LRF National Workshop

I like to alert you all to interesting online opportunities for education when I can. And as you probably know, the Lymphoma Research Foundation (LRF) does a great job with this.

The LRF does some in-person workshops, and lots of online workshops, sometimes focusing on local patients. But they do some national stuff too, and their next National Lymphoma Workshop is coming up on Saturday, April 1. 

It looks like a good one. You can look at the agenda at the link above.

Some things that I am especially interested in:

• After a general overview of what lymphoma is, there is a special session on Covid-19. It's still with us, and still affecting many lymphoma patients who are immuno-compromised. It will be interesting to hear about the latest research.
• There will be two sessions on Follicular Lymphoma, one for the newly diagnosed, and one for Relapsed/Refractory patients. There are different issues to consider and different treatments available for these two groups. Nice that they are separating them out.
• There's a session on Survivorship, led by Dr. Gita Thanarajasingam from the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Some of Dr. Thanarajasingam's research has focused on Quality of Life and Patient-Reported Outcomes. She is an excellent person to lead a discussion on Survivorship -- what happens when treatment is finished, but lives have changed in physical and emotional ways.
• Finally, there is a special session on CAR-T and Immunotherapy. It's the only session on a specific treatment, which tells you something about how important CAR-T is for lymphoma. (Though I'm guessing the "Immunotherapy" part will also get into bi-specifics. Just a guess.

As I said, it looks like it will be a very good day, if you want to know more about Lymphoma in general, and FL specifically.

You can find out more, and register for the workshop, at this link.