Showing posts with label clinical trial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clinical trial. Show all posts

Thursday, June 6, 2019

Education Sessions related to Communication at #ASCO19

I chose to attend two education sessions that dealt with communication. One Professional Development education session on Friday titled Tweets Chats and Posts: Using Social Media to Transcend Boundaries and Create Opportunities for Patients and the other a Pediatric Education session on Monday titled Navigating a New Cancer Diagnosis : Guiding Communication and Education. Below are some tweets and comments on each session

5/31/2019 Tweets Chats and Posts: Using Social Media to Transcend Boundaries and Create Opportunities for Patients 

Dr Subbiah, A Big World Made Small Using Social Media to Optimize Patient Care
I have followed Dr Subbiah on Twitter for a few years now so it was very nice to meet her in person.Dr Subbiah spoke on how to use Social Media effectively.




Dr Meisel, Using Social Media to Improve Clinical Trial Access and Opportunities
Dr Meisel mentioned how some health care providers may see social media as one more thing to do in their already busy day but went on to show the benefits of participating in social media such as recruiting for clinical trials. 
Dr Hamilton, The Metastatic Breast Cancer Project

 Dr Knoll, The Patient Perspective : Improving Patient Engagement in Clinical trials

6/3/2019 Navigating a New Cancer Diagnosis : Guiding Communication and Education

Dr Dobrozi Multidisciplinary Communication and Education Milestones Following a Cancer Diagnosis
Dr Mack Communication a New Cancer Diagnosis : From the Lense of the Patient and Caregiver


Dr Rosenberg Novel Approaches to Enhance the Educational Process and IMprove Patient Engagement

Some of the best advice to health care providers I heard at ASCO. 

Dee
Every Day is a Blessing!
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

LIvES study ‐ GOG 0225

Attention all ovarian cancer survivors.
Here is a clinical trial that I recommend you participate in. It is through clinical trials that we learn more about our disease, ways to possibly prevent it ,  reduce our risk for it or treat it.

GOG 0225

Lifestyle for oVarian Cancer Enhanced Survival also called the LIvES Study is supported by the National Cancer Institute and the Gynecologic Oncology Group and is a multi-center study. This phase III trial will recruit 1070 ovarian cancer survivors . The primary objective is:
" To determine if patients who are disease-free after successfully completing primary and potential consolidation/maintenance therapy for stage II, III, or IV ovarian epithelial, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer and who are randomized to a healthy lifestyle intervention, will have significantly increased progression-free survival when compared with similar patients who are randomized to usual care."The study will also assess nutrients in the participants blood.

The study is open to:
Ovarian , fallopian and primary peritoneal cancer survivors stages II-IV
Women who have completed treatment within the last 6 weeks to 4 months for initial diagnosis of the disease
Women with no evidence of persistent or recurrent disease
Women with no history of another chronic illness
Women willing to fill out questionnaires and be contacted to answer questions by phone

You will:
Be assigned to either the control or intervention group
Be asked to modify your diet and physical activity if assigned to the intervention group
Be asked to fill out a daily Lifestyle Journal if assigned to the intervention group
Participate for 24 months
Fill out a questionnaire 4 times, provide blood 4 times and wear a pedometer
Be available for telephone coaching 22- 33 times over the 2 year time period

Click here for complete information on the NCI site.

At the ASCO annual meeting I attended this year I heard a talk about a similar study for breast cancer patients and am happy to see a study being run for ovarian cancer. If I qualified (I don't because I had a recurrence and out of treatment for too long) I would definitely like to participate.

Please check the site and see if you are eligible.



Dee
Every Day is a Blessing!
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Monday, November 7, 2011

Clinical Trial in NJ to Screen for Ovarian Cancer


There is no screening test for ovarian cancer. A Pap test does not screen for ovarian cancer. But you can help change that.

Brian Slomovitz, MD works at The Women's Cancer Center at the Carol G Simon Cancer center. I've met and spoken to Dr Slomovitz about his research, most recently at the ASCO meeting in Chicago in June. Currently, he is running a clinical trial evaluating blood and urine for the screening of ovarian cancer. Post-menopausal women between 50 and 74 with at least one ovary , a health care provider and who has not been under cancer treatment for the past 12 months may participate.

If you fit those criteria will you participate and help find a screening test? Call 973-971-6491 or e-mail Ovarian.Screening@atlantichealth.org

Click on the photo above for more information.

Dee
Every Day is a Blessing! Thank you Dr Slomovitz for your research into finding a screening test for ovarian cancer.
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