Скачать или смотреть Rapid fire Q&A Episode 71: Lessons Learned from a Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis with Roger Royse

This is the rapid fire Q&A section of the Patient from Hell podcast Episode 71: From Anger to Advocacy - Lessons Learned from a Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis with Roger Royse

Questions include:

What is pancreatic cancer?
Is it important for patients to get a second opinion?
What is the best piece of advice you would give to someone newly diagnosed with pancreatic cancer?
What is the best piece of advice you would give to loved ones in supporting a patient like you?
What do you wish you had known before you got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer?

About our guest:

Roger Royse is a startup lawyer in Silicon Valley and a pancreatic cancer patient. Roger was diagnosed with stage 2B pancreatic adenocarcinoma in July 2022 after taking a multi cancer early detection blood test. After 6 months of chemotherapy and surgery and an experimental cancer vaccine, Roger currently has no evidence of disease as of July 2024.
Roger has been active for many years with the Leukemia Lymphoma Society having been its Bay area Man of the Year in 2012 and since his diagnosis has joined the board of the Cancer Patient Lab.org, a non profit dedicated to evidence based therapies and has created a community for cancer therapy technology startups to demo their solutions in person and online at www.cancerstartup.com. Roger has since testified to an FDA Advisory committee on multi cancer early detection and has been featured in many publications including the Wall Street Journal on MCED.
Roger believes in the patient being proactive and taking personal responsibility for their health and being very involved in their treatment decisions based on evidence based treatments.


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