PMP PALS AT SSO ADVANCED CANCER THERAPIES 2025
Each year, PMP Pals sponsors the Society of Surgical Oncology/Advance Cancer Therapies conference (SSO/ACT) where specialists worldwide meet to discuss what’s new in peritoneal surface malignancies and related conditions. Find links to the SSO/ACT 2025 powerpoint...
Tips for Returning to Work After Appendix Cancer Surgery, CRS & HIPEC
Our Pal Elizabeth has recuperated from CRS with HIPEC and is returning to her job soon. At a recent HOPE Zoom meeting, she asked her fellow Pals for helpful suggestions for returning to the office. Collectively, Pals offered the following suggestions: Talk with Your...
Your Pals on CRS & HIPEC: Tips for the Hospital
On a recent HOPE Zoom call, Pals around the world shared how they wrapped their heads around heading into CRS & HIPEC. This starter list is part of a Pals Tips Series: what to do before surgery, surgery prep, in hospital, going home, and long-term recovery. We...
16 Things I Wish My Doctor Told Me About CRS/HIPEC Surgery
When treating us for appendix cancer, most doctors prepare us well for the surgery ahead, explaining copious paperwork, requisite hospital stays, recovery expectations, and HIPEC technicalities. They get us through tests, scans, consults, and discussions that...
National Triva Day: Test Your PMP Pals Know-How
In honor of National Trivia Day (January 4), we pulled together trivia on our founder Gabriella Graham, her legacy PMP Pals, and the rare disease that started it all, appendix cancer and pseudomyxoma peritonei. Test your knowledge with the 30 questions below and let...
RESOURCE ROUNDUP: YEAR-END 2024
Resource Roundup: Year-end 2024 A Caregiver's Research: Appendix Cancer & Pseudomyxoma-Peritonei-PMP CRS-HIPEC compiled by Julian S. (click here) Canadian Pal Julian S. is a care partner with his wife, Maggie. As part of their experience navigating appendix cancer...
RESOURCE ROUNDUP: WINTER 2024
PMP Pals Resource Roundup: Winter 2024 This quarter, we found Purposeful Reading with a newsletter from PSOGI chairman and CRS/HIPEC pioneer Dr. Paul Sugarbaker, a handful of articles. PSOGI World News (1) Section 1: Progress in Clinical or Laboratory Research: A...
Resource Roundup: Late Summer 2024
PMP Pals Resource Roundup: Late Summer 2024 We're always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be...
Media Kit: One in a Million 5K Run/Walk
Media Kit: One in a Million 5K Run/Walk Benefitting PMP Pals Network RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2024 EVENT DATE: September 14, 2024 5K RACE CONTACT: Sheri Doss, San Antonio appendix cancer survivor, sheridoss@pmppals.net 210-262-2538 PMP PALS CONTACT: Charmaine...
One in a Million 5K Run/Walk Benefits Global Rare Cancer Peer Community
Appendix cancer survivor and local San Antonian Sheri Doss spearheads local event to highlight health, wellness, appendix cancer, and a birthday she was not destined to see RELEASE DATE: August 6, 2024 EVENT DATE: September 14, 2024 5K RACE CONTACT: Sheri Doss, San...
Meet Up’24: Cool Things to Check Out in Scottsdale, AZ
Meet Up'24: Cool Things to Check Out in Scottsdale, AZ In our search for cool things to do in Scottsdale, we're fast realizing we need more time in The Grand Canyon State. In our idea grab from Top 10 Things to Do in Scottsdale, 25 Best Things to Do in Scottsdale. and...
Your Pals on HOPE Zoom: Hair Loss, Death Cafes, Multiorgan Transplant
Your Pals on HOPE Zoom: Hair Loss, Death Cafes, Multiorgan Transplant You never know what you are going to hear about on HOPE Zoom (register here)...last week, we shared our common experience and sought-after information on: Hair loss resulting from Lonsurf Hats vs...
Your Pals on HOPE Zoom: Feel the FEELS, Control, SSDI
Your Pals on HOPE Zoom: Feel the FEELS, Control, SSDI Twice a week, we gather online to talk about appendix cancer. Open to patients, care partners, and support people, HOPE Zoom allows us to ask questions, share our vulnerabilities, and draw on the strength of others...
Pals Living Life: Patient Advocate Lindsay B. Talks Fertility on SurgOncToday Podcast
Pals Living Life: Patient Advocate Lindsay B. Talks Fertility on SurgOncToday Podcast Hope Renewed: A Young Woman's Journey after CRS/HIPEC Pal Lindsay B. talked with three appendix cancer specialists on the Society of Surgical Oncology's podcast, SurgOncToday....
