Leukemia CancerCare Connect Education Workshops

Leukemia CancerCare Connect Education Workshops

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Leukemia CancerCare Connect Education Workshops episodes

  • Taking Your Pills on Schedule: Why It Is So Important in Managing Cancer
    - Overview of Cancer Treatments
    - Definition of Adherence: Taking Your Pills on Schedule
    - Its Important Role in Managing Cancer
    - Barriers to Taking Your Pills
    - Practical Tips to Overcome These Barriers, Including Family, Partners & Others
    - Computer, Tablet & Phone Reminders Including Emails, Texts & Apps
    - Planning Ahead: Lead Time in Refilling Prescriptions, Weekends, Travel & Holidays
    - Communicating with Your Health Care Team about Adherence with Reminders from Your Pharmacy & Pharmacist
    - Clinical Trials on Adherence
    - The Increasing Role of Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments
    - Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology, Prepared List of Questions, Follow-Up Care & Discussion of OpenNotes
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    53 min
  • What’s New in Precision Medicine
    - Understanding Precision Medicine: Overview & Value of Precision Medicine
    - How Precision Medicine is Different from Targeted Treatments?
    - Precision Medicine’s Role in Informing Treatment Decisions: Predicting Response to Treatment
    - The Role of Precision Medicine in Deciding the Treatment for Lung Cancer, Leukemia, Colon Cancer & Prostate Cancer
    - Talking with Your Health Care Team About Precision Medicine & its Benefits
    - The Role of the Pathologist
    - OpenNotes – Asking Your Health Care Team & Pathologist to Help You Understand OpenNotes
    - How Precision Medicine Contributes to Treatment Options & Quality of Life
    - Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology & Prepared List of Questions
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    58 min
  • Updates from the 2025 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting
    - Overview of Blood Cancers
    - New Research Presented at ASH
    - Disease-Specific Treatment Updates from ASH on Leukemia, Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, & Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPN)
    - The Role of Precision Medicine & Clinical Trials
    - Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology, Prepared List of Questions & Discussion of OpenNotes
    - Key Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team about Quality-of-Life Concerns
    - Questions for Our Panel of Expert Speakers
    55 min
  • Highlights from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting — Driving Knowledge to Action: Building a Better Future
    - Treatment Updates from ASCO 2025 on Lung Cancer
    - Supportive Care Issues
    - Treatment Updates from ASCO 2025 on Colorectal Cancer
    - Quality-of-Life Concerns
    - Update on Pancreas Cancer
    - Supportive Care Concerns
    - Update on Lymphoma
    - Communicating with Your Health Care Team
    - Updates on Leukemia from ASCO
    - Managing Treatment Side Effects
    - Updates on Melanoma from ASCO
    - Wrap-Up of Part II of Highlights from ASCO
    1 hr 31 min
  • Addressing the LGBTQI+ Health Disparities Gap
    - Overview of Cancer & the LGBTQI+ Community, Including HIV & HPV
    - The LGBTQI+ Community’s Disproportionate Cancer Burden
    - Addressing the LGBTQI+ Health Disparities Gap, Including Mistrust of Health Care Providers
    - Barriers to Health Care Access, Including Discrimination
    - Health Care, Cancer Screening, Palliative & Supportive Care, Affordable Housing, Gay Men & Lesbian Cancer Issues
    - Transgender/Gender-Nonconforming People’s Cancer Concerns
    - Challenges for LGBTQI+ Caregivers
    - Social Security Disability Benefits for LGBTQI+ People Living with Cancer
    - Military Service & the LGBTQI+ Community
    - Practical, Financial, Emotional & Social Concerns
    - Cancer Resources for the LGBTQI+ Community
    - Questions to Ask Our Panel of Experts
    57 min
  • Children as Caregivers for a Loved One with Cancer
    - Definition of a Caregiver
    - What Research Tells Us About Children as Caregivers’ Well Being
    - Children as Caregivers
    - Children as Caregivers for a Sibling
    - Children as Caregivers for a Parent
    - Children as Caregivers for a Grandparent
    - Children as Caregivers for an Older Adult
    - Children as Caregivers for a Younger Adult
    - Children as Caregivers for Cancer Survivors
    - Children as Caregivers for a Friend
    - Care Coordination as a Child Caregiver
    - Coping with Holidays, Birthdays & Special Occasions
    - Managing Family, Friends & Traditions
    - The Important Role of Long-Distance Children as Caregivers
    - Practical Tips for Managing Children’s Caregivers’ Stress
