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The 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented live-online, featured top oncologists in their field discussing the most current and emerging...

The 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented live-online, featured top oncologists in their field discussing the most current and emerging...

The 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented live-online, featured top oncologists in their field discussing the most current and emerging...

The 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented live-online, featured top oncologists in their field discussing the most current and emerging...

Drs. H. Jack West, Joan Schiller, and Isabel Preeshagul gathered this past year (virtually) to review information presented at ASCO and ESMO 2021...

ARTICLES

From the Grace Archives | Originally Published April 9, 2010 | By Dr West | 2 Comments We talk a lot here about the strength of the evidence and the...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published September 14, 2010 | By Moderators | Leave a comment The following content is offered by the moderators...
From the Grace Archives | Originally Published September 3, 2010 | By Kelay Trentham | 4 Comments Kelay Trentham, a nutritionist with a particular...

From the Grace Archives | Originally Published September 2, 2010 | By Kelay Trentham | 6 Comments GRACE was fortunate enough to have Kelay Trentham, a...

From the Grace Archives | Originally Published September 15, 2010 | By Moderators | Leave a comment No, but this is a very common misinterpretation...

COMMUNITY FORUM

Hi there, Need help and advice: So...2016 my mother was diagnosed with primary Bowel Cancer that was resected with no recurrence to date, then in 2017...
The Targeted Therapies Patient Forum from CancerGrace.org is finally here and FREE to anyone. Originally scheduled for earlier this year our forum is...
Who couldn't use good news? From the New England Journal of Medicine, "Conclusions Selpercatinib had durable efficacy, including intracranial activity...
My husband has stage VI bone metastasis NSCLC since 2014. He is currently taking Targrisso second line and Xgeva. He recently went to the dentist...
Hi, My mother is currently on Alimta infusions ( 4th dosage), Her primary side effect since the start was severe nerve pain, which was under control...

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Pancoast Tumor

Forums

Looking for some insight as I am concerned about having a Pancoast Tumor. I am 44yr old female smoker that quit 6months ago. In July, I started to have tingling/numbness in my pinky and outside ring finger and palm of my hand.  It has been constant and has never stopped it correlates to the Ulnar Nerve. As time has progressed I am having more scapula, shoulder chest and arm pain...not constant and it's tolerable. I had a chest X-ray in April (before this began) and a cervical X-ray a few weeks ago..nothing majorly found.

GGO and FDG uptake

Hi everyone, I'm new here and I'm grateful to have found this site.I created a post a few minutes ago but I can't find it! I hope I'm not duplicating this. I was diagnosed stage 1A add no carcinoma in August 2020. I had my upper left lobe removed via VATs surgery. My tumor was 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm, adenocarcinoma, lepidic predominant with focal papillary feature.  Grade 1-2, well to moderately differentiated. At the time of diagnosis, a PET scan showed a maximum SUV of 24.2 (which I believe is extremely high).

Malignant Pleural Effusion

Hi all, I’m hoping someone can help here

I was diagnosed with stage 4 in 2018 due to a malignant pleural effusion and have been on Tagrisso ever since due to EGFR mutation. I am still on that but am trying to think ahead for when I do progress..hopefully not for a long while though.

From pretty much day 1 my consultant has warned that it is very unlikely that I will be eligible for any clinical trials due to not having a measurable tumour as the MPE is (all!) I have, no solid tumour has been seen.

Now does that mean;

Covid vaccine efficacy

Hi.  I have stage 4 NSCLC, been on Tagrisso for over a year.  I’m 72 and very healthy otherwise.  I’m fully vaccinated, but nobody - including my doctor - can tell me how well the Covid vaccine is likely to work for someone in my situation.  Where I live,  there is talk of booster shots for people on chemo, but not TKIs.  The antibody tests available are only to see if you have had Covid, not how well  the vaccine is working.  Any thoughts?  Thank you!

2020 TTF ALK SESSION - LIN - TKIs for ROS1

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Join us for the 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented Live-Online on July 17, 2021, at 10:00 am eastern time!

But meanwhile -- Videos from the 2020 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum are still available!

This past event's live-online presentations and discussions were launched by our Event Chair, Luis E. Raez, MD FACP FCCP, Member of the GRACE Board of Directors, President of the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO), and Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director at Memorial Cancer Institute.

2020 TTF ALK SESSION RAEZ Sequence of ALK Inhibitors

Video
Join us for the 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented Live-Online on July 17, 2021, at 10:00 am eastern time!

But meanwhile -- Videos from the 2020 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum are still available!

This past event's live-online presentations and discussions were launched by our Event Chair, Luis E. Raez, MD FACP FCCP, Member of the GRACE Board of Directors, President of the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO), and Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director at Memorial Cancer Institute.

2020 TTF RARE Mutations QA PANEL Qualifying for a Clinical Trial

Video
Join us for the 2021 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum, presented Live-Online on July 17, 2021, at 10:00 am eastern time!

More information is available at cancerGRACE.org. But meanwhile -- Videos from the 2020 Targeted Therapies Patient Forum are still available!

This past event's live-online presentations and discussions were launched by our Event Chair, Luis E. Raez, MD FACP FCCP, Member of the GRACE Board of Directors, President of the Florida Society of Clinical Oncology (FLASCO), and Chief Scientific Officer & Medical Director at Memorial Cancer Institute.

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