Leiomyosarcoma with Dr. Suzanne George Sarcoma Sisters

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 is the Link to the Count Me In Leiomyosarcoma Project music: Rosepigg
photo:  nine koepfer