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Topic: "Unrealistic Optimism" Komen Blog
Posted By: trip2
Subject: "Unrealistic Optimism" Komen Blog
Date Posted: Mar 17 2011 at 10:10am

The New York Times recently featured a story raising concerns about the “unrealistic optimism” that many cancer patients have who sign up for early Phase I or II clinical trials. Some doctors and ethicists worried that too many volunteers have their hopes too high that the drug or treatment being tested will conquer their cancer. But George Sledge, M.D., a member of our http://ww5.komen.org/Content.aspx?id=6072 - Scientific Advisory Board , isn’t all that concerned about the volunteers’ high hopes. In fact, as he writes in the current edition of the ASCO Connection, he’s proud of them.

Check out Dr. Sledge’s article http://connection.asco.org/Bloggers/BlogView/tabid/65/aff/5/aft/470/afv/topic/Default.aspx?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4d7d1862bd11f397%2C0 - here .

http://blog.komen.org/?p=487 - http://blog.komen.org/?p=487


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Stage 2 2003
Stage 1 2007
BRCA 1+



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Posted By: SagePatientAdvocates
Date Posted: Mar 17 2011 at 12:06pm
Dear Pam.

thanks so much for posting this....

It is an honor for me to know Dr. Sledge who currently is the President of ASCO.

He is a brilliant physician and at the same time has remained a wonderful man, who does not seem ‘full of himself.’

hugs,

Steve


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I am a BRCA1+ grandson, son and father of women affected by breast/oc-my daughter inherited mutation from me, and at 36, was dx 2004 TNBC I am a volunteer patient advocate with SAGE Patient Advocates



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