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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June is National Cancer Survivors Month. As with many terms used in cancer, not everyone who has incurable cancer sees themselves as a survivor if they aren't going to survive cancer, and some people
May is Brain Tumor Awareness Month.
Did you know that a brain tumor is an abnormal growth of cells in or near the brain, potentially originating in the brain itself (primary) or spreading from
May is Skin Cancer Awareness Month. Here is a playlist that includes topics such as, treatment of melanoma, prevention, risk for people of color, and self-screening. I hope you never need to go
Hi, Janine here. I'm on GRACE's Community Outreach Team.
APRIL is Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Month. I hate that any of us need to know anything about how to manage and live with a cancer
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Hi Hopish hope, Welcome to Grace. I'm sorry to know about your friend.
I reached out to one of
Hi bluesun,
I don't know of any organizations that might help. I'm so sorry to hear about your mom
Glad to help. FYI, I just edited the link, which has the agenda and links to oncologists' bios
Hi and welcome. I'm sorry you're so worried about this. We or any other entity on the web can give
Hi amitchouhan,
Welcome to Grace. At this time, there aren't any targeted therapies to treat SCLC