Editor’s Be aware: Hoag Household Most cancers Institute is a Premier Sponsor for PanCAN PurpleStride Orange County and has been supporting PurpleStride since 2015.
As a long-standing sponsor of PanCAN PurpleStride, all of us at Hoag Household Most cancers Institute wholeheartedly assist the occasion’s mission to boost funds and consciousness for analysis, advocacy, schooling and consciousness of pancreatic most cancers.
As a frontrunner for pancreatic most cancers care in Orange County, Hoag Household Most cancers Institute’s Pancreatic Most cancers Program offers complete care, together with screening applications, early detection, remedy and genetic testing. We additionally supply high-quality multidisciplinary care, revolutionary scientific trials and assist to sufferers and their households and caregivers in hopes of a brighter tomorrow.
Hoag is the one hospital in Orange County to supply pancreatic most cancers sufferers entry to the ViewRay MRIdian linear accelerator, essentially the most superior radiation remedy out there in america, that helps goal tumors of the stomach, like pancreatic most cancers.
“PanCAN PurpleStride is such an vital occasion to Hoag, our sufferers, their caregivers and their households,” says Tara Seery, MD, a medical oncologist at Hoag who focuses on pancreatic most cancers remedy and serves as co-director of Hoag’s NK Mobile Remedy program. “The sense of group that’s fostered amongst all who take part retains us deeply invested to find an eventual treatment for pancreatic most cancers.”
Diane Eadie, RN, BSN, pancreatic most cancers scientific nurse navigator at Hoag Household Most cancers Institute and this yr’s Crew Captain, continues to participate within the occasion to assist construct consciousness in the neighborhood and assist PanCAN in making an influence on a bigger scale. Diane works carefully with our Hoag oncologists, genetics division, analysis staff and surgeons, who collaborate to offer the very best choices for sufferers and their households.
“I like seeing what number of sufferers and their assist methods present as much as assist one another,” Diane shares. “Individuals really dive in, carrying purple tutus, purple hair, bracelets and even purple glitter.”
Diane has seen firsthand the influence the occasion has on pancreatic most cancers sufferers.
“It’s nice seeing the smiling faces of my very own sufferers in addition to others who’re dwelling longer, in most half because of the dedication of all these concerned in serving to to advance progress to find a treatment for pancreatic sufferers,” Diane shared.
At Hoag, we’re proud to supply a month-to-month pancreatic most cancers assist group to assist prolong the sense of group amongst sufferers past the occasion into the scientific setting, permitting sufferers to make lifelong connections. To study extra, go to hoag.org/schooling.
Heading up Crew Hoag for the previous 4 occasions, Diane will get choked up when interested by the occasion’s significance to sufferers.
“Sure cancers carry extra concern than others. Pancreatic most cancers is one which takes a affected person a couple of days or even weeks to sink in,” she mentioned. “I consider the sufferers that felt that they had no likelihood of survival at first, now dwelling a few years previous analysis. I give these sufferers an additional hug.”