ASCO: You’re listening to a podcast from Cancer.Net. This cancer information website is produced by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, known as ASCO, the world’s leading professional organization for doctors who care for people with cancer. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Cancer research discussed in this podcast is ongoing, so the data described here may change as research progresses. ASCO President Dr. Monica Bertagnolli has chosen “Caring for every patient. Learning from every patient,” as her presidential theme. Putting actions to words, from 2018 to 2019, she is hosting a series of ASCO Presidential Community Town Halls with local groups across the United States to hear from patients, providers, and the general public about real-world barriers to quality cancer care and to talk about ways to provide the best care to every person diagnosed with cancer. In today’s podcast, Dr. Colin Weekes and the Reverend Joel Guillemette discuss the recent town hall event they hosted at the Sudbury United Methodist Church in Sudbury, Massachusetts on September 10. They discuss the most important issues in cancer care faced by members of this community, and ways that these kind of community events can support people with cancer and address these issues. Dr. Weekes is director of Medical Oncology Research for Pancreatic Cancer at Massachusetts General Hospital. Pastor Joel is the Senior Pastor at the Sudbury United Methodist Church. ASCO would like to thank Dr. Weekes and Pastor Joel for discussing this topic. Dr. Weekes: Hi, Pastor Joel. I am Colin Weekes, one of the medical oncologists at Mass General Hospital and a member of ASCO. Would you take this moment to introduce yourself, sir? Pastor Joel Guillemette: I'm Joel Guillemette. I'm the United Methodist pastor in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Dr. Weekes: And I'd like to thank you for agreeing to participate in this podcast and really thank you for allowing us, ASCO, to come to your church and do what we've called the Cancer 101 Town Hall meeting at your church. And I was wondering if you could just take a little bit of time to talk about what you thought the impact of that event was, and why you thought that was important for us to come and talk to your parishioners? Pastor Joel Guillemette: Well, the way I remember how the meeting began, Colin, you had a session in Dorchester, Massachusetts, with the Greenwood Memorial UMC, our sister church. And they were very excited about what happened in their conversation with you and recommended to us that we do something like that here in Sudbury, which is what? 20, 25 miles away. So our Health Ministries team had worked on an invitation to you and to the community. We were gratified by the number of people who came from our own congregation. We didn't see anybody that we would have identified as somebody from the wider community, but it was a good opportunity to talk, I think, about what the expectations of a group of people in an affluent suburb of Boston might be thinking when they hear a cancer diagnosis and begin to process all of that with you, and Dr. Bertagnolli who was also quite helpful in terms of representing some of the dos and don'ts of oncological practice here in the Boston area. Dr. Weekes: From our perspective, I thought it was really exciting to be able to engage the community and start to talk about cancer from the perspective of the patient, which is something that I don't often get to do, given that most of the time my interaction with patients is in a clinic space. We're talking about sort of treatment and how do we proceed with the issue at hand. So for me, it w