Spring 2004
Welcome to the first Avenues of 2004. Last year was a tremendous year
for the Pine Street Foundation and we want to thank all of you for your
invaluable and generous support; we couldn't have done it without you.
This year promises to be even more exciting and ambitious. We're planning
on:
PUBLISHING the results of our work on Canine Scent
Detection of Cancer in a major medical journal.
APPLYING FOR GRANT FUNDING to launch new studies that
expand on this work, and other new projects:
· Canine Scent Detection For Early Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
in Developing Countries:A Randomized Controlled Diagnostic Trial. (In
collaboration with Professor Tadeusz Jezierski, Polish Academy of Sciences.)
· Canine Scent Detection For Early Diagnosis of Lung Cancer
in Developing Countries:A Randomized Controlled Diagnostic Trial. (In
collaboration with Professor Tadeusz Jezierski, Polish Academy of Sciences.)
· Chinese Herbal Medicine and Chemotherapy for Lung Cancer:
A Randomized Controlled Trial. (In collaboration with Alan Kramer,
MD, San Francisco Oncology, and Ben Pfeifer, MD, Aeskulap Clinic, Switzerland.)
DEVELOPING our Institutional Review Board (IRB), an
internal ethics board that oversees and governs all of the Pine Street
Foundation's research as well as helps evaluate human research subjects'
concerns for other complementary and alternative medicine researchers.
As we continue to work on these and many other projects this spring,this
issue of Avenues is focused on research trials and results that
we found intriguing and wanted to share with you. These include new
clinical trials that are currently recruiting patients and new
research abstracts.
This issue of Avenues also includes the next article in our Becoming
Your Own Advocate series, "How
to Communicate with your Doctor." Here we explore the recent
literature on the subject, show why improving doctor-patient communications
is important, and offer specific strategies and sample questions that
you can use in your next medical consultation.
Also in this Avenues is an article about the upcoming Sixth
Annual Chinese Medical Health Screening that will take place on
Saturday, April 17th, at the Marin Civic Center Exhibit Hall in San
Rafael, California. We are honored that the Marin County Department
of Health and Human Services will be co-sponsoring this public service
event.
Lastly, a sincere thank you to Jason Chen, our former Executive Director,
who helped us re-envision our organization and refine our vision and
direction. Jason will now be serving as our liaison to Taiwan where he
will be developing relationships with various hospitals and institutions
there that will form the basis for future research collaborations; we
look forward to broadening the Pine Street Foundation's presence in Asia
with Jason's help.
We hope you'll continue to follow our progress and support our
teams efforts throughout the coming year.
Best wishes,
Michael Broffman, LAc
Michael McCulloch, LAc, MPH
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