October 1, 2025 • 21 mins
Cincinnati Cancer Advisors (CCA) is an oncology consultation practice that provides - free of charge - second opinions on diagnoses and treatment plans, care coordination, clinical trial navigation, genetic testing and counseling to nearly 600 Greater Cincinnatians diagnosed with cancer each year. This type of care is found only here in Cincinnati, and in Naples, Florida, a satellite program.
My guests explain how the program changes lives and how to get the team to assist with a cancer patients care & treatment.
Lana Uhrig, Executive Director of Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, the funding arm for CCA.
Sherry Hughes, Director of Stategic Engagement. The former WCPO Meterologist uses her cancer journey to fuel her work to help fellow patients get the best care.
CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS WEBSITE
REQUEST A NO-COST CONSULTION HERE
eMAIL: information@cincinnaticanceradvisors.org
call: 513-731-2273 (CARE_
address:
4805 Montgomery Rd.
Suite 130
Cincinnati, OH 45212
My guests explain how the program changes lives and how to get the team to assist with a cancer patients care & treatment.
Lana Uhrig, Executive Director of Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, the funding arm for CCA.
Sherry Hughes, Director of Stategic Engagement. The former WCPO Meterologist uses her cancer journey to fuel her work to help fellow patients get the best care.
CINCINNATI CANCER ADVISORS WEBSITE
REQUEST A NO-COST CONSULTION HERE
eMAIL: information@cincinnaticanceradvisors.org
call: 513-731-2273 (CARE_
address:
4805 Montgomery Rd.
Suite 130
Cincinnati, OH 45212
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This week on iHeart since I think we really can
beat cancer. We can kick cancers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know what, a lot of people are working every
day to.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Do just that.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Here in Cincinnati, as the C word strikes fear in
the hearts of friends and family, the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation
has committed millions of dollars to find cures and help
patients survive and thrive. And they're oncology doctors. Cincinnati Cancer
Advisors use their collective knowledge and experience to give no
cost second opinions on cancer diagnoses and treatments, working hand
(00:33):
in hand with patients doctors to give them patients the
best care possible. My guests today from the Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation are here to explain that and their decision to
spread the money raise to other cancer providers, nonprofits and
researchers in our area to improve their programs and take
better care of people right here at home and later.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And what happens is is those lithium ion batteries kind
of expand.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Lithium ion batteries are everywhere, computers, phones, e bikes, many
more modern conveniences. Here today to talk about lithium ion batteries,
why they become dangerous, on how to prevent that a
firefighter medic from Blue Ash Fire Department with an open
invitation to their upcoming open house and to learn more
about those convenient batteries that can catch fire. Now on
(01:16):
iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins, Welcome back. This is iHeart Cincy.
I'm Sandy Collins. Today we're going to be talking about
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, which is in the Tristate area,
has done such tremendous work for cancer research and for
people who are living with cancer. The Cincinnati Cancer Advisors
(01:39):
is oncology practice that actually provide second opinions to people
who get that threaded a cancer diagnosis and needs somebody
else to talk to. Somebody. Fire Department is opening up
in stores for an open how they have a team
approach and we're going to talk about that today, plus
Right Cincinnati and grants that are becoming available thanks to
(02:03):
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. So let's welcome in Lana Yurig.
She's the executive director of Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. Hello, Leanna, Hi,
very nice to meet you. San, nice to meet you,
and everybody knows Sherri Hughes. She's a spokesperson and director
of Strategic Engagement at Cincinnati Cancer Foundation.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hi, it's so nicey, Sandy. It's good to be in
your space, your orbit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're sweet. I love this organization. You know, we've done
Right Cincinnati with the family before and talked to several
times several years in a row, talked about Right Cincinnati.
But now we're getting to the meat of it. We're
getting to the people that are taking the money and
doing things with it. So let's talk about that today.
You guys have done just tremendous work. Tell me about
(02:46):
the concept of the doctors and the teams giving second
opinions to people that get the cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Sure, yeah, I'm happy to answer that and feel free
to jump in also, Shary. So this service began and
back in twenty fifteen with doctor William Barrett, who's our founder,
who's doing this on the weekends. Something he identified was
that patients were oftentimes leaving the community because they felt
like they couldn't get the care here. They didn't know
for sure if the care here was adequate, and so
(03:14):
he was just you know, he's mister Cincinnati and just
deep in his heart wants people to feel like they
can get the very best care right here in Cincinnati.
