Category: Cancer
Stephanie Guarino, MD, MSHP
Lung Cancer Symposium – April 16, 2018
2 0 1 8 INAUGURAL DELAWARE LUNG CANCER SYMPOSIUM Christiana Hospital campus John H. Ammon Medical Education Center Main Auditorium The Inaugural Lung Cancer Symposium will bring together health care professionals and interested community members to exchange information about the dangers of lung cancer and share novel approaches targeted to reducing death and morbidity among […]
Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “The Future of Hospice and Palliative Care”
David Casarett, MD, MA, serves as the chief of Palliative Care Services for Duke University Health System, and chief of the Section of Palliative Care within Division of General Internal Medicine. Formerly, he was professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where he was also a faculty member of the […]
Value Institute Fall Symposium 2013 – “Matching Care to Patient and Family Needs”
Dr. Diane E. Meier is Director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), a national organization devoted to increasing the number and quality of palliative care programs in the United States. Under her leadership the number of palliative care programs in U.S. hospitals has more than tripled in the last 10 years. She is […]
Single Molecule DNA and RNA Sequencing to Detect Residual Cancer and Clonal Hematopoiesis
Dr. Druley will discuss novel strategies for single molecule DNA and RNA sequencing as a modality for characterization of clonal hematopoiesis and minimal residual disease (MRD) detection in cancer. Despite “deep sequencing,” next-generation platforms have an error rate of 0.5-1.0%, precluding straightforward sequencing for MRD, which requires sensitivity of less than 1:1,000. However, using a […]
Field Trials in Developing Countries: Lessons from the PURE Study
The PURE study assesses environmental, societal, and biological influences on obesity and chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. This presentation will describe the setup and execution of this large and complex study; key findings to date; and the possibilities and pitfalls of field-based data collection in developing countries. Dr. Rahman is […]
Differences in Patient and Physician Perceptions of Care for Patients with Myeloproliferative Neoplasms
This talk will focus on data collected from the Landmark Survey, a large survey of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs, namely essential thrombocytosis, primary myelofibrosis, and polycythemia vera) and the providers who take care of patients with MPNs. The Landmark Survey focused on quality of life issues surrounding the diagnosis of MPNs and differences in […]
Tools for Studying the Genetic Basis of a Complex Disease
Susceptibility to most common diseases is complex, and based on both genetic and environmental risk factors. This presentation will discuss basic concepts and current tools to identify and interpret genetic and epigenetic variation, and pitfalls in associating variants with disease risk. Dr. Barthold is a pediatric urologist/clinician scientist at Nemours. She completed an American Foundation […]
Applied Genomics: Next Generation Sequencing in the Clinical Field
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a disease of the genome involving many genetic alterations for disease onset. Using next generation sequencing (NGS) data generated by the NCI TARGET project from pediatric AML patients, we have developed a novel pipeline for detection of SNVs and structural variants with enhanced data integration, visualization, and prioritization scoring to […]