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Janine Thompson, MEd., GRACE Community Outreach Team
Global Resource for Advancing Cancer Education
Birmingham
AL
Janine taught school from 1991 to 2012. She was a special education instructor, advisor and life coach at The Horizons School for young adults in Birmingham, AL for 12 years. Janine also taught as the assistant teacher in Group 5 (4th/5th grade) at the Westland School in Los Angeles, CA. Janine earned a Master of Education and state teacher certification from the University of California in Los Angeles in 1991. Janine’s husband, Don was diagnosed with a pancoast tumor of squamous NSCLC in 2009. After curative doses of concurrent chemo and radiation a tumor on the spine then months later a tumor in the other lung was found but biopsies were undiagnosable and treatments continued until 2012. As of today, Don is NED and living life. Janine began visiting the Grace website in 2009 seeking information about her husband’s disease and hasn’t yet left because she understands the important link the forum makes between information and the individual.
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GRACE is celebrating our 10th year!
In recognition, we would like to introduce you to the staff and board members who are so deeply involved in bringing GRACE to life. In this video, we introduce Janine Thompson.
Dr. H. Jack West and the GRACE community have been helping each other since before that time but in this 10th year as a non-profit, we are pleased and humbled by the feedback and graciousness of those we have the pleasure to work with, and those who have found help and support through our GRACE site.
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The final videos from the Blood Cancers OncTalk live webinar event on October 25, 2025 are now complete!
A special thank you goes to one of our sponsors: Bristol Myers Squibb.
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GRACE is hosting our annual Lung Cancer OncTalk on Saturday, 12/13.
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The new videos from the Basal and Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patient Education Series are now complete! A special thank you goes out to our sponsor: Regeneron!
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Original Post: Stage 4 NSCLC Ross 1 mutation
Hi James Anthony, I'm so sorry you are going through this and so very young. It' s true that some
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Original Post: Worried about a pancoast tumor
Hi siigs, I'm sorry you're having health issues. They don't sound like pancoast tumor symptoms. A
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Original Post: 2025 Blood Cancers OncTalk, Oct 25 10:30 AM (PDT)
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Original Post: 2025 Blood Cancers OncTalk, Oct 25 10:30 AM (PDT)
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If you at all need to learn about treating blood
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Original Post: Lung cancer onctalk 2024 on demand
Hi Lonnie,
Yes, the info in last year's OncTalk was up to date at that moment. I think it would be