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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Hello All,
Our Lung Cancer OncTalk is available on demand.
It's packed with up to date info (Dec. 14, 2024) on SCLC and NSCLC.
Take care,
Janine
The Lung Cancer OncTalk 2024 is a live, virtual, interactive patient education event that includes presentations and panel discussions covering general subjects relevant to lung cancer and treatment
A special thank you goes out to our sponsors Lilly Oncology, Janssen and Merck for helping make the 2024 Blood Cancers OncTalk possible!
https://cancergrace.org/post/blood-cancer-onctalk-2024
A special thank you goes out to our sponsor Daiichi-Sankyo for helping make the 2024 Spanish Targeted Therapies Forum possible!
https://cancergrace.org/post/spanish-targeted-therapies-forum-2024
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Comments
Hey Bluebird,
I understand being too busy taking care of business, but I'm glad you're moving
Hi Stan,
It's so good to hear you and yours are doing well and that you were able to spend time
I could not find any info on the combination almonertinib and Capmatinib so there is no way to
Hi happybluesun,
I'm glad your mom has done well but hate to hear about the new progression. There