And so this service really was born out of people
who were calling him and saying, Bill, my mother, my sister,
my brother has cancer.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What should we do?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And so it kind of started as kind of off
the cuff second opinions and helping people really navigate that
chaos of an initial diagnosis and help them feel comfortable
with their care, whether that be here or just getting
them to the right place. And we have five large
health systems here in this community, and we've got great
cancer care, and we want people to feel like they
(03:53):
can stay close to home for that. And so that's
really our goal at the Cincinnati Cancer Advisors is to
be able to have people get a second opinion via
an expert oncologist who is specialized in the subspecialty areas
of cancer care, so a specialist in lung cancer and
cross state cancer, breast cancer, melanoma. We can cover all
(04:16):
of those various cancer diagnosis and help people review the
treatment plan they're on, make sure they feel confident in it.
And really it's about helping them be empowered to make
the best decisions about their own care and really give
them agency.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
In the whole conversation, Sherry talking about a second opinion
and getting that tell us about that what it looks
like from maybe beginning to end.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well. First of all, Sincin Nay Cancer Foundation is the
overarching source that helps to provide the funding for patients
and those that like myself, that find themselves having had
or have a cancer diagnosis. It's a real simple process, Sandy,
and it doesn't take as long as some would think.
(05:00):
Because we are a clinical oncology practice. Patient here gets
to just call us up and say I've been diagnosed
and I want to see someone and get a second opinion,
and I want to learn more about my cancer. I
want to find out what else might be available. And
they simply can either go online and go to our
website at Dustin Sendycanceradvisors dot org, or they can just
(05:23):
simply give us a phone call and they'll be greeted
with a wonderful friendly voice Christine. Most times that will
say how can I help you? And we take it
from there. You tell us when you were diagnosed, who
your physician is, and our clinical team will go right
to work right away to collect all the data what
the patient has already received, and then our doctors get
(05:44):
a chance to look at it, do a case review,
and if there's something that is missing that they feel like, hey,
they need a different type of test as well, then
of course they'll put that in their recommendation list and
send it to not only the physician or speak to
the physician about it, but they'll also in full transparency
that over to the actual patient. So it's a very
simplistic process, but the benefits of it are is just tremendous.
(06:07):
Of what you're getting. You're getting your team partnered with
another team and everyone working on your behalf to try
to give you the best care possible. Make sure that
you get the best care possible.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And the remarkable part is that the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation
funds This doesn't cost the patient a thing. That is remarkable.
There's no insurance concerns. You just give a call and
get some help.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, Atlanta can speak to that because you know she's
our executive director of the foundation and the Foundation's mission, Lanta,
and with the mission of Cincinnati Cancer Advisors really is
just to help people that are diagnosed and to help
decrease the uncertainty, make sure that they're getting that great
plan of care and decrease the mortality and all of
(06:57):
the chaos around that diagnosis just to help that patient.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And it all starts because of generous donations from people
in the community who support the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, support
Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. And we're just so grateful for the
people who have had the opportunity to experience the services themselves,
who become grateful patients and tell everyone about us, and
for those in the community that have chosen us to
(07:22):
support very very diligently for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Looking at Ride Cincinnati, which is the major fund raiser,
if you will, for the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation and the Advisors.
You just had that in September. How did that go? Well,
it was wore tell you where she rode her last mile.
But that's a cool story.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
But so it was a beautiful day and the team
from the Ride Cincinnati Foundation who really did all of
the work to put this together, you know, kind of
the history of that. It started with Marlene Harris, her
passing away from breast cancer and her family coming together
and it's been over eighteen years now and.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
This was a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Became more community focused again like it had been a
few years ago, and we had nearly eleven hundred riders
right now we're just under six hundred thousand dollars raised,
which is so exciting. There's still money coming yes, and
there's still money coming in. We think that number will increase.
And I should say Sherry rode her last mile in Ireland.