Meet Up’24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties
Meet Up'24: Scottsdale Necessities & Niceties Travel can be a bit prickly. Thanks to your input, we've gathered up a few details to help you enjoy your time in Scottsdale. Spend more time relaxing and getting to know your Pals, and less time searching for whatever...
Appendix Cancer on Radar: Making a Difference, Working Together
Appendix Cancer on Radar: Making a Difference, Working Together Amber is the official color of Appendix Cancer Awareness. It symbolizes the courage, strength, and resilience of appendix cancer patients, care partners, and their families. Working together, we aim to...
Pals Living Life: Raising Awareness of Appendix Cancer
Each year, the Mike Weber Sr. Memorial Foundation holds its annual fundraiser at White Beeches Golf & Country Club in Haworth, NJ. Family members honor the legacy of Mike Sr., an appendix cancer survivor whose legendary impact on his local community lives on in...
Create a 5K Race Day Team & Team Fundraiser Page
Teams are fun! Create a 5K Race Day Team & Team Fundraiser Page Welcome to the One In a Million 5K Run/Walk. It's way more fun to do with friends, family, and coworkers - let's make it a TEAM EFFORT! To be clear, you can run the race without fundraising and you...
Resource Roundup: Summer 2024
We're always scanning medical journals, practitioner magazines, cancer-focused blogs, and our partner websites for resources about this rare disease. Depending on where you are on your appendix cancer journey, you may be searching for information about current...
Setting Our Minds Straight
We don’t necessarily need a designated month to remind us how important emotional resilience is to our quality of life. Keeping a clear mental perspective affects our overall wellness, as well as our relationships with family and friends. But, it can be hard to...
Who’s Manju?
Each year, SSO/ACT extends the Gabriella Graham Patient Advocacy Award “to an individual or patient advocacy organization that has provided support and hope to patients and families facing cancers that are often treated with a regional treatment approach.” Pals...
Why We Go to SSO
Pals President Adele Jasion and Secretary-Treasurer Charmain Skillman attended the Society of Surgical Oncology’s Advanced Cancer Therapies (SSO/ACT) symposium in February 2024. Charmaine shares her perspective here. PMP Pals recently attended the meeting of the...
PALS ONLINE: Paul in Perth
Several Pals are very public with their illness, choosing to share their wellness journey online via YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Caring Bridge. All share the hope of helping a fellow appendix cancer survivor navigate the surprises of this diagnosis, along with...
PALS ONLINE: Jamie V.
Many of you may recognize Jamie V. as one of the “Pals Angels,” a HOPE Zoom moderator on Wednesday at 6pET/3pPT. She does a lot of volunteering for our group like mentoring other patients 1-on-1, assisting with graphic design (she helped with the 5K logo),...
John R., Caregiver Companion
John Razzano quickly slid into role of family caregiver when his wife, Mary, was diagnosed with our rare cancer in 2014. That meant playing head nurse, chief paperwork officer, cheerleader, and patient advocate. “During that time, I felt alone and isolated trying to...
Your Pals on Nausea
Anti-Nausea Suggestions from Your Pals The Technicolor Yawn, Praying to the Porcelain Goddess, Yodeling Groceries - call it what you want - Nausea and its close cousin, Vomit, are relentless foes when given space to flourish. Sometimes, we experience nausea during...
Stage 4 is Not My Finish Line
Stage 4 is Not My Finish Line The Milestone This year, on December 18, 2023, I will be celebrating my 20th wedding anniversary. I will also be marking the anniversary of my first cancer surgery on the same day, in 2019. It was just before Christmas, parts of the...
Hope Wrapped Up: Barad’s Blankets
In March 2022, when Lindsay Barad packed for her CRS/HIPEC hospital stay, she thought she over-packed. The one item that she didn’t bring along was a blanket and her first night in the hospital was freezing! The next morning, her father, Jim, stopped at a local...
Send in Your Gut-Sensitive Recipes
We all know that feeling - the Dreaded Belly Bomber - following an all-too-good-tasty meal. It's bittersweet and frustrating. But what are we to do about a sensitive gut, the by-product of a transitioning gastro system post-surgery? Some of us get a team...
Caregivers Guide Us Back to Life
Words cannot express the gratitude we have for our caregivers. Spouses, partners, siblings, parents, children, and friends step in to help us through challenging times laden with heavy physical demands and psyche-wrenching emotional waves. By their simple acts of...