:
Just Diagnosed, In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, Drugs, Targeted Therapies – ALK, Targeted Therapies - EGFR, Targeted Therapies – ROS1, Procedures & Treatments, Chemotherapy, Tumor Marker Tests, Targeted Therapy, Investigational Agents, Immunotherapies, Radiation Therapy, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Progression on Tarceva - T790m negative
Progression after 3 1/2 years on Tarceva. Tissue biopsy showed T790m negative. Any suggestions/experience on next steps? Onc suggesting I move to Afatinib or a Opdivo. PDL1 was tested and is <1%.
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, General Lung Cancer, Targeted Therapies - EGFR, Targeted Therapy, Molecular Testing, Immunotherapies, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Keytruda for Adenocarcinoma (NSCLC), first PET-CT result
Hello friends, My mom, (aged 77, Adenocarcinoma NSCLC, Stage 4, EGFR and ALK negative) was diagnosed in 2014, underwent VATS and pleurodesis,...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, General Lung Cancer, Immunotherapies, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Stage IIIb ALK NSCLC first line treatment
This question is not for a specific patient, it is designed to understand how oncologists would approach this problem. There’s a 50 year old stage...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Targeted Therapies – ALK, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer
Tough decision between a whole brain radiation vs occipital craniotomy
My wife is experiencing a second time brain tumor recurrence. She had her first occipital craniotomy back in 2011. On late Oct 2013 she began to...
Cancer Journey:
In Treatment, Survivorship
Cancer Type:
Lung Cancer
Disease Learning:
Lung Cancer, General Lung Cancer, Symptoms, Pain Medication, Procedures & Treatments, Maintenance Therapy, Radiation Therapy, Non Small Cell Lung Cancer