(08:31):
She is such a dedicated Ride participant. She got on
a bike and put on her uniform and hellowed her
last mile in Ireland and sent us a video of
it so we could show it on the big screen
at Ride.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yes, it was wonderful Cork, Ireland, Castle Martyr that their
whole staff was so excited about it because they had
people in Ireland and on their staff that had been
diagnosed in dealing with a cancer, so they were all
for it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So what's so amazing this year is that in the
past the money had only gone to research, and so
this year and this is the first year that it's
coming into the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. And so with this
we're able to flip the model so that it not
only supports research, which we want to continue to support research,
(09:23):
but through this collaborative effort with Ride Cincinnati Foundation and
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, it will support second opinions, but
it will also support competitive grants for the community, and
that's hospital systems, that's cancer programs that support patient care,
and it could be a research study, it could be
(09:44):
a community grant that helps ladies get wigs after they've
had cancer, or maybe transportation to and from visits. And
so the grant process just kicked off and the grants
will be due October thirteenth, and so we've just had
our first submitted and everybody's so excited and we're going
to go through the whole grant review process and the
(10:06):
excitement of being able to take that money and we're
going to be able to help so many people across
the community.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So she just described several of the different kinds of entities,
community groups, whatever that might provide services for cancer patients
and their families. Can you go a little bit more
into detail so that maybe if it's not resonating yet,
you know, we could we could apply for that grant
because we do this for right cancer.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Right you know what, Well, if you were trying to
work on behalf of those diagnosed with the cancer. You're
a nonprofit per se and you and you're out there,
you know, in the in the trenches every day working
to help people with their support and maybe feed them
our love on them or give them different services. That's
the people that we are looking for grants because we
(10:56):
want to recognize that you're doing the work, you're part
of the process. It helps the people to be able
to get get on their feet, to recover, to heal. Course,
we invite everyone, so this is an open invitation to
the community as a whole. It's not just the hospital
systems that are doing the work, the doctors and the
(11:16):
nurses and the clinicians. You know, we have everyday people
that have maybe because of loved ones that have passed away,
that they've started their own small foundation like the Erica J.
Holloman Foundation for triple negative breast cancer. Organizations like that
are your you know, pink ribbon goods.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We invite all of these type organizations to come in
and say, hey, we're doing this work and we want
to apply for grant so that we could do more Sandy,
we could help more, you know, because they're limited in
what they can do the scope of it with the
funds that they have. They're dependent upon the community as well.
But now we're saying, hey, we're here, and these grants
are here and we want to we want to show
(11:56):
you that we see you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You know, we want to show you that we hear you.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And we know that is a struggle. So all of
us together saying they can do some really great things.
You know, I think we really can beat cancer. We
can kick cancers, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And there are just a few eligibility criteria and I'll
just just quickly say that, So you must be a
directly or indirectly serve cancer patients within the greater Cincinnati area.
You have to align with the Right Cincinnati's mission to
improve cancer care, research, access, and support. You must form
and register a Ride Cincinnati team. Not that we were
asking nonprofits to fundraise, but just to participate and really
(12:34):
show that community support so that as people are giving
their money they see that presence there. And then they
must be a nonprofit or healthcare institution and good standing
and demonstrate ability to manage grant funds. And so the
grant categories are direct patient care support, access to care initiatives,
support in psychological programs, collaborative impact projects, clinical research, translational
(12:59):
or bench science research. So it really does cover the
whole gamut.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
If you just joined us, I'm speaking with Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation Executive Director Lana Yurig and the director of Strategic Engagement,
Sherrie Hughes. You will remember her from her days on
television here in Cincinnati. This grant process that has just
opened up for folks that take care of cancer patients
and research, and so we'll give you some information on
(13:26):
how you can sign up for that and get more
information here in just a second. But Cherry wanted to
ask you about do you have any real world examples
of people that got a second opinion that it really
changed their plan or in some way took them in
a different direction and it worked out for them.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, we've had patients actually that would come in
to Cincinnati Cancer Advisors and they've had a diagnosis and
our clinicians agree with their clinicians the diagnosis is what
it is. But we've seen where patient and that exhibited
with breast cancer did not get any kind of testing
for the brain. And oftentimes some breast cancers metastasize and
(14:10):
the central nervous system is where they like to go,
the CNS. And so we've had patients that came in
and with our recommendation, her physicians were able to go
back and give her more thorough testing and found that
she did have some alesions in the brain and that
impacts Sandy the treatment, So that had to go back
(14:33):
and be revisited so that they could make sure that
here it is that we see that there is a
metastasis within the brain.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's a huge thing.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
And we've also seen Doctor Barrett has been very open
about one of his I guess cases that he had
once before prior to CINCINNTI Cancer Advisors, with a young
man who was diagnosed with a cancer. They thought, and
he looked at it and brought some other people in
and realized that just before the child is getting ready
to go have chemo treatments, that it was not a cancer. So,
(15:05):
you know, those types of findings are far and few
in between.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You don't normally see that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Oftentimes, what our doctors see are some very alignable agreeance
with the diagnoses. However, there are other factors like oftentimes
our patients come in and say they have not even
been touched for a examination, So our doctors have found
blood clots that impacts the treatment, and you don't want
(15:31):
to give someone a treatment like you know, modality like
chemo a radiation and they are, you know, have a
blood clot So there's a lot that can be gleaned
by that second opinion. And we're working also, let me say, collaboratively.
