Meet me in Dallas! It’s official. The agenda is set and the food is ordered for the first CURE Patient & Survivor Forum on May 22 and 23, 2004. We have assembled the best faculty in the country to address the most pressing questions in new research, treatment options, side effects, and psychosocial issues in cancer.

You can sign up online at www.curetoday.com/patientmeeting. It is our hope that this meeting is only the first of many CURE meetings that will be held around the country to bring together the two sides of healing in the cancer journey.

I am personally looking forward to meeting each of you and performing my humorous show, “One Mutant Cell,” at lunch on Saturday. Come to learn, laugh, and live it up with others who have shared this journey. There will be lots of networking time and representatives from some of the country’s major advocacy and support groups.

I am particularly excited that we are able to offer time and space for the formation meeting of the Association of Cancer Patient Educators. This group of folks from around the country will look at the needs of that select group of people who keep cancer patients educated about what is happening to them.
So sign up and meet me in Dallas!

This issue of CURE features colon cancer, which has many new enemies. And brain tumors may be harder to treat, but they too have a few new combinations that mean more time to find the final answer. Fatigue, our third feature, looks at a side effect that is experienced widely but often overlooked.

The new Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 brings real concerns for cancer patients, and you’ll read about how you can keep your voice heard.
Departments look at clinical trials, dealing with the loss of a parent, and secondhand smoke.

We know you are out there and remind ourselves daily that you are why we do this. If we have in any way given you one moment of peace, one moment of joy, or one bit of extra knowledge, our job is well done.

Kathy LaTour
Consulting Senior Editor