CCA Medical Minute

Jillian Hunt and Steve Abbott welcome Kroger Health's Regional Clinical Leader, Amber Starkey, to discuss how The Little Clinic has evolved and become more convenient to patients over the years.

Steve Abbott returns alongside Sherry Hughes for a breast cancer episode featuring "Off Our Chests" Author, Liza Marshall, and husband, Dr. John Marshall. Tune in as we break down complex terminology that is continuously used in the breast cancer world.

After a renovation to our podcast studio and completing our inaugural Wine Women and Shoes Naples event, we are back in action with the Medical Minute! Tune in as we welcome Kroger Health's Territory Clinical Leader, Connie Palakodeti, to discuss screenings at The Little Clinic.

Sherry, Jill, and Andy pop in one last time before the new year to provide a PSA to all cancer patients this holiday season.

Sherry and Jill welcome Kroger Health's Emily Rider, RDN, to discuss Kroger's OptUp - a simple way for customers to select more nourishing foods while grocery shopping.

Steve Abbott returns in Episode 82 with Dr. Andrew Gillihan, Owner and Performance Physical Therapist at Alinea Performance Cincinnati, to discuss urinary incontinence and how men with prostate cancer can avoid this side effect.

Steve Abbott and Sherry Hughes return in this very special episode as Dr. Marc Watkins, Chief Medical Officer of Kroger Health, joins us to discuss nutrition among lower income communities, affordability of healthy foods, and wellness programs provided by Kroger Health.

Sherry and Jill are back in Episode 80 with Kroger Health's very own Dr. Olivia Kinney to discuss vaccines! Tune in as we dive in to the updated COVID vaccine, the Flu vaccine, and other potential vaccines on the horizon.

Andy Guinigundo hops in the driver's seat this week alongside CCA's Dr. Abdul Jazieh and Washington University's Dr. Ramaswamy Govindan to discuss the latest update in precision oncology that came out of ASCO 2023.

Steve Abbott returns this week alongside Dr. Bill Barrett and WLWT's Courtis Fuller for a very special episode! Tune in as Courtis talks about his cancer journey and how he found CCA to be so helpful.

CCA's subseries, ASCO Direct™: A Patient Perspective, continues this week with MD Anderson's Dr. Christopher Logothetis. Tune in to learn about PARP Inhibitors and how the latest studies have become so consequential.

ASCO Direct™: A Patient Perspective continues this week as Sherry Hughes and Jillian Hunt, CNP, welcome Dr. Tom Herzog, deputy director of the University of Cincinnati Cancer Institute and professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UC College of Medicine to discuss the Mirasol and Destiny Pan Tumor 002 trials, two of the most interesting studies presented at ASCO 2023.

CCA's Jillian Hunt and Dr. Philip Leming welcome Vanderbilt University's Dr. Douglas Johnson to the Medical Minute to discuss the hottest topics in melanoma from ASCO 2023.

CCA's Sherry Hughes and Andy Guinigundo welcome Dr. Stephanie Graff to discuss the NATALEE Trial - one of the hottest topics discussed for Breast Cancer at ASCO 2023.

CCA's Steve Abbott and Dr. Abdul Jazieh welcome Dr. Alex Adjei to discuss the overall survival analysis from the ADAURA trial of adjuvant osimertinib in patients with resected EGFR-mutated (EGFRm) stage IB-IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Alex A. Adjei, MD; PhD is Chairman of the Taussig Cancer Institute and the M. Frank Rudy and Margaret D. Rudy Distinguished Chair in Translational Cancer Research at Cleveland Clinic. As Chairman, he is responsible for all clinical, financial, academic, operational, professional and strategic issues pertaining to cancer medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Adjei oversees a staff of over 170 physicians and 40 Advanced Practice Providers, both at the main campus and at 18 regional centers.

We have been busy in the Medical Minute studio lately and are thrilled to bring you another episode!

Jill, Andy, and Dr. Jazieh return for a follow-up discussion on the basics of Lung Cancer.

Sherry welcomes survivor Shawn Brown on the Medical Minute to share his journey of battling both testicular cancer and Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Tune in to hear Shawn’s story and advice for others going through their battle.

Jill hops in the driver's seat this week alongside Andy and Dr. Jazieh to bring you the basics of Lung Cancer. Stay tuned for Episode 69, "Lung Cancer 102," where they continue the discussion.

Steve and Sherry are back in Episode 66 with Sarcoma Survivor, Ebony Young, who has far exceeded her cancer expectations!

Tune in to hear her miraculous story.

This week, Sherry is joined by Dr. David Oh, Chief Medical Director at Hoxworth Blood Center, to discuss blood donations and how they can impact cancer patients.

Tune in to learn how you can help!

Julie Isphording, a retired long-distance marathon runner from Cincinnati, joins Steve Abbott and Sherry Hughes as we discuss her journey and how it relates to cancer.

This week, Steve and Sherry discuss the POSITIVE Clinical Trial with lead study author Ann Partridge, MD, MPH, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Vice Chair of Medical Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

More information: https://ascopost.com/news/december-2022/patients-with-breast-cancer-who-interrupted-endocrine-therapy-to-pursue-pregnancy-did-not-experience-worse-short-term-recurrence-rates/

Sherry sits down with UC Med Student, Ellie Farley, to discuss the future of medicine!

As Steve prepares for a trip to MD Anderson, Andy and Jill provide some context behind a blood clot that he developed in his leg.

