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ASCO Connection • 4th September 2024

Improving Capacity for Pediatric Radiotherapy: Training Oncologists in Mexico

Finding that sweet spot between successfully targeting lymphoma and ensuring that patients and survivors can enjoy their lives is what Dr. Raymond Mailhot hopes to achieve through global oncology research.

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Conquer Cancer • 20th August 2024

Three Months at a Time: Your Stories Podcast

For Dr. Justin Grunewald, advocating for better rare cancer treatments is profoundly personal. In 2019, his wife—Gabe Grunewald, a professional distance runner—passed away after a decade of enduring multiple cancers, including adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare form of the disease.

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ASCO Connection • 25th July 2024

Evaluating the Efficacy of Supportive Care Tools for Patients With Multiple Myeloma

Compared to patients with other types of cancers, those with multiple myeloma face a drastically lowered quality of life—a reality made harder by the feelings of hopelessness and despair that can accompany an incurable diagnosis.

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Conquer Cancer • 16th July 2024

Skin Cancer 101: Spotting the Ugly Duckling: Your Stories Podcast

One day, you’re looking in the mirror when suddenly you notice it: a strange-looking mole. Naturally, you start to wonder: Could it be cancer? How can I tell? What do I do if it is? Thankfully, after decades of advancements in skin cancer research and care, these kinds of questions have answers. And yet, despite these milestones, there are many research breakthroughs that have yet to be made when it comes to skin cancer treatment.

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Your Stories Podcast • 18th June 2024

Bringing Better Cancer Care Back Home: Your Stories Podcast

All too often, the health data gathered about Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) patients is categorized too broadly, resulting in ethnic and geographic differences among these populations being overlooked. Having experienced firsthand the impact of these disparities on his own family, Dr. Kekoa Taparra dedicates his career to addressing the various challenges prevalent in NHPI cancer care.

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ASCO Connection • 5th June 2024

Diversifying Data and Addressing Disparities for Older Hispanic and Latino Patients

From language barriers to a lack of insurance, limited health care access, and financial hardships, older Hispanic and Latino patients face an onslaught of obstacles when it comes to navigating cancer care. Without diverse, insightful, nuanced health care data about Hispanic and Latino patients, particularly in older adults, providing better resources and improved outcomes becomes even more difficult. This is exactly the problem that Fernando Diaz, MD, hopes to address.

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Your Stories Podcast • 21st May 2024

Why Hasn't Cancer Been Cured?: Your Stories Podcast

It's easy to confuse the idea of curing a disease with that of eradicating it. There are misconceptions about what it means to cure cancer, driven by a variety of historical and sociocultural factors. Dr. Otis Brawley, a former chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, joins this episode of the Your Stories podcast to help set reasonable expectations around what the possibilities are for treating, managing, and conquering cancer.

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ASCO Daily News • 8th May 2024

First-Time Research Funding for a Rare Type of Kidney Cancer Opens the Door to New Trials

Patients with rare and aggressive kidney cancers—like renal medullary carcinoma (RMC)—have long faced limited treatment options and poor survival rates. Pavlos Msaouel, MD, PhD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has long aimed to resolve this problem through clinical and translational research.

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Your Stories Podcast • 16th April 2024

Stopping the Stigma: Your Stories Podcast

Esophageal cancer. Testicular cancer. Lung cancer. Cervical cancer. Colon cancer. What do each of these diseases have in common? They’re all heavily stigmatized. Some are associated with portions of the anatomy typically considered private. Others are linked to causes that result in blame and criticism directed at the patient. In any case, patients with stigmatized diseases face challenges that go beyond care.

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Your Stories Podcast • 19th March 2024

A Collaborative Approach to an Uncommon Cancer: Your Stories Podcast

Shock. Fear. Uncertainty. Isolation. These are just a few of the many emotions that patients may feel upon receiving any cancer diagnosis, let alone an ultra-rare form of the disease. Katie Coleman is no stranger to this experience or any of the feelings attached to it. At 29, she was diagnosed with metastatic oncocytoma, an extremely rare kidney tumor.

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ASCO Connection • 12th March 2024

Dr. Kamal Menghrajani on Advancing Leukemia Research and Participating in the Biden Cancer Moonshot

An endowed grant from Conquer Cancer provided Dr. Menghrajani with protected research time in the lab. It also inspired her to pursue leadership and public service opportunities in cancer care.

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ASCO Connection • 12th March 2024

Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, Provides an Endowed Future for Oncology Research and Cancer Care

By providing a ceaseless stream of funding, endowed grants ensure that oncology research and programs don’t fall victim to economic pressures and funding limitations. Here, a group of Conquer Cancer donors reflect on what drove them to endow a Young Investigator Award.