You know, we are there for the patient and full transparency,
but we're also there for the physicians in full transparency.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
We want to be an extension.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We want to be a help for the entire process
for the patient and also for the clinicians.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
When you were diagnosed, how long ago was that?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Oh, Praise the Lord, it was over sixty years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, no, I'm still here. I'm still standing. Yes, yeah, yea, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know, it's such an emotional time and outside looking
in on cancer diagnosis in my family, I have never
met a more positive group of people than oncologists and
more hopeful doctors.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You just feel that support? Did you feel that? First
of all?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You know, I felt a lot of things, and I
mean you take me back there. First I felt like
I was trapped in a whirlwind, like Okay, what do
I do?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Where do I go? How do I do this?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But after getting out of this, then of course that's
when I you know, started to tell my story, share
my story, and of course.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I got my opinion.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
While I was going through with CINCINNTI Cancer Advisors for
medicines and for treatment thereafter. But I felt a lot
of love and a lot of support from the Cincinnati community.
And what I want, Sandy, is for each patient that's
diagnosed to get as much, if not more, of that
(17:15):
kind of support and that love and people helping them
as I did from this community. I was a little
people knew me from television from CPO, so I you know,
I was bombarded with the love. You know, so much
of it that I wish I could bottle it up
and save it for someone else. But what my heart
wants is for each person that hears the words you
have cancer, I want them to be able to get
(17:38):
as much of what I got from the community and
from people out there to want to help. And I
have to say, that's what's the Sandy Cancer Advisors, that's
what we're doing. We're trying to make sure that they
know you are not alone. We are here with you.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And we don't care how much money you make.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
That's what we're not asking. We're not asking for any
of that.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We're asking you to come, come and find out come
and let us help you as you're being helped with
your team, whoever they may be, because we're independent, so
it doesn't matter if the patient is at christ saying Elizabeth,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We are here to
work with that patient and with their docs.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We're pretty fortunate to have the community we have here
that really has wrapped their arms around the service and
sees the value that it brings.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It might be obvious to people why Cincinnati has such
an impact, but you know, you've got to think about
the manufacturers and the companies that are here that fuel
this community, that fuel their philanthropic efforts. That is all
so important, and it all comes down to to that.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
It's the generosity of this community. Of course, it takes
all of us to you know, be in lockstep, to
hold hands and to say together we're making that difference.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Saying if everybody does a little, nobody has to do
a lot. And I think the beauty of what we're
doing now with the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation now we want
to spread that now to other organizations that also like,
we can't do everything, we can't provide all the services,
but that's where we come together. The fabric of the
community and that's where the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. People can
(19:20):
feel good about they give their money to the SINCINNTI
Cancer Foundation. We help make sure it gets out to
the organizations that need that help. People can feel comfortable
giving their money too, and we're going to get it
in the hands of the people that need it most.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And there's no competition here.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There's a fight that the Bear wants Cincinnati to be
the place to live to be if you get that diagnosis,
because you know that you're going to be able to
get the help and support that you need.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So we are still able to make donations for the
ride up until October thirteenth. Then that's all on the
page on the right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
If you just google Rights Cincinnati, it'll take you right
to the page. And then if you're interested in applying
for the grants, the grant application is right there on
the site. It goes through all the criteria and everything
to apply for the grant. If you have your grant
and you're working on it, you submit it to grants
at CCF Hypheninc dot org. We're going to be kicking
(20:22):
off after the thirteenth in November, the grant review process.
In December, we'll be making the announcements in January, We're
going to do a huge celebration in check presentation to
all of the winners of the grant.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Should be so much fun. So Atlanta Urig, executive director
of the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, and Sherry Hughes, a director
of Strategic Engagement who works hand in hand to better
the lives of people with cancer through this Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation and the Cincinnati Cancer Advisor's Second Opinion Program, thank
(20:54):
you both so much for being here. Thanks you, baby.
