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Cesar A. De Las Casas, MD, MPH, board-certified hematologist and oncologist. He earned his medical degree from the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima in 1994. He completed his internship in internal medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine in 1999, serving as Chief Medical Resident at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston and at Ben Taub Hospital in 1999 and 2000.
Not Your Father's Squamous Lung Cancer - Supportive Care for Patients
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Presented by the
Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education
in collaboration with
UNC Lineberger and the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina
On Friday, November 4th, 2016, in collaboration with the UNC Lineberger and the Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina, GRACE presented 'Not Your Father's Squamous Lung Cancer', webcast live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Our fourth and final presentation discusses supportive care for patients, including pain management, drug side effects, anorexia and shortness of breath, with Amber Procter, PharmD, and Jason Akulian, MD, MPH. 
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