Lung Cancer Voices Lung Cancer Canada

In this episode, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price sits down with Dr Rosalyn Juergens, Medical Oncologist at the Juravinski Cancer Center in Hamilton, ON and Chair of LCC's Medical Advisory Committee.

Dr. Juergens is one of the winners of the Quality Improvement Grant aimed at elevating the care and outcomes of Canadians living with metastatic NSCLC. She chats about her ambitious research proposal focusing on opportunities for liquid vs. solid tissue biopsies in community hospitals in Central-West Ontario, and the inequities and barriers that patients in rural communities face in healthcare and in turn leading to delayed diagnosis.

The grant is offered in collaboration between Lung Cancer Canada, the Lung Health Foundation, the Quebec Lung Association, and Pfizer Canada, with up to $200,000 to be awarded.

For more information, please visit https://www.pfizer.ca/en/media-centre/the-lung-health-foundation-lung-cancer-canada-the-quebec-lung-association-and-pfizer-canada-announce-recipients-of-the-2023-national-quality-improvement-grant-program-to-support-canadians-living-with-lung-cancer

In this episode, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price sits down with Dr. Amir Safavi, final-year Radiation Oncology Resident at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Jillian Tsai, Staff Radiation Oncologist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. They preface the chat with radiation 101, describe what "oligo-" means in the context of oligoradiation, oligometastises & oligoprogression, the possibility of combining oligoradiation with other cancer treatments, and finally, the CURB research study they're working on to test whether they could use stereotactic radiotherapy to stop oligoprogression.

In this episode, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price speaks to the team of The Palliative Care Early and Systematic (PaCES) Project out of the University of Calgary: Dr. Jessica Simon, Associate Professor and Head of the Division of Palliative Medicine; Lisa Shirt, RN, Clinical Nurse Specialist; and Tim Monds, stage 4 lung cancer survivor.

What is the PaCES project, the benefits of early palliative care for lung cancer patients, and are there plans to get this project going outside of Alberta?

Learn more about the PaCES program at https://cumming.ucalgary.ca/research/paces-project

In the second episode of our "Research in Canada" series, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price meets with Dr. Enam Alsrayheen, Health Outcomes Scientist at Cape Breton Regional Hospital, who is a recipient of the 2023 Geoffrey Ogram Memorial Research Grant. Dr. Alsrayheen speaks about her research implementing a community lung clinic in the rural areas of Cape Breton, and the accessibility barriers these resolve for Canadians.

In the first episode of our "Research in Canada" series, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price speaks with Dr. Alison Wallace, Thoracic Surgeon and Associate Professor, Dalhousie University, recipient of a 2023 Lung Ambition Award. Dr. Wallace speaks about her research project focused on improving female patients’ quality of life when undergoing lung cancer surgery.

For more information about the 2024 Lung Ambition Awards, visit www.lccresearch.ca

In this episode, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price sits down with Dr. Vishal Navani, Medical Oncologist at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, and Dr. Andrea Fung, Thoracic Medical Oncologist in Kingston Health Sciences Centre. They chat about the latest developments in lung cancer research at the 2023 ESMO conference in Madrid, Spain this past October.