ACRSS had the honor in joining two experts from Providence Cancer Institute in a discussion about the available resources for cancer fighters and family caregivers and the use of immunotherapy in cancer treatment.

Tuyen Tran earned her Master Public Health Administration degree at
Portland State University, Oregon. She currently works at Providence Health
& Services / Providence Cancer Institute as a Cancer Control / Program
Outreach Specialist. Her areas of focus include Community Health Promotion & Cancer Screening & Prevention Education; Advocacy and Health Disparities in underserved populations. She has been working with different groups to raise cancer health awareness through community cancer health screenings and educational events.

Dr. Sasha Stanton has an MD PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital/Weil Cornell Medical Center and her Hematology Oncology Fellowship at the University of Washington/Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research Center. She also completed an immunology postdoctoral fellowship with her mentor Dr. Mary L Disis at the University of Washington Cancer Vaccine Institute and was promoted to assistant professor in 2017. Dr. Stanton moved to Portland, OR in January 2020 and is an assistant member in the Department of medical oncology at the Earle A. Chiles
Research Institute. Her research focuses on antigen discovery and vaccine design for breast and head and neck squamous cell cancer prevention vaccines. She is also interested in immune modification of the tumor immune environment of breast cancer. Her clinical work is with the
Breast Oncology group at the Providence Portland Cancer Center.

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Topics discussed:
Resources available through Providence
3:10 Resources for cancer fighters and family members
29:50 Background: cancer rates in Asian Americans, clinical trials
42:41 Immunotherapy
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