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Preserving Fertility Through Cancer Treatment

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
This is a special episode of the Marrow Masters Podcast.  Not only do we have two guests, but we are also diving into a very important topic that isn't often discussed.   When you're facing transplant, fertility may be the furthest thing from your mind.   But chemotherapy, radiation, and other t...

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AML Survivor Lela Prewitt Talks GVHD Tips

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:54 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Lela Prewitt was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) n February of 2021.  She walks us through her diagnosis and transplant process.  This includes having to move with her wife from their small community to Seattle, so they could have access to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, also kno...

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Pediatric Patient Care, with Retired PA Nancy Robey

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:54 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Nancy Robey spent 34 years as a Physicians Assistant at Johns Hopkins in Maryland.  Now retired, she has a wealth of experience with pediatric transplant patients. She's here today to offer her tips and best practices to care for them. In the pediatric transplant world, the procedure may be for...

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Caregiver Tina Masters-Odum Keeps Hunter's Battle Alive

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Tina Masters-Odum recently lost her husband after being his caregiver for over 12 years.  Today, she honors his legacy by sharing her best caregiver and survivorship tips. We start with what you need to know at the beginning of this process.  It can be easy to experience information overload. B...

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Jermaine Reid's Spirituality Through AML

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:54 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jermaine Reid of Georgia was playing a recreational basketball game when, all of a sudden, he couldn't catch his breath.   Jermaine had not been to the doctor in quite some time and he knew something was wrong. Next thing you know, he was in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Northside Hospital...

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Information Specialist, Nurse and CML Survivor Becky Dame

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 23:54 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Today we are  joined by Becky Dame, currently an Information Specialist at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, RN and Survivor. As Peggy says in the podcast, callers who end up talking to Becky must feel like they've hit the information jackpot.  Becky is a chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) survivor w...

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Season 9 Trailer: What I Wish I Knew Before Transplant

Marrow Masters - December 14, 2022 22:44 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Season 9 of the Marrow Masters Podcast focuses on “what I wish I knew before transplant.”  We’re featuring advice from caregivers, doctors, nurses, and survivors. The transplant journey doesn’t end in the hospital - it’s important to maintain a positive attitude when you come home, too. This sea...

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MS warrior podcast Ep.10 (Kezia Kecibas)

MS Warrior Podcast - November 14, 2022 10:00 - 56 minutes
MS warrior podcast Ep.10 (Kezia Kecibas) MS warrior, author and mother with MS underwent HSCT in Moscow 2021 Read her amazing story here:     " What happens when you take off those rose-tinted glasses? When so far, seeing through their lens has meant a diagnosis of MS has never been more than a...

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How A Clinical Trial Changed Aisha Stokes' Life

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:17 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Survivor Aisha Stokes of Southfield, Michigan was not a cancer patient.  She battled sickle cell anemia for the first 24 years of her life.   But it was a clinical trial involving what's traditionally a cancer course of treatment - that changed everything. Aisha walks us through the decision to...

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Dr. Corey Cutler of Dana Farber

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:16 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Dr. Corey Cutler is the medical director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Boston's Dana Farber Cancer Institute and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.  As a physician at the forefront of cancer research, he talks about how the field has rapidly advanced, tha...

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How Clinical Trials Extended Jacey Herman's Life

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:16 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Jacey Herman is a survivor.  And much of that has to do with clinical trials.  At age 35, this mom of two was diagnosed with with B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Late admission into a clinical trial got her to remission the first time.  After a relapse, she underwent a double cord transpla...

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Stacey Brown, Clinical Research Manager at Northside Hospital

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:15 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
This season we are talking to doctors and clinical trial participants.  But today we get a different perspective. Stacey Brown manages clinical research at Northside Hospital Cancer Institute.  She's uniquely qualified to discuss what goes into an institution joining a clinical trial, as well as...

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Gleevec Pioneer Mel Mann's 25 Year Survival Story

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:15 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Today Gleevec is an incredibly common cancer treatment.  But like every drug on the market, it went through clinical trials more than two decades ago.  Our guest today, Mel Mann, was the second person to receive the drug, back in 1998. And it saved his life. Mel was diagnosed with chronic myelo...

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Dr. Mark Schroeder Explains the Clinical Trial Process

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:14 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Our guest today is Dr. Mark Schroeder of the Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis.  Dr. Schroeder walks us through the different phases of the clinical trial process, how it can benefit patients, and how volunteers can help advance cancer treatment. We talk about intervention...

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Marilyn Zagha-Keeshan's Shares Extraordinary Treatment During Clinical Trials

Marrow Masters - September 21, 2022 13:14 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Survivor Marilyn Zagha-Keeshan joins us today.  An immunoblastic T-cell lymphoma survivor, Marilyn volunteered for not one, but two clinical trials.  She talks about the helpless feeling that came with her cancer diagnosis, but the empowering feeling that came with volunteering for clinical tria...

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Season 8 Trailer: Clinical Trials

Marrow Masters - September 19, 2022 21:40 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Welcome to Season 8 of the Marrow Masters Podcast, sponsored by Omeros Corporation. and Incyte.  Season 8 of our show focuses on clinical trials. We're covering how to find them, what to expect, and how survivors have benefited from them. We also talk to healthcare professionals about how these ...

