The 15th Annual Lundberg Institute Lecture: Cancer Commons
The Lundberg Institute marks the 15th anniversary of the California nonprofit Cancer Commons by dedicating its 15th annual lecture at Commonwealth Club World Affairs to a discussion of the unique approach Cancer Commons takes to helping cancer patients.
Since its founding, Cancer Commons has delivered personalized, evidence-based guidance at no charge to more than 10,000 patients and caregivers, supported entirely by philanthropy. They provide patients and their care teams with the actionable information and data needed to make informed decisions, and help identify and access an individualized regimen of therapies that specifically target the molecular drivers of their disease. Cancer Commons also refers patients to a myriad of precision oncology services to help them navigate the cancer maze and minimize trial and error.
As Cancer Commons helps patients in this way—identifying and accessing novel tests, treatments, and trials—we learn continuously from each patient's experience.
And then share that knowledge with the world.
A Humanities Member-led Forum program. Forums at the Club are organized and run by volunteer programmers who are members of The Commonwealth Club, and they cover a diverse range of topics. Learn more about our Forums.
Speaker photos courtesy the speakers; microscope photo: Dmytro Vynohradov/Unsplash; test tubes photo: Louis Reed/Unsplash.
Clifford A. Reid
Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Cancer Commons; serial entrepreneur in genomics and enterprise software development companies
Emma Shtivelman
Ph.D., Chief Scientist, Cancer Commons; molecular and cell biologist with special expertise in cancer drug development
Jay Tenenbaum
Ph.D,, Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Cancer Commons; internet entrepreneur; Founder, CommerceNet; long-term survivor of metastatic melanoma
Introduction by George Lundberg
M.D., Editor in Chief, Cancer Commons; Editor at Large, Medscape; Clinical Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University; President and Chair, The Lundberg Institute
George Hammond
Author, Conversations With Socrates—Moderator
