MIB Agents OsteoBites and osTEAo

This episode is sponsored is by BTG Pharmaceuticals Dr. Michael Bishop is an Assistant Member in the Solid Tumor Division of the Department of Oncology at St. Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN. His clinical practice focuses primarily on the management of children and young adults with bone and soft tissue sarcomas, and his research interests are dedicated to the development of prospective cl...

This presentation discusses key findings in immunotherapies from the investigator's laboratory as well as those that have shaped the landscape of both human and canine cancers. The information focuses on EGFR and HER2 based immunotherapies, including osteosarcoma, hemangiosarcoma and other cancer types in canine patients. Mechanisms of tumor growth and therapy will also be topics of discussion...

OsteoWarriors Camille and Mia are joined by members of the MIB Agents Junior Advisory Board to discuss questions submitted by patients, caregivers, clinicians, and researchers. This episode was inspired by the tremendous interest and engagement in the patient panel at the MIB Agents FACTOR 2023 osteosarcoma conference. Camille, Mia, and our Junior Advisory Board discuss many topics including cance...

Episode sponsored by BTG Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Significant efforts are still necessary to individuate new therapeutic strategies aimed to reduce cancer recurrence and to define new potential adjuvant targets for inhibiting invasion and metastasis, two significant contributors to death among patients. The increasing interest in the employment of nanostructured mate...

Osteosarcoma Webinar Series: Scott Okuno, MD - SARC Medical Officer and Ann Graham, Executive Director of MIB Agents join us on OsteoBites to discuss how SARC (Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration) work together to drive collaboration in the sarcoma community and support sarcoma research. -- Dr. Scott Okuno is Professor of Oncology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He is a rec...

The Osteosarcoma Institute (OSI) is currently supporting two clinical trials and seven laboratory research projects for osteosarcoma. In this OsteoBites episode, you will meet Lee J. Helman, MD, Director of the OSI and Chand Khanna, DVM, PhD, Chair of the OSI’s Strategic Advisory Board. Dr. Helman and Dr. Khanna will provide an overview of the OSI’s osteosarcoma research portfolio and explain how...

OsteoWarriors Camille and Gillian are joined by grief coach Lori Krause to discuss what survivor's grief and guilt look like and how to cope and learn to live with these feelings. --- What We Do at MIB Agents: PROGRAMS: End-of-Life MISSIONS Gamer Agents Agent Writers Prayer Agents Healing Hearts - Bereaved Parent and Sibling Support Ambassador Agents - Peer Support Warrior Mail Young Adult Sur...

Dr. Jeffrey Bryan earned his D.V.M. from the University of California - Davis in 1993. He worked as an Associate Veterinarian from 1993-1995 and served as Medical Director from 1995-2002 of the Irving Street Veterinary Hospital in San Francisco, CA. Bryan then completed a medical oncology residency, a Masters of Biomedical Sciences, and a PhD in Pathobiology at the University of Missouri. He recei...

Mia and her special guest Jessie review and discuss cancer memes. Mia shares how these memes resonate with her real-life experiences, and Jessie offers perspective as a friend and partner to a cancer patient. If you are a cancer patient, you will likely laugh along and completely relate to these memes. For clinicians, friends, and family of a cancer patient, you will hear a frank (and funny!) disc...

Dr. Katie Janeway, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist of Dana Farber/Boston's Children Hospital, and Benjamin Zola, a Project Manager at Count Me In (CMI), will be joining to share more insight into Count Me In's  patient- powered Osteosarcoma research project, and the potential outcomes for discoveries that can have a direct impact on the future osteosarcoma.  Count Me In (CMI) is a nonp...

Dr. Alice Soragni, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and of the UCLA Molecular Biology Institute. She has a Master of Science cum Laude from the University of Bologna, Italy and a PhD from the ETH of Zuerich, Switzerland. Her laboratory in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCLA couples basic res...

Dr. Christian Capitini is an associate professor and the Jean R. Finley Professor of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology. He serves as co-leader of the Developmental Therapeutics Program at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and director of clinical innovation at the Forward BIO Institute. He has received many awards for his clinical and research contributions, including the Departmen...

