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8/11/2010
Metastatic Breast Cancer: Living Your “New Normal” Every Day
Speakers: Neal Niznan, LCSW; Carrie Tompkins Stricker, PhD, RN, AOCN
| What happens when breast cancer treatment never ends? Explore ways to adapt to this “new normal,” including navigating the emotional and medical impact of ongoing treatment. Learn coping skills to juggle changes to your diagnosis, treatment plan or lifestyle. Discuss the reactions of others and their impact on your energy and outlook. Hear effective communication strategies, and find ways to strengthen your ability to be flexible when faced with change. |
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5/2/2010
Rest Assured: Managing Insomnia and Fatigue
Speaker: Stacy D. Sanford, PhD
| Discover why cancer and its treatments can impact your sleep and energy level, and explore medicines and lifestyle changes that may help you get more and better rest. Hear the latest research, and learn what your healthcare team needs to know to help you get relief. |
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5/2/2010
Practical Matters: Legal and Workplace Concerns
Speaker: Rodney N. Warner, Esq
| Protect yourself by understanding the impact your diagnosis can have on your work life. Learn about state and federal laws that protect you, how to negotiate conflict, what to do in cases of suspected discrimination and ways to talk effectively with your colleagues. |
5/2/2010
Creative Coping: Healing Through Writing
Speaker: Alysa Cummings
| Explore writing as an outlet for thoughts and feelings. Through a series of exercises, learn techniques to jump-start the writing process through journaling, poetry or memoir. |
5/2/2010
Liver and Lung Mets: Treatments and Strategies
Speaker: Linda T. Vahdat, MD
| Learn about breast cancer that has spread to the liver or lungs. Explore the symptoms that may or may not be present at time of diagnosis, treatment options specific to these sites and how the location of the metastases can affect treatment choices. Understand the tests your doctors may use to monitor response to treatment, and hear about promising research including new approaches to treating and preventing metastasis. |
5/1/2010
Ask-the-Expert Panel
Speakers: Faith D. Ottery, MD, PhD, FACN; Stacy D. Sanford, PhD; Linda D. Vahdat, MD; Rodney N. Warner, Esq; Heather L. Wright, ND
| Hear how our panel of six experts - a medical oncologist, a specialist in nutritional sciences, a doctor of naturopathic medicine, a clinical health psychologist, a lawyer and a woman living with mets - answered questions from women like you. The panel addresses a variety of concerns specific to women living with metastatic breast cancer including medical and complementary therapies, symptom and side effect management and emotional and legal concerns. |
5/1/2010
A Talk with Bruce Feiler and Donna Deegan
Speaker: Bruce Feiler and Donna Deegan
| In 2008, Mr. Feiler was diagnosed with bone cancer. He will discuss how this experience inspired his book "The Council of Dad's", which explores how he prepared for the possibility his children might grow up without him. Ms. Deegan, who has been diagnosed with breast cancer several times, will share her story for coping with the disease while continuing to work as a television news anchor, raise her family and contribute to her community. |
5/1/2010
Bone Mets: Treatments and Strategies
Speaker: Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH
| Learn about standard and new therapies for bone metastases, including medicines, surgery and radiation, and the tests your doctors use to monitor effectiveness of treatment. Hear how to manage side effects, protect and strengthen bones and enhance your quality of life. |
5/1/2010
Communicating with Children about Metastatic Breast Cancer
Speaker: Joan F. Hermann, LSW
| Advanced breast cancer affects the entire family, especially young people. This workshop explores how children are impacted by a parent’s diagnosis and what they need from you to cope best. Ms. Hermann provides practical strategies for communicating honestly and effectively with your children to help them understand what’s happening and to feel safe and secure despite changes to family roles or routines. The DVD referred to in this program is "Kids Tell Kids What It's Like When Their Mother or Father Has Cancer" and is available from CancerVive at http://www.cancervive.org/dvd.html. |
5/1/2010
Confronting Tough Decisions: Using Your Inner Compass as a Guide
Speaker: Shannon Carney
| We often feel overwhelmed and unsure when confronted with decisions, big and small. Learn to better navigate through choices and flow gracefully through change by accessing the divine wisdom of your inner compass. |
5/1/2010
Managing Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Speaker: Lyndsay N. Harris, MD
| Get the emerging news on research for breast cancer that tests negative for estrogen, progesterone and HER2. Learn about standard treatments; cutting-edge therapies like PARP inhibitors and anti-angiogenic medicines; and ways to manage common symptoms and treatment side effects. |
5/1/2010
Treating Advanced Breast Cancer: Medical and Research News