Welcome back to the Medical Minute! We look forward to sharing more episodes to enable better treatment choices and improve the overall health of many lives this year.

Sherry and Andy are joined this week by Sharon Noll from ReVital Cancer Rehabilitation. Tune in to learn about the different ways that you can fight off the side effects that come from various cancer treatments.

Join Steve this week to learn about the future of the Medical Minute.

We are a little extra thankful this Thanksgiving as Steve returns from Houston with some uplifting news regarding his cancer journey. Tune in to learn the latest!

While Steve Abbott is in Houston visiting MD Anderson, Sherry Hughes hops in the driver's seat alongside Andy Guinigundo to bring you this exclusive look into former Cincinnati Bengals running backs coach Jim Anderson's battle with Prostate Cancer.

Phar-ma-co-gen-o-mics. You don't need to know how to say it, but you need to know what it is! Tag along with Steve and Andy this week as we welcome Dr. Burns Blaxall to teach us about this fascinating new healthcare option.

Steve and Andy return with the Medical Director of CCA, Dr. Philip Leming, to discuss CAR-T Cell Therapy. Tune in to learn how this treatment works, the average turnaround time, and what the similar treatments are!

We celebrated Breast Cancer Awareness Month by breaking down various related topics and survivor stories throughout recent episodes. To conclude our celebration, Steve, Jill, and Andy bring the Cincinnati Cancer Consortium to the forefront and spotlight the different resources you can utilize if you or a loved one have a breast cancer diagnosis.

Paula Maier is a fighter! Tune in this week to learn how this breast cancer patient became a breast cancer survivor.

In our second Breast Cancer Awareness Month episode, Steve Abbott sits down with two exceptional Certified Nurse Practitioners, Jillian Hunt and Andrew Guinigundo. Tune in to learn about what goes into diagnosing Breast Cancer! 

It is officially Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so we thought we would kick things off by bringing you another survivor story! Sherry traveled *all the way* from the other side of our office to join Steve and Jill for this special episode.

In light of our 50th episode, and DEFINITELY not due to any technical difficulties, we are coming to you live on this beautiful Wednesday morning! Join us as we reflect on our mighty little podcast before Steve wraps up with his cancer journey update.

Steve and Sherry get a head-start on Breast Cancer Awareness Month by bringing in Jenell Ross from the Norma J. Ross Foundation! Join us to learn how Jenell and her team are fighting to decrease the number of lives lost due to breast cancer.

Steve Abbott is joined this week by Tracy Cesaretti, Vice President of ZERO Prostate Cancer. Tune in to learn how ZERO is helping prostate cancer patients battle against their never-ending medical bills!

Sherry Hughes and Andy Guinigundo are joined this week by Shelley Hastings-Toms, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2015. Tune in to learn how Shelley was able to navigate through an extremely tough battle with the disease.

Steve and Sherry are happy to welcome Kroger Health's Jane Dierkers to discuss their upcoming Kroger Wellness Festival!

As scheduling conflicts arise, Steve calls an audible from our original episode topic to bring you this very unique "surprise" episode!

Our host trio reconvenes this week to discuss how our Executive Director, Steve Abbott, has been handling his chemotherapy as he passes the halfway point of treatments.

Sherry and Andy take the reins this week as we welcome Luke Barrett to discuss his newly-formed fitness service, Healthy Hitting! Stay tuned for an upcoming announcement as Luke prepares to launch his official Healthy Hitting website featuring the exercise knowledge you need to fight back for your health.

Receiving a cancer diagnosis can send you into an instant shock. You may not even hear what the doctor is saying! In this week's episode, we walk through a few essential questions you should ask your doctor to learn more about your cancer.

Joined this week by Kroger Health's Director of Pharmacy Operations, Doug Cornelius, Steve and Sherry dive deeper into the ways that Kroger is providing a holistic, "one-stop-shop" for all of your healthcare needs!

For the first time in Medical Minute history, we are joined by TWO doctors on the same episode! Ocular Oncology expert Dr. Basil Williams joins our very own Dr. Philip Leming and Sherry Hughes to discuss one of the rarest forms of cancer you may not know existed.

Jill and Steve flip hosting roles this week as Steve has been deemed the "bubble boy!" Join us in our 39th episode as the duo explains how Steve's cancer journey has treated him so far.

If you wish to continue following Steve’s Cancer Journey, you can check out his blog here: https://www.cincinnaticanceradvisors.org/abbottjourney

Sherry Hughes connects with Rene McPhedran and Andy Kaminsky of Melanoma Know More to provide a full run-down on melanoma prevention. Tune in this week to learn about a new development taking place regarding sunscreen stations at local swimming pools!

Kroger Health's Little Clinic is not limited to taking care of a case of sniffles. Meggen Brown MSN, FNP-BC joins us this week to discuss how you can receive an elite level of care at one of these locations!

Groundbreaking News - 100% of participants in Dr. Luis Diaz's Phase II clinical trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are currently in remission. Tune in this week to learn how the drug, Dostarlimab, vanquished the rectal cancer cells in all 18 participants.

As Steve sits out this week to take care of his health, Jill jumps in the driver's seat to give you all the best tips and tricks to help your body get through these hot summer months. Joined by Sherry Hughes and Andy Guinigundo, the trio also takes some time to recall the numerous topics that have been discussed so far on the Medical Minute.