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Dietary Research in Blood Cancers: Exploring the Impact of a Plant-Based Diet

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Dietary Research in Blood Cancers: Exploring the Impact of a Plant-Based Diet

event Aug 29, 2024 / 02:00PM - 03:00PM EDT
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Event Description

Can a plant based diet affect your overall health? Can it affect your blood cancer progression or time to relapse? What does the science say about it, and what questions still need to be answered? Dr. Urvi Shah, Francesca Castro, MS, RDN, CDN, and Jenny Ahlstrom, HealthTree Founder and CEO will join us to discuss these topics and the Nutrivention studies that aim to answer these questions and more. Come ready to learn from the experts and hear about how you can become a cure contributor.

HealthTree is working with Dr. Urvi Shah's team at MSK in "Nutrivention-2", a national, multi-arm, randomized prospective telehealth study. This study will explore the microbial changes in response to a plant-based diet and supplements in smoldering myeloma patients. You can learn more about it HERE. If you're interested and want more information, please contact our support team - support@healthtree.org.

Event Highlights

Dr. Urvi Shah shares her own experience with nutrition, med school, and a Hodgkin Lymphoma diagnosis.

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USDA recommended balanced diet:

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Impact of Dietary Patterns on Cancer Risk:

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Role of the Gut Microbiome in Cancer:

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Nutrivention Trials:

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Dr. Shah goes over a few goals, based on the evidence presented during this webinar, to improve your overall health.

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Questions & Answers

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Schedule & Agenda

The panelist Cynthia Cahoon
Introductions
2:00 PM
Cynthia Cahoon

Cynthia introduces the agenda of the event and featured speakers Dr. Urvi Shah, Francesca Castro and Jenny Ahlstrom

The panelist Urvi Shah, MD
Presentation
2:05 PM
Urvi Shah, MD

 Dr. Shah speaks about her experience with nutrition as a blood cancer patient

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Presentation
2:20 PM
Dr. Shah and Francesca Castro

Dr. Shah & Francesca share about the Nutrivention study for myeloma patients

The panelist Jenny Ahlstrom
Presentation
2:35 PM
Jenny Ahlstrom

Jenny talks about HealthTree’s Research: Advancing Cures

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Questions and Answers
2:45 PM
Audience

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Speakers & Moderators

The panelist Cynthia Cahoon
Cynthia Cahoon

Cynthia is a newborn ICU nurse by trade that has spent the last six years in the medical device industry educating nurses and doctors about devices that are new to their facility. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, traveling the world with her family, and creating Halloween animatronics for her annual front yard display. She has a passion for life-long learning and enjoys sharing what she learns with the people around her.

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The panelist Urvi Shah, MD
Urvi Shah, MD

Dr. Urvi Shah is a faculty on the myeloma service, division of hematologic malignancies at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Her research focuses on studying the role of diet, microbiome, and other lifestyle-related risk factors in plasma cell disorders as well as identifying interventions to improve outcomes for these patients. She also studies immune therapies (including CAR T cell therapies) for myeloma. Being a lymphoma survivor herself she is passionate about helping patients make wise nutritional and lifestyle choices as they face a plasma cell disorder diagnosis as well as raising awareness about healthy choices to prevent cancer.

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The panelist Jenny Ahlstrom
Jenny Ahlstrom
Lehi, UT

Myeloma survivor, patient advocate, wife, mom of 6. Believer that patients can help accelerate a cure by weighing in and participating in clinical research. Founder of the HealthTree Foundation.

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The panelist Francesca Castro, MS, RD, CDN
Francesca Castro, MS, RD, CDN
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

As a level III clinical research dietitian-nutritionist, she focuses on providing whole food, plant-based diet interventions to patients within the Myeloma Service. She joined Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in December 2021. Her special interests include the impact of dietary choices on both cancer prevention and progression, gastrointestinal microbiome, and evidence-based clinical care. She earned her master’s in nutrition and exercise physiology at Teachers College, Columbia University, and her bachelor’s in biomedical science at the University of Central Florida. She is a registered dietitian-nutritionist with the CDR and a registered dietitian in New York state.

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