Speaker: Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH
| Learn about treatments for metastatic disease, and understand how groundbreaking research could impact you. Explore treatments in the pipeline, and find out about open clinical trials that help doctors learn more about metastatic disease. |
2/28/2010
Advanced Breast Cancer: Living in the Moment to Live Fully Every Day
Speaker: Jean Rowe, LCSW
| Understanding your care and balancing ongoing treatment with daily life issues can be challenging. Explore approaches to living everyday fully while living with metastatic breast cancer. Learn coping methods to help you live with and beyond your fears and better understand how to express your needs with loved ones, co-workers and peers. |
2/27/2010
Taking Control: Managing End-of-Life Issues
Speaker: Hester Hill Schnipper, LICSW, BCD, OSW-C
| Planning ahead and managing your affairs can empower you with a sense of control and security. Ms. Schnipper will openly address end-of-life concerns and provide tools for creating a legacy, managing practical and estate planning issues and talking with your family and loved ones about your wishes. |
2/27/2010
Advanced Breast Cancer: Treatment and Research News
Speaker: Minetta C. Liu, MD
| Learn the latest medical updates used to manage metastatic breast cancer including novel treatments for specific metastases including brain, liver, lung and bone. Hear an update on clinical research and explore how to communicate effectively with your healthcare team to make the best treatment decisions for your individual goals and lifestyle. |
11/14/2009
Advanced Breast Cancer: Communicating with Your Healthcare Team
Speaker: Richard A. Michaelson, MD
| Learn how to communicate and get the best care from your healthcare team. Dr. Michaelson explains how to get the most out of time with your doctor, communicate your concerns to better understand treatment goals and quality-of-life issues and manage side effects, get answers to your “hard” questions and plan for your care. Understand when and how to get a second opinion, and learn how to utilize each member of your team to get the best support. |
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11/9/2009
Advanced Breast Cancer: Coping with Changing Emotions
Neal Niznan, MSW, LCSW
| Learn to manage the fear and uncertainty that often comes with living with metastatic breast cancer. Get information on coping strategies, and find ways to discuss difficult topics with family members and friends. Mr.Niznan also addresses the emotions that may arise when dealing with day-to-day issues or changes in treatment as well as where and how to get the support you need. |
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10/21/2009
Research and You: Understanding Clinical Trials
Speaker: Generosa Grana, MD
| Understand how to access clinical trials and who and when to ask about them. Dr. Grana explains the benefits and risks of participating in clinical trials and gives an update on trials available in metastatic breast cancer. She also discusses current research on how breast cancer metastasis develops, including brain metastasis. |
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10/20/2009
Pain Management for Early-Stage and Advanced Breast Cancer
Speaker: Erin McMenamin, CRNP, AOCN, ACHPN
| Understand strategies for pain management in both early-stage and advanced breast cancer. Erin McMenamin touches on different types of pain that may be caused by treatments, including pain after surgery, pain from radiation, neuropathy and joint pain, as well as pain related to metastatic breast cancer. She explains how to manage pain through medication, changes to your treatment plan and complementary therapies. Ms. McMenamin also explains the importance of consulting your doctor and/or a pain management specialist to develop an effective pain management plan. |
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10/14/2009
Advanced Breast Cancer Treatment Update: Medical and Quality-of-Life News
Speaker: William J. Gradishar, MD
| Dr. Gradishar talks about recent breakthrough therapies for metastatic breast cancer. Learn about clinical trials that show how a new class of treatments called poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors can benefit women with triple-negative breast cancer and cancer caused by defects in the BRCA1 or BRCA 2 gene; the use of bisphosphonates, or bone-building or bone-strengthening pills, for bone metastases; and medicines such as bevacizumab (brand name: Avastin) that target HER2 and blood vessel growth. You will learn why some cancers respond to treatments while others do not and when it is important to receive medicines in a certain order. |
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4/19/2009
Bone Mets: Standard and Novel Treatment
Speaker: Edith P. Mitchell, MD, FACP
| This publication will give you a comprehensive understanding of how bone is formed and lost, and how metastatic breast cancer can interrupt this process and contribute to bone loss. Dr. Mitchell explains risk factors that can lead to poor bone health, how bone density tests are used, and the pain and quality-of-life issues that bone metastasis can cause. Learn how bisphosphonates work to decrease bone loss, and hear about their side effects. |