If you have any questions, you can just give them
a call, come back and let us know how it goes.
Will you come back maybe in after you've made decisions,
we'll see. We would welcome that. We'll talk about who
gets the money and what they're planning to do with it. Yeah,
all right, stand by.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Open to all ages.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
We have a ton of fun activities planned that kids
can come and look at the trucks, can spray a
fire hose.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
For Fire Prevention Week, the Blue Ash Fire Department is
opening up its doors for an open house, a fun
way to teach fire safety and give you information about
those lithium ion batteries. That's next on iHeart Sinsey
This week on iHeart since I think we really can
beat cancer. We can kick cancers.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
You know what, a lot of people are working every
day to.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Do just that.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Here in Cincinnati, as the C word strikes fear in
the hearts of friends and family, the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation
has committed millions of dollars to find cures and help
patients survive and thrive. And they're oncology doctors. Cincinnati Cancer
Advisors use their collective knowledge and experience to give no
cost second opinions on cancer diagnoses and treatments, working hand
(00:33):
in hand with patients doctors to give them patients the
best care possible. My guests today from the Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation are here to explain that and their decision to
spread the money raise to other cancer providers, nonprofits and
researchers in our area to improve their programs and take
better care of people right here at home and later.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
And what happens is is those lithium ion batteries kind
of expand.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Lithium ion batteries are everywhere, computers, phones, e bikes, many
more modern conveniences. Here today to talk about lithium ion batteries,
why they become dangerous, on how to prevent that a
firefighter medic from Blue Ash Fire Department with an open
invitation to their upcoming open house and to learn more
about those convenient batteries that can catch fire. Now on
(01:16):
iHeart Sinsey with Sandy Collins, Welcome back. This is iHeart Cincy.
I'm Sandy Collins. Today we're going to be talking about
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, which is in the Tristate area,
has done such tremendous work for cancer research and for
people who are living with cancer. The Cincinnati Cancer Advisors
(01:39):
is oncology practice that actually provide second opinions to people
who get that threaded a cancer diagnosis and needs somebody
else to talk to. Somebody. Fire Department is opening up
in stores for an open how they have a team
approach and we're going to talk about that today, plus
Right Cincinnati and grants that are becoming available thanks to
(02:03):
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. So let's welcome in Lana Yurig.
She's the executive director of Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. Hello, Leanna, Hi,
very nice to meet you. San, nice to meet you,
and everybody knows Sherri Hughes. She's a spokesperson and director
of Strategic Engagement at Cincinnati Cancer Foundation.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Hi, it's so nicey, Sandy. It's good to be in
your space, your orbit.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
You're sweet. I love this organization. You know, we've done
Right Cincinnati with the family before and talked to several
times several years in a row, talked about Right Cincinnati.
But now we're getting to the meat of it. We're
getting to the people that are taking the money and
doing things with it. So let's talk about that today.
You guys have done just tremendous work. Tell me about
(02:46):
the concept of the doctors and the teams giving second
opinions to people that get the cancer diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Sure, yeah, I'm happy to answer that and feel free
to jump in also, Shary. So this service began and
back in twenty fifteen with doctor William Barrett, who's our founder,
who's doing this on the weekends. Something he identified was
that patients were oftentimes leaving the community because they felt
like they couldn't get the care here. They didn't know
for sure if the care here was adequate, and so
(03:14):
he was just you know, he's mister Cincinnati and just
deep in his heart wants people to feel like they
can get the very best care right here in Cincinnati.
And so this service really was born out of people
who were calling him and saying, Bill, my mother, my sister,
my brother has cancer.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
What should we do?
Speaker 3 (03:32):
And so it kind of started as kind of off
the cuff second opinions and helping people really navigate that
chaos of an initial diagnosis and help them feel comfortable
with their care, whether that be here or just getting
them to the right place. And we have five large
health systems here in this community, and we've got great
cancer care, and we want people to feel like they
(03:53):
can stay close to home for that. And so that's
really our goal at the Cincinnati Cancer Advisors is to
be able to have people get a second opinion via
an expert oncologist who is specialized in the subspecialty areas
of cancer care, so a specialist in lung cancer and
cross state cancer, breast cancer, melanoma. We can cover all
(04:16):
of those various cancer diagnosis and help people review the
treatment plan they're on, make sure they feel confident in it.
