D. Ross Camidge

3 Dec 2024

Every year since 2018 we have gathered 5 or more year survivors of lung cancer together at CU to show others that hope has a face. This is the May 11th 2024 gathering. Rock on!

Feels good to have participated in democracy

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ALK Positive is honored to contribute $50,000 to the Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, Thoracic Oncology Endowed Program Support Fund in honor of Dr. Ross Camidge. With deep gratitude for Dr. Camidge’s lasting impact, we’re proud to support the future of thoracic oncology. 🔗 alkpositive.org/blog/alk-pos...

A wonderful day yesterday in rainy Ottawa for the THORACS meeting (thoracic rare cancers symposium) - so nice to be well enough to be productive and present - 💝

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Bunn award made it here all the way from Seoul, South Korea! Lovely

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"I don't fucking think so"

uchealth.orgWorld-renowned lung cancer expert faces the disease he has spent decades treatingAfter diagnosing and treating lung cancer for decades, he now faces advanced non-smoking lung cancer, deepening his empathy for patients.

18 Sept

It is hard to imagine that my story gets any more interesting through repetition but our hospital system released their updated version of it this week. Enjoy www.uchealth.org/today/renown...

14 Sept

Luda Bazhenova from UCSan Diego

13 Sept

Heather Wakelee from Stanford

Urs Weber from Colorado

Janet Freeman-Daily Cofounder of the ROS1ders patient advocacy group

Karen Reckamp from Cedar Sinai

And another - Chad Rusthoven - radiation oncologist and ‘me’

11 Sept

Even though I’m not at the world conference on lung cancer in Seoul that’s just starting I have friends who send me selfies from it. I was awarded the top honor this year - The Paul A Bunn Scientific Award so I love the selfies from Steve Liu and Tina Cascone ‘with’ me 😂

podcasts.apple.comHow Compassion and Research Build Palliative Care for the Precision Oncology EraPodcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · September 9 · 48m

9 Sept

Me and Petrillo. Although I had some downtime in July and August, I recorded this new episode when i was on the mend again. Dr Petrillo embodies passion in her chosen career… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

9 Sept

… who better than a palliative care doctor to also coincidentally help me to feel normal again.

4 Sept

Today, for the first time in 6 weeks I walked half a mile to the shops. There was some heavy breathing involved but I made it nonetheless. A little better every day…

28 Aug

After all of August’s stresses it was lovely to be virtually normal and give the PHI prize lecture at UTSW in Dallas today. I thank my gracious hosts for letting me meet them where I was at.

23 Aug

Slowly recovering weight and stamina. But recovering

16 Aug

Got home after a week as inpatient. Breathing and cough much improved. Appetite- which turned off like a switch a month ago is coming back like a rheostat. For once in a long while I feel I’m recovering

10 Aug

On the left is an empanada. A savory Argentinian pastry. In the middle and on the right is an empyema. A serious infection in the pleural space (you can see the pus in the tube coming from that area). I have only the latter.

Am on the right iv antibiotics but still having wild fevers. The plan is to treat til fevers stop.

Then this week I walked off a cliff. Cough, anorexia, gag vomit all there as before but Thursday August 6th I was somehow much worse. That evening fevers hit

If the straw in my water bottle was my pleural catheter, and the outside of the bottle is my right chest wall, and somewhere under the water is my lung. Somehow the straw and water got infected.

July 28-30 we added chemo back to the mix. In December the team had grown organoids ‘mini tumors’ from my sample and etoposide scored highly as active chemo. It’s not an awful drug - but it’s 3 consecutive days and you lose your hair. So that was last week

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It has been an interesting few weeks. July 15 i had a right kidney stent, right pleurodesis and right pleural catheter inserted to drain fluid and keep that lung expanded. The day after the surgery my appetite disappeared. vimeo.com/1215550213/f...

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Still managed to get to DC and add some value and humor to the ALK summit. But when I was done and I realized I was worried about walking though airport and three hour flight back I began to think virtual not in person is going to be my future for a while

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17 July

$100,000 will be matched through World Lung Cancer Day (8/1)! Consider making a gift today to the Ross Camidge (@drcamidge.bsky.social), MD, PhD, Thoracic Oncology Endowed Program Support Fund: https://bit.ly/4wLhXFe

podcasts.apple.comDying to Tell YouMental Health Podcast · Updated Weekly · We are all born with an expiration date. Palliative Care Chaplain Cody Hufstedler sits down with people who are living with serious illness for intimate, one-o...

