SARC (Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and support of research for the prevention, treatment, and cure of sarcomas – a cancer of the bone and connective tissue of the body.
Dr. Kopp and Dr. Allen-Rhoades join Dr. Scott Okuno, SARCs Chief Medical Officer, for a conversation about the history of the Sarcoma Sisters and how they are hoping to help patients and loved ones navigate their sarcoma diagnosis through their podcast.
27 Jul 2023
Leiomyosarcoma with Dr. Suzanne George
Dr. George is a medical oncologist and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. She is the Clinical Director at the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute with over 20 years experience of treating patients throughout the world with sarcoma. She is actively involved in the clinical research and works to develop new clinical trials focusing on therapy for metastatic soft tissue sarcoma.
In this episode we discuss:
What led her into medicine, and what led her into taking care of patients with sarcoma - it included one of the first targeted therapies for a sarcoma subtype, GIST (Gastrointestinal Solid Tumor)
What is Leiomyosarcoma including how is it treated, and challenges to the current treatment paradigm
What is the Count Me In (CMI) Leiomyosarcoma (LMS) Project
What the hope is to learn from CMI LMS
How the CMI LMS project helps current and future people living with LMS
What does Dr. George see as the next big thing for treating LMS
Here (https://lmsproject.org/about) is the Link to the Count Me In Leiomyosarcoma Project
music: Rosepigg
photo: nine koepfer (https://unsplash.com/@enka80)
27 Sept 2022
Nutrition and Cancer with Kate Ueland
Kate Ueland, MS ,RD, CSO is an Assistant Professor at Bayster University where she teaches and mentors students and she practices as a dietitian at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance in Seattle, WA.
Kate also works at Fred Hutchinson Research Center in Seattle, WA as the nutrition advisor and editor for the Cook for Your Life website providing science-based guidelines, recipes, and tips to those who have been touched by cancer.
The Fred Hutch Cook For Your Life (https://www.cookforyourlife.org/) website is such an amazing resource that everyone needs to check out no matter where you are in your cancer journey!
We learn from Kate what led her into nutrition and oncology.
In this episode we touch on a many nutritional oncology topics:
Food as medicine
Foods to focus on: plant based and increasing fiber
Weight stability versus focusing on a number on the scale
Food during treatment versus survivorship
Adding evidence to the hot topics of:
Avoiding sugar
Ketogenic diet
Food deserts
Establishing healthy relationships with food
Fred Hutch Cook For Your Life (https://www.cookforyourlife.org/)
Photo credit: Anna Pelzer
Music: RosePigg
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