And really it's about helping them be empowered to make
the best decisions about their own care and really give
them agency.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
In the whole conversation, Sherry talking about a second opinion
and getting that tell us about that what it looks
like from maybe beginning to end.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well. First of all, Sincin Nay Cancer Foundation is the
overarching source that helps to provide the funding for patients
and those that like myself, that find themselves having had
or have a cancer diagnosis. It's a real simple process, Sandy,
and it doesn't take as long as some would think.
(05:00):
Because we are a clinical oncology practice. Patient here gets
to just call us up and say I've been diagnosed
and I want to see someone and get a second opinion,
and I want to learn more about my cancer. I
want to find out what else might be available. And
they simply can either go online and go to our
website at Dustin Sendycanceradvisors dot org, or they can just
(05:23):
simply give us a phone call and they'll be greeted
with a wonderful friendly voice Christine. Most times that will
say how can I help you? And we take it
from there. You tell us when you were diagnosed, who
your physician is, and our clinical team will go right
to work right away to collect all the data what
the patient has already received, and then our doctors get
(05:44):
a chance to look at it, do a case review,
and if there's something that is missing that they feel like, hey,
they need a different type of test as well, then
of course they'll put that in their recommendation list and
send it to not only the physician or speak to
the physician about it, but they'll also in full transparency
that over to the actual patient. So it's a very
simplistic process, but the benefits of it are is just tremendous.
(06:07):
Of what you're getting. You're getting your team partnered with
another team and everyone working on your behalf to try
to give you the best care possible. Make sure that
you get the best care possible.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
And the remarkable part is that the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation
funds This doesn't cost the patient a thing. That is remarkable.
There's no insurance concerns. You just give a call and
get some help.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Yeah, Atlanta can speak to that because you know she's
our executive director of the foundation and the Foundation's mission, Lanta,
and with the mission of Cincinnati Cancer Advisors really is
just to help people that are diagnosed and to help
decrease the uncertainty, make sure that they're getting that great
plan of care and decrease the mortality and all of
(06:57):
the chaos around that diagnosis just to help that patient.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
And it all starts because of generous donations from people
in the community who support the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, support
Cincinnati Cancer Advisors. And we're just so grateful for the
people who have had the opportunity to experience the services themselves,
who become grateful patients and tell everyone about us, and
for those in the community that have chosen us to
(07:22):
support very very diligently for a number of years.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Looking at Ride Cincinnati, which is the major fund raiser,
if you will, for the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation and the Advisors.
You just had that in September. How did that go? Well,
it was wore tell you where she rode her last mile.
But that's a cool story.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
But so it was a beautiful day and the team
from the Ride Cincinnati Foundation who really did all of
the work to put this together, you know, kind of
the history of that. It started with Marlene Harris, her
passing away from breast cancer and her family coming together
and it's been over eighteen years now and.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
This was a little bit different this year.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Became more community focused again like it had been a
few years ago, and we had nearly eleven hundred riders
right now we're just under six hundred thousand dollars raised,
which is so exciting. There's still money coming yes, and
there's still money coming in. We think that number will increase.
And I should say Sherry rode her last mile in Ireland.
(08:31):
She is such a dedicated Ride participant. She got on
a bike and put on her uniform and hellowed her
last mile in Ireland and sent us a video of
it so we could show it on the big screen
at Ride.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
Yes, it was wonderful Cork, Ireland, Castle Martyr that their
whole staff was so excited about it because they had
people in Ireland and on their staff that had been
diagnosed in dealing with a cancer, so they were all
for it.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
So what's so amazing this year is that in the
past the money had only gone to research, and so
this year and this is the first year that it's
coming into the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. And so with this
we're able to flip the model so that it not
only supports research, which we want to continue to support research,
(09:23):
but through this collaborative effort with Ride Cincinnati Foundation and
the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, it will support second opinions, but
it will also support competitive grants for the community, and
that's hospital systems, that's cancer programs that support patient care,
and it could be a research study, it could be
(09:44):
a community grant that helps ladies get wigs after they've
had cancer, or maybe transportation to and from visits. And
so the grant process just kicked off and the grants
will be due October thirteenth, and so we've just had
our first submitted and everybody's so excited and we're going
to go through the whole grant review process and the
(10:06):
excitement of being able to take that money and we're
going to be able to help so many people across
the community.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
So she just described several of the different kinds of entities,
community groups, whatever that might provide services for cancer patients
and their families. Can you go a little bit more
into detail so that maybe if it's not resonating yet,
you know, we could we could apply for that grant
because we do this for right cancer.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Right you know what, Well, if you were trying to
work on behalf of those diagnosed with the cancer. You're
a nonprofit per se and you and you're out there,
you know, in the in the trenches every day working
to help people with their support and maybe feed them
our love on them or give them different services. That's
the people that we are looking for grants because we
(10:56):
want to recognize that you're doing the work, you're part
of the process. It helps the people to be able
to get get on their feet, to recover, to heal. Course,
we invite everyone, so this is an open invitation to
the community as a whole. It's not just the hospital
systems that are doing the work, the doctors and the
(11:16):
nurses and the clinicians. You know, we have everyday people
that have maybe because of loved ones that have passed away,
that they've started their own small foundation like the Erica J.