    - How to Provide Support for Children as Caregivers
    - The Long Term Effects of Children as Caregivers
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    57 min
  • Diverse Populations Participating in Decisions About Your Care with Your Health Care Team
    - How Being a Member of Diverse Communities May Impact Your Access to Oncology Care, Treatment, Management of Treatment Side Effects, & Pain Management
    - What to Expect from Your Relationship with Your Health Care Team: Is Your Health Care Team Providing You with Equitable, Excellent Care
    - What to Consider When Selecting a Cancer Care Team & Treatment Facility - Languages Spoken & Diversity of the Health Care Team
    - What Is Cultural Humility & How Your Care Team Practices Cultural Humility
    - When to Seek a Second Opinion: Finding the Best Care
    - How to Request Copies of Treatment & Pathology Reports - Your Encounter Notes
    - Key Questions to Ask Your Health Care Team About Your Treatment Plan
    - How to Self-Advocate with Health Care Staff: Languages Spoken, Disability Services & Other Barriers to Health Equity
    - Health Literacy: How to Become More Knowledgeable & Satisfied with Your Care
    - Your Important Role in Shared Decision-Making
    - Tips to Communicate with Your Health Care Team to Determine if They are the Best Team for You
    - Guidelines to Improve Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology, Prepared List of Questions & Discussion of OpenNotes
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    1 hr 4 min
  • Current Perspectives on the Future of Cancer Research
    - Understanding the Future of Cancer Research & Clinical Trials
    - Increased Focus on Earlier Detection & Treatment of Cancer
    - Health Care Disparities Research
    - Enhanced Knowledge of the Molecular Portrait of Cancer
    - Artificial Intelligence (AI) Driven Approaches for Diagnosis & Treatment of Cancer
    - Microsatellite Instability (MSI): Mutations in DNA Mismatch Repair Genes – Implications for Treatment
    - Immunotherapy
    - CAR T-Cell Therapy
    - Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors & Blockade
    - Monoclonal Antibodies
    - Cancer Treatment Vaccines
    - Immune System Modulators
    - Targeted Immunotherapies
    - Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (RPT)
    - Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs)
    - Robotic Surgery
    - Additional Focus on Lifestyle, Exercise, Nutrition & Hydration
    - Increasing Role of Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    1 hr 6 min
  • Understanding How Health Care Disparities May Influence Your Cancer Treatment and Care
    - Disproportionate Burden of Cancer & Infectious Diseases on People of Color
    - Social Determinants of Health, Including Languages Spoken, Health Literacy, Culture, Race, Gender Orientation, LGBTQI+, Religion, Access to Medical Care
    - Influence of the Local & Regional Environment in Which You Live
    - How Race May Impact Your Access to Oncology Care, Treatment, Management of Treatment Side Effects & Pain Management
    - Tips to Find Your Best Care Team
    - Access to Cancer Treatment in the LGBTQI+ Community
    - The Role of Housing, Cost of Cancer Treatment & Follow-Up Care on Your Health
    - Food & Pharmacy Deserts
    - Food Insecurity: Tips to Increase Your Access to Health Promoting Nutrition
    - Job Commitments, Access, Transportation to Treatment & More
    - How Telehealth May Help in Advancing Your Health Equity
    - Tips to Cope with Health Care Disparities: Valuing Your Identity
    - Guidelines to Communicate with Your Health Care Team
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    52 min
  • What’s New in Precision Medicine
    - Understanding Precision Medicine: Overview & Value of Precision Medicine
    - How Precision Medicine is Different from Targeted Treatments?
    - Precision Medicine’s Role in Informing Treatment Decisions: Predicting Response to Treatment
    - The Role of Precision Medicine in Deciding the Treatment for Lung Cancer, Leukemia & Colon Cancer
    - Talking with Your Health Care Team About Precision Medicine & its Benefits
    - The Role of the Pathologist
    - OpenNotes – Asking Your Health Care Team & Pathologist to Help You Understand OpenNotes
    - How Precision Medicine Contributes to Treatment Options & Quality of Life
    - Guidelines to Prepare for Telehealth/Telemedicine Appointments, Including Technology & Prepared List of Questions
    - Questions for Our Panel of Experts
    1 hr 2 min

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CancerCare's free Connect Education Workshops are a way for people to learn about cancer-related issues from the convenience of their home or office. Leading experts in oncology provide the most…