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Dr. Areej El-Jawahri on Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease Issues Regarding Sexual Health and Intimacy

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 11:20 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Season 7 of Marrow Masters focuses on chronic Graft vs. Host Disease sufferers, or GVHD "long haulers."  And our first episode is about an important topic that doesn't get enough attention - reproductive and sexual health. Dr. Areej El-Jawahri is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital ...

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Juliane Belisle, MSW, LCSW-s, on the Psychosocial Needs of Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease Long Haulers

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 11:15 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Juliane Belisle, MSW, LCSW-s, at Cancer Family Care in Cincinnati, provided counseling and other services to survivors and their families.  To outsiders, chronic Graft vs. Host Disease long haulers may appear fine.  Survivors have made it through transplant and the immediate aftermath.   But the...

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Dr. Sean Smith on Improving and Maintaining Mobility with Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 11:10 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Dr. Sean Smith is the director of the cancer rehabilitation program at Michigan Medicine, in Ann Arbor, as well as an associate professor at the University of Michigan. He's dedicated to helping patients improve function as it relates to a variety of musculoskeletal, neurological and cognitive d...

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Heather Jim, Ph.D, on Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease Sleep Related Issues

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 11:05 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Heather Jim, PhD,  is a senior member and co-leader of the Health Outcomes and Behavior Research Program at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.  Today she walks us through ways to combat sleep issues related to chronic Graft vs. Host Disease.  Hopefully the tips here will help all of us get a better...

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Caregiver Ann Haehn Shares Best Ways to Support Your Loved One Battling Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Colorado's Ann Haehn and her daughter Genny are two truly special people.  Today, Ann takes us on their journey through Genny's transplant and subsequent battles with chronic Graft vs Host Disease. After a very grim diagnosis, Ann and the rest of Genny's village found a doctor that felt he coul...

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Survivor and Advocate Meredith Cowden, MA, LPCC-S, Shares Insight and Resources Regarding Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 10:55 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Today, survivor and advocate Meredith Cowden talks about being your own advocate regarding GVHD.  As patient advocacy director of the Meredith Cowden Foundation, she has a wealth of resources to share, many of which are linked below.   (If you'd like to hear a more detailed version of Meredith'...

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Heather Younker RDN, CSO, on Chronic Graft Versus Host Disease Diet and Nutrition Issues

Marrow Masters - June 21, 2022 10:50 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Today, Peg is joined by Heather Younker, RDN, CSO, a dietician at the John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center.  We cover all things related to Graft vs. Host Disease and diet. Nutrition is important for everyone, but especially those with GVHD, in order to prevent maln...

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Season 7 Trailer - cGVHD Long Haulers

Marrow Masters - June 16, 2022 19:33 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 7 ratings
Welcome to Marrow Masters Season 7, sponsored by Pharmacyclics and Jansen, and Kadmon, a Sanofi company.  This season we focus on long haulers – those who are dealing with chronic graft vs host disease.  We cover different treatment options. We’ll cover some topics that aren’t always easy to br...

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MS Warrior Podcast 10 (Lorraine Murray)

MS Warrior Podcast - January 18, 2022 15:00 - 42 minutes
Lorraine Murray is a married mother and was diagnosed with RRMS in 2003. Lorraine has MS but says: Be “MS never had or will ever have me.” You can read her blog at http://www.lozhsct.co.uk Support the show (https://mswarriorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/)

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MS Warrior Podcast Ep.9 (Dr. Ruiz)

MS Warrior Podcast - October 10, 2021 17:00 - 54 minutes
Dr. Guillermo José Ruiz Argüelles is General Director at Clinica Ruiz, Centro de Hematologia y Medicina Interna de Puebla, Clinica RUIZ; Director of the Research Division of Laboratorios Ruiz, within the Clinica RUIZ; Professor of Hematology at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Pueb...

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MS Warrior Podcast Ep.8 (Michael Breen)

MS Warrior Podcast - August 23, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes
Michael is a father of 2 lovely daughters, worked in IT software business solutions for over 20 years, he was diagnosed with MS in the mid 80s before the world wide Web was invented, he is now retired and went to Russia last year for HSCT. He is recovering very well and is now starting to learn...

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MS Warrior Podcast Ep.7 (Alison Coates AIMS)

MS Warrior Podcast - August 15, 2021 07:00 - 32 minutes
[email protected] Alison Coates Trustee Alison is married to James, and is mum to two grown up daughters (and a very needy cat). She is a business development adviser and trainer, with a background in speech and drama. In her spare time, she likes reading, theatre, cooking, and seeing th...

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MS Warrior Podcast Ep.5 (Dan Flicker)

MS Warrior Podcast - August 12, 2021 20:00 - 53 minutes
MS Warrior Podcast Ep.5 (Dan Flicker) #MS,#multiplesclerosis,ms symptoms Support the show (https://mswarriorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/)

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MS Warrior Podcast (BBC coverage)

MS Warrior Podcast - August 11, 2021 20:00 - 3 minutes
MS Warrior Podcast (BBC coverage) Support the show (https://mswarriorpodcast.buzzsprout.com/)

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