A couple of things of note for the OncTalk community:

   First, you may have noticed that Dr. McCune posted an article on survivorship issues.  She’s not an uninvited hacker who’s posting on the site, but a requested additional faculty member who’s going to help run the bigger enterprise over on the GRACE website, where there will be a section devoted to cancer treatments, symptom management (everything from nausea to pain control to bowel care, etc.), and survivorship/long term follow-up issues.  She’s a longtime friend and an oncology pharmacist who is an Assocaite Professor in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Washington and is the Clinical Director of the Pharmacokinetics Lab at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (the clinical hybrid of the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center).  She received her PharmD at the University of North Carolina, where she was a key member of a multidisciplinary team in thoracic oncology there, so she’s quite well-versed in lung cancer and writes review chapters in pharmacy textbooks on lung cancer management and other topics.  So she’s pretty well qualified to help out here, and as both a friend and a colleague I’m delighted to have her join in.  She’s going to be a great help. 

   Second, although we’re quite close to having the new GRACE website be functional, the web guys over-promised on a launch today (this follows a new tradition of me assuring people the transition is only weeks away since December).  I think it will be very, very soon, but until you’re shuttled over to the new site, which we want to be functional and ready to roll before the move, it’s business as usual here.  So no asking, “Are we there yet?”.  Soon…really soon.