Cancer Clinical Trials Office Blog

Please join us for our next CCTO Book Club Meeting on April 2nd, led by Donirene Ward, author Emily Evans, and Sneha Mohile.

Donirene and author, Emily Evans, will be leading a discussion of Accidental Cinderella. Donirene selected this book as it is written by one of our very own study monitors!

Accidental Cinderella is a book that retells a classic story in a contemporary setting.  It has a ball…a gown…a pumpkin…and a happily ever…  We all know the story; or do we?  Although this book was written for Young Adults, it was selected because the author has worked with the CCTO.  She is a monitor that worked on one of our Hematology trials for several years.  The author will be joining our next book-club session and can answer any questions about the book and/or Indie publishing.

Sneha will be discussing the first chapter of The Seat of the Soul, written by Gary Zukav. The first chapter can be found for free here.

The Seat of the Soul is a book that offers a unique blend of self-awareness, philosophy and spirituality. The book takes you into a deep dive mode of understanding who you are with respect to the external and internal power. Author Gary Zukav offers an insight to your personality, character, external world and the true authentic self! The purpose of the book is to connect with your true self and align your soul with your actions. It is a great read if you enjoy some soul time with yourself!

The Zoom information can be found in the calendar invite sent to staff or below:

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98362072991?pwd=TDUvdFg2RkZyU0VDRkJuZ3BBemUyQT09&from=addon

Password: 152183

Frontiers in Cancer Clinical Translation 2021 Seminar Series

The seminars will occur on 2^nd and 4^th Tuesdays of each month 8AM

(Alternating with Cancer Institute’s “Frontiers in Oncology” series)

February 23, 2021

8:00 AM

“ASCO Updates:  Gastro-intestinal Cancers”

Tyler Johnson M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Oncology

Senior Associate Program Director, Stanford Oncology Fellowship Program

 View CME Accreditation information at https://med.stanford.edu/cme/rss/fcct

To claim CME credit for this session text in the code 39829 to 844-560-1904. You have up to 24 hours to claim credit.

View text sign-in instructions at https://med.stanford.edu/cme/my-cme-account/text-attendance.html

Zoom Link

Topic: Frontiers In Cancer Clinical Translation

Time: February 9, 2021, 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/8927817254?pwd=bytJQi9lK2xLL2JIM2JiRVFVeG5iZz09

    Password: 377533

Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536,,8927817254# or +16507249799,,8927817254#

Or Telephone:

    Dial: +1 650 724 9799 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll Free)

    Meeting ID: 892 781 7254

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    International numbers available: https://stanford.zoom.us/u/adKhXqjvhv

    Meeting ID: 892 781 7254

    Password: 377533

    SIP: 8927817254@zoomcrc.com

    Password: 377533

Please join us for our next CCTO Book Club Meeting on April 2nd, led by Donirene Ward, author Emily Evans, and Sneha Mohile.

Donirene and author, Emily Evans, will be leading a discussion of Accidental Cinderella. Donirene selected this book as it is written by one of our very own study monitors!

Accidental Cinderella is a book that retells a classic story in a contemporary setting.  It has a ball…a gown…a pumpkin…and a happily ever…  We all know the story; or do we?  Although this book was written for Young Adults, it was selected because the author has worked with the CCTO.  She is a monitor that worked on one of our Hematology trials for several years.  The author will be joining our next book-club session and can answer any questions about the book and/or Indie publishing.

Sneha will be discussing the first chapter of The Seat of the Soul, written by Gary Zukav. The first chapter can be found for free here.

The Seat of the Soul is a book that offers a unique blend of self-awareness, philosophy and spirituality. The book takes you into a deep dive mode of understanding who you are with respect to the external and internal power. Author Gary Zukav offers an insight to your personality, character, external world and the true authentic self! The purpose of the book is to connect with your true self and align your soul with your actions. It is a great read if you enjoy some soul time with yourself!

The Zoom information can be found in the calendar invite sent to staff or below:

https://stanford.zoom.us/j/98362072991?pwd=TDUvdFg2RkZyU0VDRkJuZ3BBemUyQT09&from=addon

Password: 152183

Dear Community,

Please join us as we present the 8th COVID-19 Virtual Community Town Hall on Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 4-5:00 PM PST to address the impact of COVID-19 on our adolescents mental well-being during the pandemic.

COVID-19 Community Virtual Town Hall Information:

Register Today | http://bit.ly/OCE_COVID19_TH_Reg8 -Submit Town Hall Questions | http://bit.ly/OCE_COVID19_QAForm8 -Join by Zoom (Spanish Translation available on Zoom only) | http://bit.ly/OCE_COVID19_THZoom, Passcode: 258795 -Join by Facebook Live | https://www.facebook.com/StanfordOCE/live/

Join by Telephone | US: +1 650 724 9799 +1 833 302 1536 (Toll Free) or +1 877 853 5257 (Toll Free), Webinar ID: 990 4957 1414, Passcode: 258795

FEATURED SPEAKERS:

Steven Sust, MD | Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford Medicine, Stanford Childrenâ?Ts Health -Ana Lilia Soto, MA | Youth Development Manager, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Center for Youth Mental Health & Wellbeing, Stanford Medicine -Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH (Moderator) | Assistant Professor and Epidemiologist, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Faculty Director, Office of Community Engagement, Stanford Medicine

YOUTH ADVISORY GROUP (YAG) SPEAKERS:

Almah Galan, Mohan Morusupalli, Samskruthi Madireddy, Emily Wang and Zoe Adelsheim

Click below for COVID-19 resources and information on past/present community town hall(s):

http://med.stanford.edu/oce/partnerships-collaborations/covid19-community-town-hall.html

Sincerely,

Stanford Medicine | Office of Community Engagement

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MCHRI Virtual Seminar Series

Monday, February 1, 2021, 12:00PM-1:00PM

Register Here

Among children with B-cell progenitor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common kind of childhood cancer, 15% of children will relapse after initially responding to standard therapies, and 50% of children who relapse will die, making relapsed ALL the second-leading cause of cancer-related death in children. Even with the emergence of novel immunotherapies, including chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells, at least 40% of children with ALL who initially respond to these novel therapies will still go on to relapse. As such, a critical need remains—to prevent relapse among children with ALL, thus providing a definitive cure.

In this talk, Dr. Kara Davis will discuss the use of a single-cell mass cytometry, or CyTOF, to identify cells associated with relapse from diagnostic patient samples. Using machine learning, Dr. Davis and her research team built an elastic net model to predict relapse using the measured features in the expanded B-cell populations. She will share insight into these relapse predictive cells, including differences in their response to standard leukemia therapies and differences in their cellular metabolism that may contribute to chemoresistance. Further, Dr. Davis will address the application of these tools and other single-cell approaches to study CD19-negative relapse after CD19 targeting CAR-T cell therapies.

Speaker:

Kara Davis, DO – Dr. Davis is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. Her research focuses on using single-cell analysis to organize tumor heterogeneity in pediatric cancers, especially blood cancers, as means to determine cell populations associated with clinical risks such as relapse. Clinically, Dr. Davis sees patients with leukemia and is involved with the Cancer Cellular Therapies program with experience in treating children with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells and other immunotherapies including checkpoint inhibitors.