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Oct 2, 2026

Ursula MannHOST
24:26
But of course, it's putting in the time and having the resources at the organization as well, and making sure you have the capacity to figure out how you're gonna capture that and report on that.
Ursula MannHOST
24:35
Gail got a shout-out for the number of submissions that was done to Canada Drug Agency in a report that was done by our friends.
Ursula MannHOST
24:43
So by a report that was done by ZBricks.
Ursula MannHOST
24:46
So that article had come out, and I read it, and it was a nice overview as to which groups had done submissions and some quantification of it as well.

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Gail AttaraGUEST
33:53
This is where I was going back to, is they're also in human resources offices.
Gail AttaraGUEST
33:58
So we ship those pamphlets to human resources offices so that they can provide them for their employees as they might need them.
Ursula MannHOST
34:06
So Gail, speaking behind the scenes, we talked earlier about how many submissions your organization has done on behalf of patient voice to Canada Drug Agency, and thinking about all the amazing work that I've seen over the years from patient organizations, I'm curious what your thoughts are.
Ursula MannHOST
34:25
What do you wish the general public knew a little bit more about the value and the great work that patient organizations bring forward?
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:32
And that's why adverse events management is so important.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:36
Now, these are the CDA guidelines, the Canadian Drug Agency.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:40
You know, again, I think all of us believe that in the first-line setting, an ELK TKI should be used.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:45
Crizotinib was the first TKI made onto the scene, but I don't think anyone would use it in the first-line setting today.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:32
And that's why adverse events management is so important.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:36
Now, these are the CDA guidelines, the Canadian Drug Agency.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:40
You know, again, I think all of us believe that in the first-line setting, an ELK TKI should be used.
Barbara MeloskyGUEST
1:45
Crizotinib was the first TKI made onto the scene, but I don't think anyone would use it in the first-line setting today.
Kathy BarnardGUEST
23:59
When we first got that immuno-oncology, went through the health approval process, we get to go out and be part of that process.
Kathy BarnardGUEST
24:07
And it talks to melanoma because the first submission we got to do to the Canadian Drug Agency, we did a survey out to the patients that we had helped, because we'd already started helping patients, but we had lost every single patient that we had tried to help.
Kathy BarnardGUEST
24:24
In those first years of Save Your Skin, we only really had Edmonton, Alberta treating.
Kathy BarnardGUEST
24:30
So every patient that came to us, we were sending over to the cross to try to get them on either one or two of those treatments.

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