In the latest video from the ASCO round table, Drs. Nate Pennell, Mary Pinder and Jack West review the results presented at ASCO 2013 from the PRONOUNCE trial of the ECOG 4599 trial regimen compared with carboplatin/Alimta (pemetrexed) followed by maintenance Alimta.

You can watch the video here: http://cancergrace.org/lung/2013/06/14/pronounce-trial/

We welcome your questions and comments here.

JimC
Forum moderator

In the first video from the ASCO round table with Drs. Pennell, Pinder and West, the doctors discuss the Biomarkers France trial of testing on a national scale for clinically relevant biomarkers in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). You can find the video here: http://cancergrace.org/lung/2013/06/07/biomarkers-france-molecular-test…

We welcome your questions and comments here.

JimC
Forum moderator

I am a graduate student at the University of West Florida’s Department of Communication Arts and would like to invite you to participate in a research study focusing on computer-mediated communication and chemotherapy. This study will assess the communication patterns involved in support group participation by gathering data through a private Facebook group, Chemo Chat. You may participate if you are currently undergoing chemotherapy. Please do not participate if you are no longer undergoing chemotherapy.

As a participant, you will be asked to communicate within the Facebook group, Chemo Chat. Using Chemo Chat as a Facebook community provides me the opportunity to add a level of confidentiality by keeping the group closed, or private. This means that the only users who can view any of the group content are the Chemo Chat members.

When reviewing the posts of other group members, you may not feel comfortable discussing personal health information. To minimize this risk and ensure confidentiality, Chemo Chat has been designed as an invitation-only, or closed group, which means that only the administrator, Emily Garber, and all other invited group members can view the posts. All other Chemo Chat group members are current chemotherapy patients. The data gathered for this capstone project will be used for a final project presentation to the graduate faculty and graduate students of the University of West Florida’s Department of Communication Arts.

In order to participate, please log on to your Facebook profile and request to become a member of Chemo Chat, at http://www.facebook.com/groups/chemochat/

You must also sign the Informed Consent to Participate in Research Study form, which can be accessed at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YC0XtvUtFKKD6AmzOWh0IK9UJzPwNs3-hmD… and e-mail the signed document to the administrator, at eag20@students.uwf.edu

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Could you please-please-please get around enabling the system to let a person "subscribe" to all new discussions under any particular Discussion Forum category? There are probably dozens of questions every month I could try to contribute to if only I were alerted to them. (I rarely have time to manually hunt for them in a timely way by "surfing" web pages.)

I'm sure you can think of many reasons why it would be hard to do and why things seem fine as they are. I'd rather hear about "what it would take" to enable that ability, since sometimes the difficult becomes do-able after thinking through it (with compromises for less than 100% perfection or reliability). . . . For starters, please consider it for the New Questions inbox.

Best hopes,

Craig

My name is Alex Reitemeier,
I’m a psychology student at Nottingham Trent University doing some research into cancer. I want to find out if other people’s reactions to a person’s cancer shapes and changes their self-perception. I have emailed and gotten permission from Dr. West from this websight to create this forum.
My topic is ‘Cancer patients and the feeling of ‘otherness’.
My theory is that other people’s perceptions of cancer can influence the patient. I believe that there is an overlap between self-perception and other’s perception. My research aim is to explore this overlap and look into the effects of other people’s attitudes an beliefs can have on a patient with cancer.
I am asking for volunteers to answer three questions related to my hypothesis: “cancer patients experience something known as otherness once they have been diagnosed with cancer, this feeling is influenced by the attitudes of people around them”
If you choose to participate then I will send you the three questions to answer, the first is about your own cancer, the second is other’s reactions to your cancer and the third is how that affects you.
All information collected will remain confidential and will be seen only by myself and the exam board when my coursework is handed in. If you wish to remove your information you may contact me on the email below at any time and I will of course remove it straight away.
If you are interested in taking part in my research please let me know on this forum.
and email me on alexandra.reitemeier2011@my.ntu.ac.uk I will send the brief and questions by return email. If you wish to participate but want to remain anonymous then create a new email account (e.g. participant1@gmail.com) to contact me on.
I very much appreciate your efforts if you do decide to participate,
Thank you
Alex Reitemeier

Update: You can now edit your Profile Info, Nickname, Avatar, Email, Bio & Signature on the same page. See this Tip post for instructions.

Let me know if you have any questions about these tips.

Cheers,

-Mark

For those who might be interested, I just posted a brief video explaining why I feel that repeat biopsies shouldn't be considered as a standard of care for patients with progressing NSCLC, particularly with regard to those patients with a "driver mutation" and acquired resistance to a targeted therapy. Here's the post:

http://cancergrace.org/lung/2012/12/15/repeat-biopsies-vi/

I'd be very interested in people's opinions, here and/or as a comment on the post itself.

-Dr. West

I hate to seem so dense, but I have tried to allow my bio information to show when I post or answer questions. I just don't understand how this works with the new format. Could the webmaster just change this in my profile or tell me how to do it. Thank you.

Is it possible to upload a PDF onto the site? Forgive me if this is an obvious question. Many thanks.

Stephanie Spar 1956-2012

http://outlivinglungcancer.com/tag/stephanie-spar/
http://blatherwatch.blogs.com/the_taffy_times_/