Meeting Info
Here you will find summaries of presentations at past meetings.
Oct 16, 2004
Dr. Richard Warner, M.D.
Carcinoid 2004: Update on Diagnosis and Management - video now and soon a pdf typed transcript
Mar 20, 2004
Dr. James Ahlgren
Planning a clinical trial for carcinoid
Nov 1, 2003
Dr. Kjell Oberg
Carcinoid Tumors - Latest on diagnosis and treatment - video and a pdf typed transcript
Jul 19, 2003
Ms. Monica Warner
Nutrition for Carcinoid Patients
April 12, 2003
Dr. Stephen Marx
MEN1 Syndrome
May 18, 2002
Dr.Andrew Kennedy
TheraSpheres
April 20, 2002
Dr. Jeff Geschwind
Chemoembolization
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| CACS Meeting Schedule - Guests Welcome! |
Sat, Jan.12, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. This will be a planning meeting for 2008 guest speakers and so please come and bring your ideas. |
Sat, Feb.9, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Mar.15, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. Our guest speaker will be Stephen Wank M.D., Chief of the Digestive Diseases Branch, National Institute of Health. He will give a presentation on the Familial Aspects of Carcinoid.
Dr. Stephen Wank received his undergraduate and medical degree from
Duke University.
He performed his internship and residency at the John’s Hopkins
Hospital resulting in board certification in Internal Medicine. He
went on to fellowship training in gastroenterology at Stanford
University Medical Center and in endocrinology at the National
Institutes of Health and has achieved Board Certification in both
subspecialties.
Dr. Wank has been a tenured Senior Clinical
Investigator in the Digestive Diseases Branch of the National
Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National
Institutes of Health since 1990 and became Chief of the Digestive
Diseases Branch in 2004. Dr. Wank has been involved in basic science
research in gastrointestinal hormones and receptors and clinical
research in gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors dating back
to 1984 with an emphasis on gastrinomas arising either sporadically
or in the setting of Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1.
Presently,
Dr. Wank has turned his attention toward the investigation of
carcinoid tumors, with an interest in familial midgut carcinoid tumor
and type II gastric carcinoid tumor. Dr. Wank will be presenting a
description of his new clinical research protocol that he has
initiated at the National Institutes of Health entitled “The Natural
History of Familial Carcinoid Tumor”.
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Sat, Apr.19, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, May 17, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Jun.21, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Jul.19, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Aug.16, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Sep.20, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - Drucilla Brethwaite, MSW, LCSW, OSW-C, the Life With Cancer Oncology Counselor who works with caregivers will speak to us at this meeting. She will focus primarily on our very important caregivers. |
Sat, Oct.18, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
CACS 7th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION - Mark your calenders and plan to be at this meeting when we will have our CACS Seventh Anniversery Celebration. Time and place are the same as usual and are shown on the left. |
Sat, Nov.15, 2008, 10AM-12:30 PM
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Group Meeting - CACS members and guests sharing our own concerns. No Guest Speaker scheduled at this time. |
Sat, Dec.13, 2008, 11AM-Until..
Meeting Location:
Life With Cancer Family Center ® |
Holiday Celebration - for CACS members and guests. |
Life With Cancer Family Center ®:
2700 Prosperity Ave, Suite 100
Fairfax, VA 22031
Phone - 703-776-2841
From I-495 going North: (Orange lines)
Take route 50 west (exit 50 B-A). Note that the ramp is actually just past Gallows road and long before route 50.
You will pass over route 50 and then loop around onto 50. STAY IN THE RIGHT LANE.
Take the exit from Rt 50 for Gallows Road North almost immediately after passing the on-ramp for 495 south
Bear right onto Gallows Road. (continued below)
From I-495 going South: (Green lines)
Take route 50 west (exit 50 A-B). Note that the exit for Gallows road is from the ramp and that you never get to rt 50.
Take the exit from the 495 Off Ramp for Gallows Road North just before getting to Rt 50
Bear right onto Gallows Road. (continued below)
Once on Gallows Road North (Orange and Green line)
Move to the left lane and stay there for several blocks until you arrive at Route 29. Pass route 29 and continue on to Prosperity Ave a short distance later.
Turn left at the intersection of Prosperity Ave and Gallows Road
Continue on Prosperity Ave until it begins to turn south. The building on the right at 2700 will be the Life With Cancer Family Center. Park and come in the front door where signs will direct you to the CACS meeting room located in Suite 100.
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