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A Cure In Sight (ACIS) is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the lives of those affected by ocular melanoma. Through education, patient support programs, advocacy, and research funding, ACIS works to raise awareness and accelerate progress toward better treatments and outcomes.
The Eye Believe Podcast, hosted by A Cure In Sight, brings together patients, caregivers, researchers, and medical professionals to share stories, discuss advances in ocular melanoma research, and highlight the strength of the community. The podcast’s mission is to inform, inspire, and give a voice to those impacted by ocular melanoma.
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Tuesday Feb 28, 2023
Join A Cure in Sight to briefly interview Yvonne, Presley, and Kenny; patients who are some of the “rare among the rare” or the RARE² in honor of Rare Disease Day. Yvonne, Presley, and Kenny show their stripes by expressing what navigating their journey with ocular melanoma has looked like–and how that has differed from the mainstream community.
Ocular melanoma is most commonly found in fair skinned, light eyed males over the age of 50 according to most statistics found online. These 3 patients demonstrate the statistics just don’t accurately depict those in our community who are here, living with OM, and who don’t “fit the mold” of the most common demographic diagnosed.
Meet Yvonne Loggins-Colemen, diagnosed in 2020 with ocular melanoma by sheer chance; rare among the rare as a woman of African American descent.
Meet Presley Jackson, diagnosed at the age of 13 with ocular melanoma, experiencing childhood eye cancer, and adjusting to the loss of vision and a great deal of uncertainty, while living as full of a life as a teen as he possibly can.
Meet Kenny Rains, diagnosed at the age of 29, far younger than most, and tackling life with new passion and perspective after navigating an immense mental health struggle that his diagnosis triggered.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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www.lookinforacure.org
Swing for Sight April 22, 2023
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*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
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The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Friday Feb 24, 2023
Join A Cure in Sight host, Danet Peterson, as well as 3 other omies for "Enucleation 101," part 1 of a 2 part episode release covering the varying experiences of enucleation of 4 patients, their tips for recovery, as well as their insights on the process as a whole.
Discussion of the prosthetic eye is not covered but we have plans to cover an ocularist and a panel of adjusting to the experience of having a prosthetic eye.
Panelists featured:
Clay Butler (primary enucleation)
Wendy Carpenter (enucleation after recurrence)
Danet Peterson (host) (enucleation after eye deterioration)
Alison Benjamin (primary enucleation)
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Head to our site to register for a 5K Lookin’ for a Cure near you!
www.lookinforacure.org
Swing for Sight April 22, 2023
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Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or Instagram @acureinsight, for more stories, tips, research news, and ideas to help you navigate this journey with OM!
*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
Donate $10 $15 $20 today to help A Cure in Sight in their quest to find a cure.
Contribute via PAYPAL OR VENMO or reach out directly to contact@acureinsight.org
The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Anne Osborn demonstrates and teaches the "how to" behind meditation, and offers a variety of meditation tools to add to your toolbox for "taming your lizard brain" and why this is important in navigating an ocular melanoma diagnosis.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Join for a discussion on various levels of spirituality and how we make meaning of the circumstances in our lives.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Jennifer Drew will present on coping with your diagnosis and your new normal.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Kathy Doocy and Wendy Carpenter will discuss turning their talents into healing, and how they refused to allow ocular melanoma to limit their ability to practice their talents.
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
A Cure in Sight is joined by omie, Kathy Doocy, co-author of The Happy Cookbook, The Simply Happy Cookbook, and The Happy in a Hurry Cookbook.
Kathy Doocy was previously the host of ESPN's Sidelines and worked at NBC. WHen Kathy and Steve got married and the kids came along, Kathy retired from her TV work to raise the family and preside as the Doocy family CEO and CFO, and she's enjoyed every single minute of it.
Steve and Kathy have Three grown children who moved out and now miss their parent's delicious home-cooked meals every day. they live in New Jersey.
Regarding the Happy Cookbook:
"The year before we started this project, Kathy was diagnosed with ocular melanoma, an unbelievably rare and aggressive form of eye cancer. She was lucky that they caught it early and she was treated by Dr. Carol Shields and her team of specialists at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. during her very first examination, Dr. Shields told Kathy, "I am going to save your life," and she did.
During her recovery, while taking stock of her life as many do when they've gone through something that life-changing, Kathy vowed to make it her personal quest to leave her children a written record of the foods they grew up loving. They don't cook much now, but they will someday.
This will always be a part of Kathy's legacy to Peter, Mary, and Sally, that whereever they travel in their lives, they'll always have a printed road map to their mom's signature suppers, provided they will actually cook and not order takeout on Uber Eats."
