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April 2019
Taking Your Pills on Schedule: Its Importance in Treating Cancer
Watch a recording of the online webcast HERE CancerCare Connect® Education Workshops are a cost-free way to learn about cancer-related issues from the convenience of your home or office. Leading experts in oncology provide the most up-to-date information on the telephone and online. This workshop is for patients and their families, partners, caregivers, and friends who are interested in learning more strategies for managing a cancer diagnosis by taking medications on schedule.
Find out more »Balancing Work & Cancer Webinar: Working Through Treatment
Once you have decided to work through treatment, it’s important to create a plan and think through the various steps that you can take to make the process as smooth as possible. During this webinar we will discuss how to do this, covering topics that include: What and whom to tell when disclosing a cancer diagnosis in the workplace Workplace laws that protect patients at both the federal and state levels and how to use them How to arrange reasonable…
Find out more »LBBC’s 2019 Conference on Metastatic Breast Cancer
Our Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference provides you with the information, support and practical resources you need to make decisions for your physical and emotional health. Gather with hundreds of other women and men to learn more about living well – physically, emotionally and spiritually – with metastatic breast cancer. At the conference you will find sessions on the latest medical updates, communicating with loved ones, caregiving, scientific research and clinical trials, food as medicine, living with uncertainty and more!
Find out more »Triangle Metsquerade
The Triangle Metsquerade is a fundraiser for Metavivor, a non-profit organization that uses 100% of donations for metastatic breast cancer research. METAvivor is dedicated to the specific fight of women and men living with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. At the time of METAvivor’s founding, no organization was dedicated to funding research for the disease and no patient groups were speaking out about the dearth of stage 4 cancer research. While more and more people have taken up the cry for…
Find out more »Northwest Arkansas Metsquerade
The NWA Metsquerade is a fundraiser for Metavivor, a non-profit organization that uses 100% of donations for metastatic breast cancer research. This fundraiser has raised over $880,000 since 2016 including monies raised from the annual NWA Metsquerade, Annual Runway IV Reseach, and National Metaribbon Challenge, among others. The team is closing in on a $1,000,000 raised and are excited about this big milestone in fundraising. Event details TBD!
Find out more »Joys and Challenges of Pets in Your Home When You Have Cancer
Watch a recording of the online webcast HERE CancerCare Connect® Education Workshops are a cost-free way to learn about cancer-related issues from the convenience of your home or office. Leading experts in oncology provide the most up-to-date information on the telephone and online. This workshop is for patients and their families, partners, caregivers, and friends who are interested in learning more strategies for managing a cancer diagnosis while remaining a pet owner.
Find out more »Komen® Idaho Montana’s Metastatic Breast Cancer Dinner Series
The Metastatic Breast Cancer Dinner Series provides a forum for people living with metastatic breast cancer to discuss the latest in research, treatment, and symptom management with local health experts, in a small group setting. Join Komen Idaho Montana as we learn more about palliative care from Dr. William Bollinger from St. Luke’s MSTI. Free for those living with metastatic breast cancer and their guest. Registration is required. Schedule: 5:30 PM – Dinner Served 6:30-7:30 PM – Presentation, followed by Q&A
Find out more »Komen® Chicago’s 2nd Annual Metastatic breast Cancer Conference
Komen® Chicago invites those living with metastatic breast cancer, clinicians, healthcare workers and caregivers to our second Metastatic Breast Cancer Conference.
Find out more »NIH-AACR Cancer, Autoimmunity, and Immunology Conference
This meeting will focus on two issues and will include speakers from the NIH intramural and extramural communities: Understanding the biology of immune-related adverse events which have occurred in cancer patients being treated with immunotherapies and how that might inform the study of autoimmune disease. Defining the potential for the study of autoimmune disease to lead to greater understanding of the treatment and management of immune-related adverse events during and following cancer therapies.
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