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ASCO Connection • 12th March 2024

Impact Stories: Empowering Innovation and Delivering Meaningful Results in Cancer Care

To accelerate scientific breakthroughs, enhance health equity, and improve patient outcomes for all, Conquer Cancer supports some of the most promising oncology research and programs around the world. This includes supporting efforts that advance not only research, but also continuing education for oncology providers and promotion of the highest-quality, equitable patient care.

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Your Stories Podcast • 20th February 2024

The Woman Whose Cells Lived On: Your Stories Podcast

Until just 10 years ago, few people knew of the late Henrietta Lacks, let alone the lasting impact her cells would have on medicine and healthcare, including cancer research. Before Lacks passed away from cervical cancer at age 31, her biological materials were harvested for decades of research without her knowledge or consent.

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Your Stories Podcast • 16th January 2024

"So Much to Do": Your Stories Podcast

Today, Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is a globally recognized neurosurgeon. Making that happen, however, took a lot of sacrifice and perseverance. The eldest of six children, a young Alfredo sold food at gas stations to help support his family. But he wanted to dream bigger: At 19, he left his native Mexico in hopes of a better future.

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ASCO Connection • 20th December 2023

Addressing Cancer Disparities for Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander Patients Through Machine Learning

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities have some of the lowest rates of inclusion in clinical trials and cancer research. The resulting lack of NHPI cancer data leads to poorer health outcomes and fewer supportive resources for patients from these populations.

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Your Stories Podcast • 19th December 2023

A Boulder Approach to Conquering Cancer: Your Stories Podcast

Favia Dubyk has many titles: athlete, professional climber, reality show participant, competitor, physician, and cancer survivor. But when she was diagnosed with cancer during medical school, Favia’s robust athletic life was put on pause. Going through surgical treatment and chemotherapy was taxing on Favia’s health, making even just daily tasks a challenge.

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Your Stories Podcast • 21st November 2023

Co-Survivors, Part 2: Your Stories Podcast

The keynote speaker and advocacy professional behind the internet moniker “Lady Glaucomflecken” – Kristin Flanary – has been more than a caregiver to Dr. Will Flanary, her spouse and partner-in-comedy “Dr. Glaucomflecken.” She is also his co-survivor. Kristin supported Will through testicular cancer twice and was his lifeline during a sudden cardiac arrest.

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ASCO Connection • 3rd November 2023

Targeting Tumor-Protective Proteins to Improve Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

It’s infamous as a “silent disease,” with symptoms that rarely make themselves known until too late. But one Conquer Cancer-funded researcher may have found a way to improve the odds, even for patients with advanced-stage pancreatic cancer.

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Your Stories Podcast • 17th October 2023

Thinking Pink and Beyond: Your Stories Podcast

Today, the conversation around breast cancer has reached a level of nearly unrivaled ubiquity, thanks in large part to a huge collective of philanthropists, advocates, physicians, scientists and patients around the world who, more than 30 years ago, decided it was time—perhaps even long past time—for a change.

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ASCO Daily News • 11th October 2023

Trial Data Sharing Promotes Research Transparency and Fulfills a Promise to Patients

Patient participation in clinical trials is vital to advancing cancer research, yet few adult patients enroll in these studies. Those who do enroll give substantial time to clinical trials and take experimental drugs that may come with serious side effects, knowing their research involvement could help improve care for future patients.

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ASCO Daily News • 6th September 2023

Accelerating Local Solutions for Patients With HIV and Breast Cancer

In Tanzania, where HIV infection and breast cancer are major concerns, it’s becoming increasingly critical to research the intersection of these two diseases. This is precisely the research focus of Sarah Nyagabona, MD, MMed. She works to better understand how HIV infection affects the health-seeking behaviors of patients with breast cancer.

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ASCO Connection • 29th August 2023

From the U.S. to Brazil: Enhancing Immunotherapy for Advanced Prostate Cancers

Prostate cancer is the fourth most diagnosed cancer worldwide. While the standard treatment—androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)—targets prostate cancer even in its advanced stages, most patients rapidly develop resistance to ADT and often experience side effects like fatigue, anemia, bone loss, and erectile dysfunction.

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ASCO Daily News • 24th August 2023

Leveraging Surgery to Mitigate Lymphedema and Improve Pain Management for Patients

For patients with breast cancer, the effects of lymphedema can have a profound impact on quality of life. While sufficient research exists on the localized inflammation caused by lymphedema, few studies have explored how this condition affects the body as a whole. Even fewer—if any—have looked at how lymphedema-correcting surgeries could help. It’s a problem that Dionisia Quiroga, DO, PhD, hopes to solve.