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Introducing
a new Vital Options video production that supports and highlights
the objectives and issues facing the cancer advocacy
community
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Advocacy in
Action
Thank you to all of you
in the cancer advocacy community for a fantastic turnout at the
first annual Advocacy in
Action program at the recent meeting of the American Society
of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, IL. Video from the event is
now online and available for viewing and posting on your websites!
Please click here to watch
the videos.
Discussion titles are:
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Patent Centered Care
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How Important is Language?
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Who is Going to Pay?
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The Future of Cancer Research
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Clinical Trials & the Institute of Medicine (IOM)
Report
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New Media & Technology
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Navigating the Social Media Landscape
If you recorded a special introduction for your organization,
please stay tuned. We will be sending out the personalized video
players for your websites shortly! Should you wish to obtain video
for purposes other than website posting, please contact us so we
can assist you.
These videos are also posted on the Vital Options YouTube
Channel.
In addition to AIA content, below is information about the
clinical interviews which you are also invited to post on your
websites.
Advocacy
in Action at ASCO was made possible, in part, through
support by Genentech BioOncology, Lilly Oncology and Novartis
Oncology.
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The Group
Room Feature Video
Interviews
The Group
Room at ASCO 2010 marks its transition into a full video
format and is now available to your organizations for posting. Watch this year's special feature
interviews here (click on The Group
Room tab).
- Lung cancer
with Ronald H. Blum, MD,
Professor of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
Director, Cancer Centers and Programs, Beth Israel Medical Center
and St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, NYC; ASCO Chair-Elect,
Education Products Subcommittee; Cancer.Net Specialty Editor
- Breast cancer and
ASCO highlights with Eric
P. Winer, MD, Thompson Senior Investigator in Breast Cancer
Research, Director, Breast Oncology Center, Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston,
MA; Immediate Past Chair of ASCO's Cancer Communications
Committee
- Gastrointestinal and
ovarian cancers with Jennifer C. Obel, MD, Medical
Oncologist, NorthShore University Health System, Assistant Clinical
Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Member
of ASCO's Cancer Communications Committee
- Prostate and
urologic cancers with Nicholas J. Vogelzang, MD, Vice
Chair SWOG GU committee, Chair and Medical Director, Developmental
Therapeutics and Member, GU Committee, US Oncology Research,
Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; Member of
ASCO's Cancer Communications Committee
The Group Room feature interviews
were made possible, in part, through support from Lilly Oncology
and Novartis Oncology
The Group
Room Lung Cancer Mini
Features
Also check out The Group
Room's special lung cancer series from ASCO,
with:
- Paul A. Bunn, Jr., MD, Director
of the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Denver, James Dudley
endowed Chair of Cancer Research and Professor of Medicine of the
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO;
Executive Director of the International Association for the Study
of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the Association of American Cancer
Institutes (AACI); and
- Bruce E. Johnson, MD, Professor,
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Director, Lowe
Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston,
MA.
- Joan Schiller, MD, Professor and
Chief of the Hematology/Oncology Division, and Deputy Director of
the Simmons Cancer Center, at University of Texas Southwestern,
Dallas, TX;
The Group Roommini features were made possible through
support from Novartis Oncology.
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Introducing OncoTalk!
A new series of interviews under the banner of OncoTalk was
introduced this year at ASCO with leading oncology experts and
included topics such as:
- Managing cancer related fatigue
- Chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)
- Vitamin D
- Cancer care costs
- Sex and the Survivor
- Cancer care costs
Stay tuned for additional interviews addressing colorectal,
prostate, lung, women's cancers, sex and the survivor, fatigue, and
other topics. Those will be available to you in the coming weeks
and you'll receive an announcement soon!
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 About Vital Options
International
Founded in 1983 as the first
organization for young adults with cancer, Vital Options is now a
cancer communications organization, serving all age groups and
cancer types with a mission to facilitate a global cancer
dialogue. Headquartered in Southern California, its European
program is based in France at the American Hospital of Paris, with
production partners at Radio Marsden, the Royal Marsden Hospital,
London, UK.
Contact us for more
information.
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