Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center was pleased and humbled by the overwhelming response to their inaugural Edward M. Kovach Cura Personalis Lecture held earlier this summer featuring Dr. John Marshall and America’s own Katie Couric where they discussed the the healing power of communication.
The Cancer Caregiver Action Plan was developed based on conversations with fellow caregivers who asked for a way to ‘pay it forward’ — a way to help other caregivers by providing real world perspective and insight into the caregiver journey.
Gastric (stomach) cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the lining of the stomach. The stomach is in the upper abdomen and helps digest food.
Catch up on our investigator-initiated clinical trials. Ruesch Center faculty and their NIH collaborators are really making an effort to change the standard of care.
Time Counts is supporting individuals caring for a loved one by asking society to give time to connect with a caregiver.
In this webinar, part five of our Transforming Trial Participation webinar series, we will discuss setting course for Alliance’s new strategic initiative to improve clinical trial participation.
In this webinar, part four of our Transforming Trial Participation webinar series, we will discuss pushing the “lever:” Where are the “sweet spots” for realistic improvement around GI cancers trial accrual.
In this webinar, part three of our Transforming Trial Participation webinar series, we will discuss 10 common approaches that actually discourage patient participation in trials.
Watch the replay of part 2 in the Transforming Trial Participation webinar series where we discuss what makes it so hard to increase patient participation in trials from three perspectives.
Ghassan Abou-Alfa, M.D., a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the basics of clinical trials, and why participation in them is important.