Lessons Learned, Opportunities, and Challenges – A Personal Perspective

In this kick-off webinar, Dr. Patricia A. Ganz provided a keynote address on the state of symptom science research. The field of cancer symptom science comprised researchers and clinicians from both preclinical and clinical settings who were dedicated to the identification, mechanistic characterization, measurement, mitigation, and prevention of symptoms from cancer and its treatment. As an interdisciplinary field, researchers from traditionally disjointed areas had to foster collaboration and unite their efforts to move science forward in a concerted and synergistic way.

Speaker

Patricia A. Ganz, M.D.
Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management and Medicine
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and David Geffen School of Medicine
UCLA-Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Moderators

Rachel Altshuler, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group
NCI Division of Cancer Prevention

Catherine Schweppe, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Gastrointestinal and Other Cancers Research Group
NCI Division of Cancer Prevention

Brennan P. Streck, Ph.D., R.N., M.P.H.
Program Officer
Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Research Group
NCI Division of Cancer Prevention

For event information, please contact Rachel Altshuler, Catherine Schweppe, or Brennan Streck.

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