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| - November webinar details
- Meet our Ambassadors - this month, Thad Lurie
- News & Shorts
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| | As we gather together this season, we want to express our deep gratitude for your continued support and dedication to the head and neck cancer community. This year, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and hope that each of you brings to the fight against cancer. We are thankful for our incredible patients, survivors, caregivers, advocates, and partners—together, we are making a difference. Wishing you a joyful, safe, and meaningful Thanksgiving. With heartfelt thanks,
The Head and Neck Cancer Alliance Team |
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| November 26, 2024 | 5 p.m. ET
Festive, Flavorful, & Swallow-Friendly Holiday Cooking Join us for a live holiday cooking demonstration designed for head and neck cancer patients, survivors, and their caregivers. Spend time with two leading national dietitians as they share tips on preparing delicious and nutritious holiday dishes. You can choose to cook along or simply enjoy the experience! We’ll provide you with a variety of recipes to help you celebrate the upcoming holidays.
This webinar will be available to watch online in early December. This special holiday webinar is presented by the Penn State Food as Medicine Initiative Teaching Kitchen and Rewire Health. |
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MODERATOR:
Neerav Goyal, MD MPH FACS
Professor of Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center | Hershey, PA PANELISTS:
Janelle McLeod, RD, LDN
Registered Licensed Dietitian | Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Paige Rizzuto, MPS, RDN
Culinary Dietitian | Boston Medical Center | Rewire Health
Kris Molnar
Survivor of Tonsil Cancer, Wheeling, WV |
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| Click the button to the right for more information about the webinar and registration, or to download the recipe in advance and cook along with us! |
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| | | THAD LURIE
Husband, Father & Senior Vice President, American Geophysical Union; Survivor of Stage 2/3 HPV-attributed Oropharyngeal Cancer; Charlottesville, VA |
| Thad’s cancer journey started in the spring of 2019, when he noticed a pea-sized lump on the side of his neck while taking a shower. After many tests and visits to doctors, Thad received the diagnosis of oropharyngeal cancer, probably HPV-mediated. Thad underwent seven chemotherapy infusions and also received radiation treatment, and he “stumbled across the finish line” in mid-July, 40 pounds lighter and constantly exhausted. Thankfully, Thad’s story has a happy ending. The treatments were successful, and the PET scan showed no abnormal cancerous activity. “The important thing, though, is that I’m alive and mostly healthy, and looking forward. I have tremendous gratitude for my [entire] team and how they carried me through some of the worst days of my life. I believe strongly that the success of my treatment was closely tied to the competence and compassion of my team.” |
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|  | Dr. Moore in Kenya Dr. Michael Moore (President of our board) joined Dr. Jim Netterville (Vanderbilt) and his team at Tawfiq Hospital in Malindi, Kenya, this fall. |
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 | Congratulations Melissa! Melissa Cooke, our Patient Navigator, has been nominated to serve as a Patient Advocate on the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Steering Committee Previously Untreated Locally Advanced. We're excited to have her representing us! |
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We're looking for pictures of real people to use on our new website (coming soon), brochures, and social media. We don't want to use boring stock photos! Your photos could provide hope and inspiration to others going through head and neck cancer!
If we use your photo, we'll send you some Alliance "swag" (featuring our new logo that we will unveil soon) and provide photo credit on our website and social media.
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