Ask the Experts: When should I talk to my doctor about clinical trials? You and your doctor might want to consider joining a clinical trial any time you must decide about your treatment such as at initial diagnosis, upon [...]
Authors: Andrew Ciupek, PhD, Associate Director of Clinical Research; Heather Law, MA, Associate Director of Lung Cancer Registry; Shanada Monestime, PharmD, BCOP, Director of Community Engaged Research; Daniel A. Saez, MSc, Manager of LungMATCH Navigation Program 2022 was an exciting [...]
Authors: Renee Botello, MSc, Treatment and Trial Navigator; Daniel A. Saez, MSc, Manager of LungMATCH Navigation Program In 2022, the treatment landscape for lung cancer continued to evolve to provide breakthrough treatment options for people living with lung cancer. This [...]
What happens when your cancer becomes resistant to your course of treatment and progresses? That’s the question we explored in the September episode of our Lung Cancer Living Room series. Dr. David Gandara, professor emeritus and co-director of UC [...]
Author: Daniel A. Saez, MSc, Manager, LungMATCH Navigation Program One of the priorities of GO2 for Lung Cancer, alongside many other ally organizations, is to ensure that people diagnosed with lung cancer receive optimal care regardless of their background, [...]
Clinical trials can help anyone—but did you know not all groups have equal representation? A clinical trial is a research study involving people to determine the effectiveness of a new therapy, or combination of therapies. Clinical trials offer people [...]
If there is one thing we learned last year, it is that we are stronger together. Despite the ongoing pandemic in 2021, we rallied our community to help transform survivorship. We persevered and expanded vital services to meet the [...]
By Daniel A. Saez, M.Sc., Treatment and Trials Navigator, GO2 for Lung Cancer Patients often hear the words clinical trial and don’t know what to expect or sometimes even what a clinical trial is. GO2 for Lung Cancer has [...]
When you hear the doctor say the words “small cell lung cancer,” life suddenly changes. You may feel overwhelmed and grieved, lost or angry, or you may feel nothing at all. It is okay to move through all kinds [...]
Hi, I'm Anne Charity Hudley, Ph.D., the North Hall Endowed Chair in the Linguistics of African America and the former Director of Undergraduate Research for the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I study [...]