Holloman Foundation for triple negative breast cancer. Organizations like that
are your you know, pink ribbon goods.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
We invite all of these type organizations to come in
and say, hey, we're doing this work and we want
to apply for grant so that we could do more Sandy,
we could help more, you know, because they're limited in
what they can do the scope of it with the
funds that they have. They're dependent upon the community as well.
But now we're saying, hey, we're here, and these grants
are here and we want to we want to show
(11:56):
you that we see you.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
You know, we want to show you that we hear you.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And we know that is a struggle. So all of
us together saying they can do some really great things.
You know, I think we really can beat cancer. We
can kick cancers, you know what.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
And there are just a few eligibility criteria and I'll
just just quickly say that, So you must be a
directly or indirectly serve cancer patients within the greater Cincinnati area.
You have to align with the Right Cincinnati's mission to
improve cancer care, research, access, and support. You must form
and register a Ride Cincinnati team. Not that we were
asking nonprofits to fundraise, but just to participate and really
(12:34):
show that community support so that as people are giving
their money they see that presence there. And then they
must be a nonprofit or healthcare institution and good standing
and demonstrate ability to manage grant funds. And so the
grant categories are direct patient care support, access to care initiatives,
support in psychological programs, collaborative impact projects, clinical research, translational
(12:59):
or bench science research. So it really does cover the
whole gamut.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
If you just joined us, I'm speaking with Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation Executive Director Lana Yurig and the director of Strategic Engagement,
Sherrie Hughes. You will remember her from her days on
television here in Cincinnati. This grant process that has just
opened up for folks that take care of cancer patients
and research, and so we'll give you some information on
(13:26):
how you can sign up for that and get more
information here in just a second. But Cherry wanted to
ask you about do you have any real world examples
of people that got a second opinion that it really
changed their plan or in some way took them in
a different direction and it worked out for them.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
I mean, we've had patients actually that would come in
to Cincinnati Cancer Advisors and they've had a diagnosis and
our clinicians agree with their clinicians the diagnosis is what
it is. But we've seen where patient and that exhibited
with breast cancer did not get any kind of testing
for the brain. And oftentimes some breast cancers metastasize and
(14:10):
the central nervous system is where they like to go,
the CNS. And so we've had patients that came in
and with our recommendation, her physicians were able to go
back and give her more thorough testing and found that
she did have some alesions in the brain and that
impacts Sandy the treatment, So that had to go back
(14:33):
and be revisited so that they could make sure that
here it is that we see that there is a
metastasis within the brain.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
That's a huge thing.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
And we've also seen Doctor Barrett has been very open
about one of his I guess cases that he had
once before prior to CINCINNTI Cancer Advisors, with a young
man who was diagnosed with a cancer. They thought, and
he looked at it and brought some other people in
and realized that just before the child is getting ready
to go have chemo treatments, that it was not a cancer. So,
(15:05):
you know, those types of findings are far and few
in between.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
You don't normally see that.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Oftentimes, what our doctors see are some very alignable agreeance
with the diagnoses. However, there are other factors like oftentimes
our patients come in and say they have not even
been touched for a examination, So our doctors have found
blood clots that impacts the treatment, and you don't want
(15:31):
to give someone a treatment like you know, modality like
chemo a radiation and they are, you know, have a
blood clot So there's a lot that can be gleaned
by that second opinion. And we're working also, let me say, collaboratively.