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Steps for Sight donations are still being gathered–share to help us fund research!
www.charityfootprints.com/SFS
Head to our site to register for a 5K Lookin’ for a Cure near you!
www.lookinforacure.org
Subscribe to the newsletter to stay in the know
Newsletter link
Email contact@acureinsight.org for questions regarding any upcoming events!
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Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or Instagram @acureinsight, for more stories, tips, research news, and ideas to help you navigate this journey with OM!
*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
Donate $10 $15 $20 today to help A Cure in Sight in their quest to find a cure.
Contribute via PAYPAL OR VENMO or reach out directly to contact@acureinsight.org
The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Friday Jan 27, 2023
Join Danet, the Eye Believe Podcast Host, to discuss unrealistic timelines in a cancer diagnosis. Can you relate!?
Make sure to share this episode with another omie today, and if you’re able, make a small donation to keep our podcast going!
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Steps for Sight Registration is open! It’s not to late to join us this month!
www.charityfootprints.com/SFS
Eye on Mental Health 2023 is now open for registration! Head to the site below to register!
Register at https://tinyurl.com/eyeonmentalhealth23
Subscribe to the newsletter to stay in the know
Newsletter link
Email contact@acureinsight.org for questions regarding any upcoming events!
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Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or Instagram @acureinsight, for more stories, tips, research news, and ideas to help you navigate this journey with OM!
*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
Donate $10 $15 $20 today to help A Cure in Sight in their quest to find a cure.
Contribute via PAYPAL OR VENMO or reach out directly to contact@acureinsight.org
The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
Tuesday Jan 24, 2023
A Cure in Sight is joined for a webinar titled: A Living Library for Uveal Melanoma with Dr. Lauren Dalvin, M.D.
"Uveal melanoma is the most common intraocular cancer in adults. Despite successful treatment of the eye tumor, up to 50% of patients with uveal melanoma will eventually develop metastatic disease. Unfortunately, there are limited effective treatment options once this cancer has spread. Thus, there is an urgent need for new, personalized therapies to improve survival for patients with uveal melanoma.
We have addressed a major barrier to uveal melanoma research, a lack of representative human disease models, by creating a unique biobank of patient-derived organoids. Organoids are three-dimensional models which simulate cancer behavior in the laboratory and can be used to study cancer biology and response to treatment. In both patients and in our laboratory, we find that each melanoma is unique. Using the collection of organoids in our lab, we will be able to study unique molecular signatures and identify personalized treatments for this cancer. Today we’ll talk about how we created these tiny tumor models and show you what it looks like to grow uveal melanoma in the lab."
Dr. Lauren A. Dalvin is a full-time Ocular Oncologist and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology with a joint appointment in Medical Oncology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Steps for Sight Registration is open! It’s not to late to join us this month!
www.charityfootprints.com/SFS
Eye on Mental Health 2023 is now open for registration! Head to the site below to register!
Register at https://tinyurl.com/eyeonmentalhealth23
Subscribe to the newsletter to stay in the know
Newsletter link
Email contact@acureinsight.org for questions regarding any upcoming events!
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Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or Instagram @acureinsight, for more stories, tips, research news, and ideas to help you navigate this journey with OM!
*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
Donate $10 $15 $20 today to help A Cure in Sight in their quest to find a cure.
Contribute via PAYPAL OR VENMO or reach out directly to contact@acureinsight.org
The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
The Eye Believe Podcast host, Danet Peterson, shares tips for navigating triggering dates throughout your diagnosis.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Steps for Sight Registration is open! It’s not to late to join us this month!
www.charityfootprints.com/SFS
Eye on Mental Health 2023 is now open for registration! Head to the site below to register!
Register at https://tinyurl.com/eyeonmentalhealth23
Subscribe to the newsletter to stay in the know
Newsletter link
Email contact@acureinsight.org for questions regarding any upcoming events!
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Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, or Instagram @acureinsight, for more stories, tips, research news, and ideas to help you navigate this journey with OM!
*A Cure in Sight is a 501c3 organization. All donations made can help fund our podcast to educate patients, fund research, aid patients, and more!
Donate $10 $15 $20 today to help A Cure in Sight in their quest to find a cure.
Contribute via PAYPAL OR VENMO or reach out directly to contact@acureinsight.org
The Eye Believe Podcast is brought to you by Castle Biosciences. Castle Biosciences is a leading diagnostics company improving health through innovative tests that guide patient care. The Company aims to transform disease management by keeping people first: patients, clinicians, employees and investors.
This podcast was hosted by Danet Peterson and produced by Page Fronczek.