4/19/2009
Getting Relief: Pain Management Strategies
Speaker: Pam Kedziera, RN, MSN, AOCN
| Learn how to effectively communicate your concerns to your doctor to develop a pain management plan for advanced (metastatic) breast cancer. Understand types of pain and treatments, and find out about pain medications and other methods to manage pain and side effects. Discover how to include pain management in your overall care plan and how to avoid barriers that can keep you from getting treatment for pain. |
4/19/2009
Maintaining Nutrition for Optimal Well-Being While Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer
Speaker: Debra DeMille, MS, RD, CSO
| Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle can help keep you strong in body, mind and spirit. Understand how nutrition can support your treatment and help you manage side effects. Get recommendations on specific foods and information on how vitamin D, a low-fat diet, organic foods and watching your weight can improve your outlook. |
4/19/2009
Living with Uncertainty
Speaker: Helen L. Coons, PhD, ABPP
| Living with advanced (metastatic) breast cancer can cause anxiety which affects your quality of life. Learn how to manage your emotions instead of avoiding them and focus on your present well-being. Dr. Coons discusses techniques to help you cope with stress and uncertainty and feel more in control. She also explains how you can build a support system of family and friends to get the kind of help you need. |
4/18/2009
Treating Advanced Breast Cancer: Medical and Research News
Speaker: Hope S. Rugo, MD
| Dr. Rugo brings you up to date on the latest medical treatments for metastatic breast cancer. Hear groundbreaking research news, learn about treatments in the pipeline and find out about open clinical trials that will help doctors understand more about advanced disease. |
4/18/2009
Managing Symptoms and Side Effects: Living Well Every Day
Speaker: Carrie Tompkins Stricker, PhD, RN
| Ongoing treatment and symptoms can cause side effects that affect your quality of life. Learn strategies to manage fatigue, pain, nausea, insomnia, skin changes, neuropathy, and more. Hear tips from others and learn new methods to enhance your quality of life. |
4/18/2009
Planning Ahead: Living Wills, Wills and Powers of Attorney
Speakers: Rodney N. Warner, Esq and Paul L. Feldman, Esq
| Learn how powers of attorney, healthcare proxies, living wills and wills can empower you when cancer can make you feel powerless. Learn practical approaches for protecting you and your family's financial interests. Avoid healthcare and financial problems before they occur, and learn where to find more information to plan ahead. |
4/18/2009
Sexuality and Intimacy
Speaker: Michael L. Krychman, MDCM
| Most people with cancer say they have sexual difficulties, but providers and doctors usually hesitate to bring them up. In this publication, Dr. Krychman talks about “sexual health care,” including the role of local hormone treatments and the challenge of explaining your needs. Among the concerns Dr. Krychman explores are changed feelings in and about your breasts after surgery; pain or dryness caused by menopausal changes; and the impact of radiation and lymphedema on sexuality. Learn to ask questions of your doctor and to make the most of your intimate life—as you uniquely define it. This publication also contains a brief discussion of the use of the word “chronic” to describe metastatic breast cancer. |
4/18/2009
Creative Coping: Healing with Words
Speaker: Alysa Cummings
| Explore how writing can help you to process and understand your feelings about breast cancer. Alysa Cummings, a poet and writer who was treated for breast cancer ten years ago, shares research that shows the value of sharing personal stories and provides you with tools to get started. Topics covered include loss, grief, anger, blame, fear, changed body image and control. Ms. Cummings reads poems from several writers and takes you through a breathing and writing exercise. This publication from our Annual Conference for Women Living with Advanced Breast Cancer contains information that may benefit women with a variety of diagnoses. |
4/18/2009
Brain Mets: Standard and Novel Treatments
Speaker: Hope S. Rugo, MD
| Learn how some breast cancers travel to areas in the central nervous system (CNS) and about methods to treat them. Dr. Hugo reviews symptoms of and risk factors for brain metastases; scans used to detect them; survival rates, and why they have grown over the past few decades; and treatments like radiation, medicine, surgery and radiosurgery. |
3/25/2009
Hormonal Treatment Options for Early-Stage and Advanced Breast Cancer
Speaker: Jennifer Armstrong, MD
| Dr. Armstrong gives a detailed look at the different stages of breast cancer, what they mean and how doctors determine treatment options. Understand how hormonal therapies are used to treat early-stage and metastatic breast cancer and the options available for pre- and postmenopausal women. Learn how tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitors work, and get information on their possible side effects. |
2/28/2009
