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Previously Aired Shows

Live Remote Broadcast
From the CHEST 2004 Meeting, Seattle, Washington



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  • W. Michael Alberts, MD, FCCP
    Chief Medical Officer and Professor of Oncology and Medicine, University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, Associate Center Director, Clinical Affairs, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, and President Elect-designate, American College of Chest Physicians and Chair of the Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer: ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines Panel (Pulmonologist/Critical Care)
  • Gerard Silvestri, MD, MS, FCCP
    Associate Professor Of Medicine, Medical University Of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, Editor of the chapter on noninvasive staging in both the first and second editions of Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer: ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines, and also on the writing committees of both the screening chapter, and the invasive staging chapter. (Pulmonologist/Critical Care)
  • M. Patricia Rivera, MD, FCCP
    Assistant Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of Pulmonary/CCM, Co-Director, Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Program, Co-Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Program University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Editor of the chapter on diagnosis in the first edition of Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer: ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines and now the chapter editor of Initial Evaluation & Diagnosis in the second edition (Pulmonologist/Critical Care)
  • Walter Scott, MD, FCCP
    Member and Attending Physician, Section of Thoracic Oncological Surgery, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Editor of the chapter on Treatment of Stage II NSCLC in the first edition of Diagnosis and Management of Lung Cancer: ACCP Evidence-Based Guidelines, and now chapter editor of Treatment of Stage I and Stage II NSCLC in the second edition (Thoracic Surgeon)
  • Howard (Jack) West, MD
    Medical Oncologist, Swedish Cancer Institute, Seattle, Washington

Program #455
10/24/2004

Breast Cancer Awareness Month



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  • Clifford Hudis, MD
    Chief, Breast Cancer Medicine Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York
  • Marc Silver
    Editor, U.S. News and World Report and author of 'Breast Cancer Husband: How to Help Your Wife (and Yourself) Through Diagnosis, Treatment and Beyond.'
  • Marc Heyison
    President and Co-Founder, Men Against Breast Cancer, the first national non-profit organization to provide targeted support services to educate and empower men to be effective caregivers when breast cancer strikes a female loved one, as well as target and mobilize men to be active participants in the fight against breast cancer.

Program #454
10/17/2004

Cancer in the African American Community
Including topics of sexuality, intimacy and fertility



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  • Zora Brown
    Founder and Chairperson of Cancer Awareness Program Services (CAPS) and the Breast Cancer Resource Committee (BCRC) based in Washington, DC. CAPS was organized on January 1, 1992 to institute a comprehensive cancer prevention program focusing on awareness and education targeting women, particularly women of color. Established in 1989, the goal of BCRC is to reduce the mortality rates from breast cancer among African American women by fifty percent. She is also founder of Rise, Sister, Rise, a breast cancer support group model for African American women. In 2002 Ms. Brown, along with her nieces, founded SASSi™ (Sisters Accessing Skills for Survival and Intervention) and 20+year breast cancer survivor.
  • Lovell A. Jones, Ph.D.
    Founder, Biennial Symposium Series on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer, Cofounder, Intercultural Cancer Council, Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Director, Center for Research on Minority Health, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • Dana W. Mc Ginty MD
    Private Practice, Washington DC with focus on Adult and Preventative Medicine
  • Robert L. DeWitty, Jr., MD
    Chief of Surgical Oncology and Chief of Breast Cancer Service, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC

Program #453
10/10/2004

Live Remote Broadcast
From Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, in association with The Wellness Community, West Los Angeles. In support of National Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month



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  • Leo Lagasse, MD
    Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Medicine and Vice Chairman for Clinical Affairs, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and attending physician at the Cedars-Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center and Medical Director and Co-founder, Medicine for Humanity
  • Ora Karp Gordon, MD, MS
    Staff geneticist with the GenRISK Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. She is also an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Agustin Garcia, M.D.
    Director of Breast Cancer Research at the Women's Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • Susan Lowell Butler
    A nine and one-half year survivor of simultaneous advanced breast and ovarian cancer. She is co-vice president and a founder of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, and has served on numerous National Cancer Institute review panels and consumer groups. In her professional life, Butler is a management and communications consultant in health and education.

Program #452
10/3/2004

Open Group Room*
Callers' comments and questions drive the topics



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  • Sheryl Silver
    Freelance writer and editor turned gynecologic cancer advocate. A career columnist for many years with over 1,000 of her articles published in such newspapers as the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution and employment sections of The Washington Post, Sheryl began her advocacy efforts in earnest after her beloved older sister Johanna died from ovarian cancer in August 2000 and has since created 'Johanna's Law: The Gynecologic Cancer Education and Awareness Act.'
  • Patrick J. Mansky, M.D.
    Staff Clinician and Clinical Investigator, Division of Intramural Research, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Program #451
9/26/2004

Previously aired program
Show #432: Prostate Cancer Update



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  • Derek Raghavan, MD, PhD
    Chair & Director, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Center, Cleveland, Ohio

Program #450
9/19/2004

Cancer in the Elderly Population
In association with the Geriatric Oncology Consortium



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  • Lodovico Balducci, MD
    Professor of Medicine & Oncology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, and Program Leader of the Senior Adult Oncology Program at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in Tampa, FL.
  • William B. Ershler, MD
    Director, Institute for Advanced Studies in Aging & Geriatric Medicine, Washington, DC, Chair, National Geriatrics Research Consortium, Director of the Geriatric Oncology Consortium, and is a practicing oncologist in the Medical and Surgical Group of Northern Virginia.
  • Stuart Lichtman, MD, FACP
    Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, NYU School of Medicine and an Attending in the Don Monti Division of Oncology/Hematology at North Shore University Hospital, Manhasset, New York
  • Robert S. Hauser, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
    Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Geriatric Oncology Consortium (GOC). The GOC is a new specialty research consortium which conducts research and educational programs dealing specifically with the elderly cancer population. Prior to joining the GOC in September 2002, Rob was Associate Director of Outcomes Research in the Health Economics Research and Quality of Life Evaluation Services (HERQuLES) group at Abt Associates in Cambridge, MA.

Program #449
9/12/2004

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