You know, we are there for the patient and full transparency,
but we're also there for the physicians in full transparency.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
We want to be an extension.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
We want to be a help for the entire process
for the patient and also for the clinicians.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
When you were diagnosed, how long ago was that?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
Oh, Praise the Lord, it was over sixty years ago.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, no, I'm still here. I'm still standing. Yes, yeah, yea, yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
You know, it's such an emotional time and outside looking
in on cancer diagnosis in my family, I have never
met a more positive group of people than oncologists and
more hopeful doctors.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
You just feel that support? Did you feel that? First
of all?
Speaker 4 (16:34):
You know, I felt a lot of things, and I
mean you take me back there. First I felt like
I was trapped in a whirlwind, like Okay, what do
I do?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Where do I go? How do I do this?
Speaker 4 (16:45):
But after getting out of this, then of course that's
when I you know, started to tell my story, share
my story, and of course.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I got my opinion.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
While I was going through with CINCINNTI Cancer Advisors for
medicines and for treatment thereafter. But I felt a lot
of love and a lot of support from the Cincinnati community.
And what I want, Sandy, is for each patient that's
diagnosed to get as much, if not more, of that
(17:15):
kind of support and that love and people helping them
as I did from this community. I was a little
people knew me from television from CPO, so I you know,
I was bombarded with the love. You know, so much
of it that I wish I could bottle it up
and save it for someone else. But what my heart
wants is for each person that hears the words you
have cancer, I want them to be able to get
(17:38):
as much of what I got from the community and
from people out there to want to help. And I
have to say, that's what's the Sandy Cancer Advisors, that's
what we're doing. We're trying to make sure that they
know you are not alone. We are here with you.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
And we don't care how much money you make.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
That's what we're not asking. We're not asking for any
of that.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We're asking you to come, come and find out come
and let us help you as you're being helped with
your team, whoever they may be, because we're independent, so
it doesn't matter if the patient is at christ saying Elizabeth,
it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. We are here to
work with that patient and with their docs.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
We're pretty fortunate to have the community we have here
that really has wrapped their arms around the service and
sees the value that it brings.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
It might be obvious to people why Cincinnati has such
an impact, but you know, you've got to think about
the manufacturers and the companies that are here that fuel
this community, that fuel their philanthropic efforts. That is all
so important, and it all comes down to to that.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
It's the generosity of this community. Of course, it takes
all of us to you know, be in lockstep, to
hold hands and to say together we're making that difference.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Saying if everybody does a little, nobody has to do
a lot. And I think the beauty of what we're
doing now with the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation now we want
to spread that now to other organizations that also like,
we can't do everything, we can't provide all the services,
but that's where we come together. The fabric of the
community and that's where the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation. People can
(19:20):
feel good about they give their money to the SINCINNTI
Cancer Foundation. We help make sure it gets out to
the organizations that need that help. People can feel comfortable
giving their money too, and we're going to get it
in the hands of the people that need it most.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
And there's no competition here.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
There's a fight that the Bear wants Cincinnati to be
the place to live to be if you get that diagnosis,
because you know that you're going to be able to
get the help and support that you need.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
So we are still able to make donations for the
ride up until October thirteenth. Then that's all on the
page on the right.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
If you just google Rights Cincinnati, it'll take you right
to the page. And then if you're interested in applying
for the grants, the grant application is right there on
the site. It goes through all the criteria and everything
to apply for the grant. If you have your grant
and you're working on it, you submit it to grants
at CCF Hypheninc dot org. We're going to be kicking
(20:22):
off after the thirteenth in November, the grant review process.
In December, we'll be making the announcements in January, We're
going to do a huge celebration in check presentation to
all of the winners of the grant.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Should be so much fun. So Atlanta Urig, executive director
of the Cincinnati Cancer Foundation, and Sherry Hughes, a director
of Strategic Engagement who works hand in hand to better
the lives of people with cancer through this Cincinnati Cancer
Foundation and the Cincinnati Cancer Advisor's Second Opinion Program, thank
(20:54):
you both so much for being here. Thanks you, baby.
If you have any questions, you can just give them
a call, come back and let us know how it goes.
Will you come back maybe in after you've made decisions,
we'll see. We would welcome that. We'll talk about who
gets the money and what they're planning to do with it. Yeah,
all right, stand by.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
Open to all ages.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
We have a ton of fun activities planned that kids
can come and look at the trucks, can spray a
fire hose.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
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