A cancer diagnosis can affect your ability to do the things you love, like sports, dance, and school, stripping your identity of your hobbies and passions. OsteoWarriors Camille and Mia chat about this loss of identity and how they cope. Listen in as they discuss what it's like dealing with a sense of loss of self and how they manage to form an identity outside of cancer. --- What We Do at MIB...

OSI Connect is the Osteosarcoma Institute’s free, easy-to-use resource for patients who have been diagnosed with osteosarcoma or suffered a relapse after initial treatment. In this OsteoBites episode, you will meet Lee J. Helman, MD, Director of the OSI and Chelsey Blanks, OSI Connect Administrator. You will learn how OSI Connect works and examples of how the program has helped more than 70 patien...

*Please note : The safety and efficacy of GD2-SADA:177Lu-DOTA Drug Complex have not been established and have not been approved by health authorities in the US or globally. Janet Yoon, M.D., specializes in pediatric hematology/oncology because it allows her to build long-term relationships with her young patients and their caregivers. Inspired by their resilience and strength, she stays at the lea...

Bang H. Hoang, MD, is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon specializing in musculoskeletal tumor surgery. Dr. Hoang is an expert in benign and malignant tumors, metastatic bone disease, pathologic fractures, complex bone and joint reconstruction with large-segment prosthesis and allograft, tumors of the pelvis and sacrum, and investigational therapy for bone and soft tissue sarcoma. He is the Co-D...

You are not alone - scanxiety is real! OsteoWarriors Camille and Mia chat about scans and share their experiences with the different types of scans, from x-rays to CT scans, to MRIs and PET scans.   Listen in as they discuss what it's like adapting to life that is regularly punctuated with scans and share how they cope with scanxiety. --- What We Do at MIB Agents: PROGRAMS: ✨ End-of-Life MISS...

Cristina Canal Barnils (Barcelona 1977) is Associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), head of the  PlasmaMedLab : Plasmas for BioMedical Applications Laboratory and of the Medical Technologies: Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering research group at the IRSJD . Before joining UPC, she did different research stages at...

Dr. Claudia Benavente studied Molecular Biotechnology Engineering at Universidad de Chile where her interest in pursuing cancer research first started. To further her studies, she came to the US to pursue a doctoral degree in Cancer Biology at The University of Arizona as a Fulbright scholar. She then moved on as a postdoctoral fellow to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN where s...

Erin S. Murphy MD is an Associate Professor in the department of radiation oncology at the Cleveland Clinic. She completed residency at the Cleveland Clinic and a fellowship in pediatric radiation oncology at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She specializes in radiotherapy and radiosurgery for brain tumors and pediatric tumors and is passionate about using aggressive local tools while mainta...

OsteoWarriors Camille and Mia are joined by OsteoWarriors Daniel and Kara in this episode on navigating life and campus with limb salvage surgery and amputation, which are the primary treatment options to remove an osteosarcoma tumor. Listen in as they discuss why they chose limb salvage surgery or amputation and how they manage getting around school, and share challenges and horror stories they'v...

Dr. Kelly M. Bailey MD, PhD, is a pediatric oncologist certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Dr. Bailey received her medical degree and PhD from West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., and completed her residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric hematology/oncology at the University...

Surgery along with chemotherapy is the mainstay of treatment for patients with osteosarcoma. In order to achieve a cure, during surgery healthy tissue surrounding the tumour is also removed. Whilst this reduces the chances of the cancer returning, it can also result in added pain and disability for patients, impacting their quality of life in the longer-term. Advancements in surgical technology an...

Jayanthi Parthasarathy BDS, MS, PhD, manages the 3D Printing Lab at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, which provides comprehensive patient-specific treatment planning and device development services from a pediatric perspective. She will discuss virtual surgical planning and 3D printing in pediatric musculoskeletal oncological resections. A trained dental surgeon with more than 3 decades of practice...

Eunice Lopez Fuentes is in her postdoc studies at UCSF in Sweet-Cordero Lab. She is interested in defining the mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation in osteosarcoma. Fuentes has uncovered two epigenetic different cell states with differential drug responses. Her main goal is to gain insight into the biology of these subclasses and define how their distinct master regulators may determine new cl...