Outspoken Oncology

Leah Sera (@leah_sera), PharmD, MA, BCPS, associate professor of pharmacy practice and science, University of Maryland, shares the details and her role as the Program Director of the University’s Master’s program in Medical Cannabis. She details how cannabis can be used as a medicine to treat conditions such as pain, nausea, and muscle spasms, and she also explains the difficulty in researching cannabis in a clinical setting.

View Leah Sera's faculty profile https://faculty.rx.umaryland.edu/lsera/

View the University of Maryland's Master's program in Medical Cannabis https://shadygrove.umd.edu/academics/degree-programs/ms-medical-cannabis-science-and-therapeutics

Chadi sits down with a survivor of ovarian and breast cancer as well as her physician — a key advocate for a survivorship program at Advocate Healthcare System. The trio discuss the fault in the term “survivor” and why many patients reject this label, training that physicians need to better counsel patients on survivorship and everyday life, and the level of psychological and financial support that these patients need at every intersection of their journey.

Chadi sits down with a survivor of ovarian and breast cancer as well as her physician — a key advocate for a survivorship program at Advocate Healthcare System. The trio discuss the fault in the term “survivor” and why many patients reject this label, training that physicians need to better counsel patients on survivorship and everyday life, and the level of psychological and financial support that these patients need at every intersection of their journey.

Jack West (@JackWestMD), MD, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Nathan Pennell (@n8pennell), MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, debate the results of the ADAURA trial presented as a plenary session at the 2020 ASCO virtual meeting, especially the extrapolation from DFS to OS, balance of chemotherapy administration in the treatment arms, lumping of varying disease stages in treatment arms, and severity of toxicity issues.

Jack West (@JackWestMD), MD, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Nathan Pennell (@n8pennell), MD, PhD, Cleveland Clinic, debate the results of the ADAURA trial presented as a plenary session at the 2020 ASCO virtual meeting, especially the extrapolation from DFS to OS, balance of chemotherapy administration in the treatment arms, lumping of varying disease stages in treatment arms, and severity of toxicity issues.

Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, director of the leukemia program, Cleveland Clinic, and esteemed author, essayist, and op-ed writer, discusses his latest work “When Blood Breaks Down” and the human interactions with leukemia patients that set the backdrop for discussions in the book.

Read Chadi's review of the book at https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/07/02/when-blood-breaks-down-it-can-break-your-heart/

Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, director of the leukemia program, Cleveland Clinic, and esteemed author, essayist, and op-ed writer, discusses his latest work “When Blood Breaks Down” and the human interactions with leukemia patients that set the backdrop for discussions in the book.

Read Chadi's review of the book at https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/07/02/when-blood-breaks-down-it-can-break-your-heart/

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, scholar in residence, school of medicine, Stanford University, discusses “stereotype threat” and the challenges that women face when training to become surgeons, methods of researching gender inequity and bias in medicine, and bias against foreign medical graduates.

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD, scholar in residence, school of medicine, Stanford University, discusses “stereotype threat” and the challenges that women face when training to become surgeons, methods of researching gender inequity and bias in medicine, and bias against foreign medical graduates.

Chadi checks in with Graham Collins, David Steensma, and Vincent Rajkumar to discuss the most prevalent and noteworthy clinical research from the EHA meeting for Hodgkin lymphoma, MDS and AML, multiple myeloma, and DLBCL.