Advanced Breast Cancer: Living with Uncertainty
Speaker: Mary K. Hughes, RN, CNS
| One of the greatest challenges of living well with metastatic breast cancer is managing the feelings of uncertainty that often accompany a new treatment or symptom. Ms. Hughes speaks compassionately about the process of grieving your changed life, and suggests language to use to help your loved ones understand what you are going through. She suggests writing down the things that are important to you, large and small, and finding ways to share information so you can get the support you want. Learn common coping skills, set short-and long-term goals and find out how to manage side effects like pain, fatigue, insomnia, constipation and depression. |
2/28/2009
Advanced Breast Cancer: Medical and Quality-of-Life Updates
Speaker: Eric P. Winer, MD
| Understand the factors that can affect your prognosis if you have been diagnosed with advanced (metastatic) breast cancer. Get information about the latest clinical trials on hormonal and other targeted therapies and treatments for specific areas of metastasis. Learn how chemotherapy is used to treat advanced breast cancer and get an update on treatments for HER2-positive breast cancer. |
11/1/2008
Managing Advanced Breast Cancer: Research and Treatment Update
Speaker: Paul B. Gilman, MD
| Learn about the latest research and medical breakthroughs in hormonal, targeted and chemotherapy treatments for metastatic breast cancer, as well as results from recent clinical trials. Hear quality-of-life updates to manage side effects and symptoms and to enhance your overall well-being. |
10/29/2008
Symptom and Side-Effect Management for Optimal Well-Being
Virginia F. Borges, MD
| Learn how medical and lifestyle interventions can help you manage symptoms and side effects. Explore lifestyle changes you can make to improve your quality of life, and understand how to communicate effectively with your doctor, family and friends. Dr. Borges discusses the importance of knowing what is causing your symptoms and what side effects to expect from treatment. |
10/8/2008
The Latest Advances in the Management of Advanced Breast Cancer
Hope S. Rugo, MD
| Find out about the latest medical treatments to manage advanced (metastatic) breast cancer. Understand the importance of communicating with your healthcare team to ensure you get the treatment that is right for you. Dr. Rugo explains recent clinical trial findings and breaking research on hormonal therapies, chemotherapy agents and treatments targeted to specific areas of metastasis. |
8/6/2008
Advanced Breast Cancer: Coping with Your Emotions
Speaker: Gregory Garber, MSW, LCSW
| Learn how a diagnosis of advanced (metastatic) breast cancer can affect your quality of life both physically and psychologically. Mr. Garber offers techniques for managing your emotions, methods to cope and strategies to accommodate changes in treatment. Understand ways to communicate with family and friends and get tips on where and how to find support. |
5/3/2008
Medical and Research Update for Women Living with Advanced Breast Cancer
Andrew D. Seidman, MD
| Learn about the latest medical research on advanced (metastatic) breast cancer from one of the nation's leading medical experts. Dr. Seidman reviews some of the latest chemotherapy and targeted therapy options for women living with advanced disease. Learn about treatments in the research pipeline, supportive care approaches to maintain your quality of life and clinical trial results that may help you develop questions to ask your healthcare team. |
5/3/2008
Your Well-Being: Complementary Approaches to Symptom and Side-Effect Management
Steven Rosenzweig, MD
| Get information on how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) can be used to help manage symptoms and side effects of metastatic breast cancer. Learn about methods to boost your immune system, improve fatigue and manage nausea. Get new ideas for managing quality of life, stress and overall wellness. |
2/24/2008
Taking Control and Managing End-of-Life Issues
Debra K. Thaler-DeMers, BSN, RN, OCN, PRN-c
| This program sensitively addresses your questions about end-of-life issues and provides tools and resources to help you and your family plan ahead. Ms.Thaler-DeMers discusses choosing hospice and a palliative care team, managing your finances, organizing personal information, leaving a legacy, creating a power of attorney and ensuring your final wishes are met. She explores the importance of communicating with family and offers advice if your loved ones are having trouble talking with you. |
2/23/2008
Candidly Speaking: Talking to Your Family about Advanced Breast Cancer
Sage Annaleise Bolte, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C
| As a young woman living with advanced breast cancer, you may have unique challenges. Many people have a limited understanding of advanced disease and the concept of ongoing treatments. Since you may be dealing with permanent changes to your lifestyle, it may be harder to talk about them. Learn methods for communicating effectively, and get tips on finding the information and support you need to talk more comfortably with your family. |
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