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Camille and Mia are joined by OsteoWarriors Elise, Penelope, Sammy and Sloane to share their experiences and tips for traveling after limb salvage surgery, amputation, and/or during treatment. They discuss navigating the airport, what the deal is with wheelchairs at the aiport, getting through TSA with a prosthesis, how to find leg room in cramped airplanes and cars, managing public transportation, tips for flying, and traveling outside the US.  Aside from learning some practical tips to make traveling a bit easier, you'll laugh at some of the travel horror stories, and get advice on how to handle Uber drivers that like to dispense medical advice, funny looks when using a wheelchair or grabbing a disabled seat, and other awkward situations.

Kevin Campbell, MD, a pediatric oncologist at Children's Mercy Kansas City and Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine discusses results from the Phase 1 study assessing the safety and toxicity of cabozantinib in combination with topotecan and cyclophosphamide for relapsed osteosarcoma and Ewing sarcoma.Dr. Kevin Campbell is a pediatric oncologist at Children's Mercy Kansas City and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.  He has an interest in clinical trials relevant to children with solid tumors, with an emphasis on neuroblastoma and sarcomas. During his training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital and now extending into his career as an attending, his research focuses on clinical outcomes for patients with high-risk or advanced solid tumors and the development and implementation of early phase clinical trials with novel agents or combinations of agents to improve outcomes.His work to advance clinical trials includes experience in multiple spheres.  He has completed specific training in the writing, development and management of early phase clinical trials and currently has a phase I clinical trial open which he developed. His work also involves the analysis of biomarkers that have been incorporated into national phase II and phase III clinical trials.

Rachel Offenbacher, MD, is an attending physician at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore (CHAM) and Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hematology, Oncology, Marrow and Blood Cell Transplantation at Montefiore Einstein. She joins us on OsteoBites to share her work on targeting urea cycle dysfunction to prevent and treat osteosarcoma metastasis.Since joining the Montefiore team, Dr. Offenbacher’s clinical focus has been pediatric sarcomas. As a member of a translational sarcoma research lab, Dr. Offenbacher is fascinated by the ability to explore the biological processes behind novel therapeutic approaches before they are used in the clinic. Her research focuses on utilizing difluoromethylornithine to prevent and treat metastatic osteosarcoma. She has seen impressive results in her in vitro and in vivo models and is working to initiate a clinical trial. She is simultaneously working on a project funded by the American Association of Cancer Research, Targeting the Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis to Treat Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma, which is demonstrating promising results. Dr. Offenbacher’s work has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and presented nationally and internationally. Dr. Offenbacher is board certified in General Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Association for Cancer Research, the Children’s Oncology Group and the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Offenbacher is also an active member of the National Pediatric Cancer Foundation. In 2020 and 2022, she won the Leo M. Davidoff Society Teaching Award; in 2022, she won the Pediatric Research Day Oral Presentation Award from CHAM. Dr. Offenbacher is a volunteer pediatric oncologist at Camp Simcha, a residential camp for children with cancer.

Camille and Mia are joined by OsteoWarriors Jasmine, Penelope and Walker to share their experiences with local control strategies to remove osteosarcoma lung metastasis, including surgery, radiation therapy, and cryoablation. They cover everything from their reaction to hearing they needed a lung surgery, how they prepared for surgery - both mentally and pro tips for how to make yourself comfortable in the hospital, managing their pain and nausea post surgery, recovery time for the different types of procedures, and their individual outcomes post procedure. In addition to hearing about their personal experiences, you'll learn about the power of escapism TV, why a spirometer can be scary, the wonders of a Da Vinci robot, and the technical term for stabby-stabby, freezy-freezy

Donghan “Mo” Yang, PhD, is a researcher in the field of data science and health informatics.  He joins us on OsteoBites to introduce the development of the Osteosarcoma Explorer (OSE), a data commons with clinical, genomic, protein, and tissue imaging data for osteosarcoma research. The OSE is one of the flagship projects cultivated within the CPRIT-funded Pediatric Cancer Data Core (Director: Yang Xie, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean of Data Science, UT Southwestern). The goal of the OSE project is to integrate publicly available and institutional osteosarcoma data of various types and share them with the research community via an interactive web interface. The OSE web portal is now accessible to the public at https://datacommons.swmed.edu/cce/ose.Dr. Yang is an Assistant Professor and a Texas Health Resources Clinical Scholar in the Quantitative Biomedical Research Center at Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, UT Southwestern Medical Center. He also serves as the Director of Biostatistics and Data Science Core at UT Southwestern. Dr. Yang’s research focuses on developing methods, platforms, and infrastructure for the management, integration, and analysis of real-world healthcare data, including electronic health records, imaging, and molecular profiling data. He has led team efforts of building data commons – comprehensive database interfaced by user-friendly web portal – for adult and childhood cancers and other diseases. He also applies advanced analytics to gain insights from these real-world data resources.

Jennifer Mack, MD, MPH from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s and Harvard Medical School join us on OsteoBites to discuss best practices for engaging patients in research and clinical trials. Dr. Mack is also part of the PE-CGS Network (Participant Engagement and Cancer Genome Sequencing) Count Me In Research Center team and she will be discussing reasons that patients may or may not want to participate in research, ways to engage patients in designing and carrying out trials., and Count Me In as one model for engaging patients.Dr. Mack received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1998. She subsequently completed her residency in Pediatrics and her fellowship in Pediatric Hematology Oncology at Boston Children's Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, MA. In 2005, Dr. Mack received a Master’s Degree in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an attending physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Director of the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at Dana-Farber, Associate Chief of the Division of Population Sciences at Dana-Farber, Associate Chief for Pediatric Oncology Population Sciences at Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s, and Faculty Vice President for the Office for Faculty Development, Professionalism, and Inclusion at Dana-Farber. She is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Her research interests are in parent-clinician and patient-clinician communication, health care equity and quality, and palliative care.