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Expert-mediated info on current cancer management options to empower all to be partners in their cancer care. www.cancergrace.org

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4d ago

Who may benefit from CAR T-cell therapy or bispecific antibodies—and what can patients expect from these treatments? Join us for Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 and hear from Supreet Kaur, MD. Dr. Kaur will discuss these rapidly evolving treatments for aggressive B-cell lymphomas,+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 5d ago

Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 was created to make expert information more accessible to patients, caregivers, and the broader blood cancer community. No medical background is needed. Our faculty will present information in a clear, patient-centered format.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · last wk.

What is minimal residual disease (MRD), and how can testing help guide care for patients with lymphoma and leukemia? Join us for Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 and hear from Shivani Handa, MD, as she explains what MRD tests are, how they are used today, and...+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · last wk.

Join the live Q&A and submit your questions in real time. Do you have questions about blood cancer treatment, emerging therapies, or patient care? Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 will include a live Q&A where attendees can submit questions and hear answers directly from leading medical professionals.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 2w ago

Only three weeks until Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026! Whether you are a patient, caregiver, survivor, advocate, or someone seeking reliable information about blood cancer, we invite you to join this free virtual event.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 New Podcast! "Communication and Catharsis, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026 #4.1" on @Spreaker #cancer #catharsis #clinical #communication #grace #life #lung #nsclc #sclc #trials #writing

Communication and Catharsis, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026 #4.1

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. After her prognosis in the spring of 2024, LuAnne Sirdiak started writing. Not for herself, and not for the world — she created a private Facebook group called Life!, and invited people in. For three years she has documented the scans, the treatments, the waiting, and everything in between, for a group she chose. Music: Ester - Here (BenSound) License certificate #2242649

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 2w ago

Join us for Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 and hear from Brandon Blue, MD, of Moffitt Cancer Center. Dr. Blue will discuss multiple myeloma treatment from diagnosis through relapse, including the rapidly expanding role of CAR T-cell therapy and bispecific and trispecific immunotherapies.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 3w ago

Meet the event chair for Blood Cancer OncTalk 2026: Dr. Yumeng “Julia” Zhang. Dr. Zhang will lead this live, interactive program featuring presentations and panel discussions with leading blood cancer specialists.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reliable information can help patients and caregivers feel better prepared for conversations about treatment and care. At Blood Cancer OncTalk 2026, leading oncologists will share clear, patient-centered information about current and emerging treatment options—and answer audience questions live.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣 New Podcast! "Qualifying for Clinical Trials, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026" on @Spreaker #cancer #clinical #education #grace #lung #nsclc #qualifying #treatment #trial

Qualifying for Clinical Trials, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. LuAnne Sirdiak spent a year waiting for her cancer to grow enough to qualify for a clinical trial. When she got in, she stayed on treatment longer than anyone else — long enough that her results changed how the trial was run. This is the final part of my conversation with LuAnne. We talk about what being in a trial did to her, and what it gave her: the say she had in her own treatment, the dose decisions she was part of, and what it means to her that the data from her body may help the people who come after. And we talk about the question every patient considering a trial eventually has to answer for themselves — knowing everything she knows now, and where she is today, would she do it again.

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣 New Podcast! "Communication and Catharsis, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026" on @Spreaker #cancer #clinical #grace #life #lung #nsclc #sclc #trials

Communication and Catharsis, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. After her diagnosis, LuAnne Sirdiak started writing. Not for herself, and not for the world — she created a private Facebook group called Life!, and invited people in. For nine years she has documented the scans, the treatments, the waiting, and everything in between, for a group she chose. Here's part four of my conversation with LuAnne.

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

Join us for Blood Cancers OncTalk 2026 Join Dr. Yumeng “Julia” Zhang and leading oncologists for a free, live, virtual event featuring patient-centered presentations and panel discussions about current and emerging blood cancer treatments.+

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣 New Podcast! "Family, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026" on @Spreaker #clinical #diagnosis #family #nsclc #sclc #trial

Family, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. There's a part of a cancer diagnosis that doesn't get talked about much — the work of carrying other people's feelings about it. The reassuring, the softening, the deciding what to say and what to keep to yourself. LuAnne Sirdiak knows that work from both sides.She was a sister before she was a patient, and She was caring for her sister who had small cell lung cancer when she received her own diagnosis.  Here's part three of my conversation with LuAnne.

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣 New Podcast! "Liminal Space, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026" on @Spreaker #cancer #clinical #liminal #lung #nsclc #squamous #treatment #trial

Liminal Space, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. There's a word for the place LuAnne Sirdiak has been in quite a lot. Liminal — the space between what was and what comes next, when the thing you were doing has ended and nothing has taken its place yet. For LuAnne, that's time off a clinical trial with no treatment on the calendar, and no clear picture of what's ahead.In our first conversation, she walked through her years of lung cancer treatment — the surgery, the radiation, the prognosis she outlived, the trials. This time we talk about what it's like to live without a plan. We talk about how cancer has changed her life, about loneliness — the particular kind that comes from being the only person in the room who understands your situation — and about what kind of support she's looked for, and what has helped. Here's the 2nd episode of my conversation with LuAnne.

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cancergrace@cancergrace.bsky.social · 4w ago

📣 New Podcast! "My Cancer Journey, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026" on @Spreaker #cancer #clinical #communication #nsclc #squamous #trial

My Cancer Journey, LuAnne Sirdiak, GRACE Clinical Trials Storytelling 2026

In this series, the 2025-26 Clinical Trials Experiences Through Storytelling Program, we talk to cancer survivors who have a passion for telling their stories in order to help others who may be navigating the clinical trials experience. In 2017 Luanne Sirdiak was diagnosed with squamous non small cell lung cancer. She had a lung resection and four cancer free years. Then the cancer came back, resistant to radiation, resistant to several lines of systemic therapy, with no actionable biomarkers to point toward what to try next. For nine months, there were no treatment options at all. In 2023, she was given a six month prognosis. In 2024, Luanne qualified for a clinical trial and completed nine cycles of targeted treatment.  She went on to complete eleven cycles on the CCI-001 trial at the Cross Cancer Institute. She's not on a trial right now and that too is part of this experience. The waiting, the qualifying, the starting and the stopping. She's lived the full arc of the clinical trials process and she wants other patients to hear it in her words. Here's the first in the series of my conversations with Luanne.

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