17 July

I recorded this back in November 2025. Me and cody - a hospice chaplain - went live yesterday. Death with clarity and humor - just the way I like things 🤓 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

podcasts.apple.comHow Surgical Determination Intersects With Human Connection: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Robert A Meguid, MD, MPH, FACSPodcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · April 29 · 1h 7m

15 July

The ‘Rob’ referred to is rob meguid. Podcasted with me earlier this year 🤓https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-this-is-building-me/id1726421043?i=1000764389098

15 July

It was a wild week. I knew I had the pleural effusion building up but on Friday I developed this right flank pain. I controlled it with simple analgesics but by Sunday it was making me vomit. Short story- I had right ureteric compression. My right kidney was swelling like tom and Jerry’s hosepipe

15 July

I think constriction was secondary to L4 and sacral bone met consolidation xrt in ‘22. Fixed with stent under same anaesthetic as Robs pleurodesis and pleurX . Doing well now just lung re-expansion work

14 July

Swinging, Baby! Way better after fluid drained

podcasts.apple.comHow a Passion for Translational Research Fuses Surgery, Science, and Phase 1 Drug Development: With D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD; and Funda Meric-Bernstam, MDPodcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · July 8 · 39m

8 July

Recently live: Me and FMB. Some people can just do it all. Funda is amazing at so many things, yet she leads her team excited at each members individual successes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

8 July

Surgeon, scientist, drug developer, program leader - she’s got it all

7 July

The difference between the left and right is 10 days and 1.7 liters drained from my right lung. They don’t look different (my right is on the left as you look) because the fluid built up again quickly. I’m fine at rest but changing position makes me cough. Plan is a more permanent drain due soon.

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3 July

The best explanation of these observations is that a new deposit, potentially of any cancer in the brain, requires resistance to whatever systemic therapy is ongoing AND NTRK-BDNF interactions. Block either and no new brain mets thttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1556086426001802

podcasts.apple.comHow This Is Building MeScience Podcast · Updated Monthly · World-renowned oncologist D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhD, sits down with guests to discuss the highs and lows, ups and downs of all those involved with cancer, cancer med...

28 June

HTIBM recently live: Me and Disis. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

28 June

Sometimes I have to coax the learning from my guests. Encourage them to reveal what others can gain from their experiences. For Nora I just sat back and let her do her thing. Magnificent 😊

onclive.comEvolving Treatment Strategies in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Peer Exchange | OncLiveEvolving Treatment Strategies in Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer | Peer Exchange | OncLive serves as the connection to oncology, including groundbreaking cancer news and interviews with top oncol...

27 June

Part of the day to day job of being an expert is to facilitate medical education. This fun group made it easy for me to moderate. Like having all the smartest students in the same class www.onclive.com/peer-exchang...

22 June

To mark Father’s Day I learned how to make jewelry and today gave each of my daughters a sterling silver ring I’d made for them. Then we had dinner and watched Toy Story 5 at the movies. Simple pleasures, shared time.

lungevity.orgPodcast: What are Biomarkers and Why Should You Get Tested? | LUNGevity FoundationWhat are biomarkers, why do they matter, and what should every person living with lung cancer know about getting tested? Dr. Ross Camidge, a world-renowned thoracic oncologist and lung cancer research...

18 June

Beyond the biomarker facts, this podcast let me share the value of vulnerability after my diagnosis www.lungevity.org/blogs/podcas...

12 June

For some reason this made my day 😂

podcasts.apple.comHow Curiosity and Empathy Build a Life of Meaningful Accomplishments and Deep Connections: With Erin Schenk, MD, PhD; and D. Ross Camidge, MD, PhDPodcast Episode · How This Is Building Me · June 10 · 1h 6m

10 June

Recently live on HTIBM - Schenk and Me podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

10 June

After multiple requests from various people I let myself be a guest on my own podcast with Dr Erin Schenk as guest host. She dug deeper and in different directions than others

soundcloud.comEp.8: Cannabis and Lung CancerIn a special episode to commemorate the anniversary of the legalization of recreational cannabis, Dr. Paul Wheatley-Price talks to Dr. Ross Camidge, Director of Thoracic Oncology at the University of

The recent podcast with Paul Wheatley-Price made me go back to our pod on lung cancer and cannabis. on.soundcloud.com/fcHAs9Vuuq2U...

As we exchanged how, as physicians, we had to be honest about our own experiences with marijuana, to destigmatize talking about it with patients we joked about not having tried chemotherapy either. At least for me that would change in the next three years

The very talented Lisa Goldman sent me this watercolor earlier this year. She chose a poppy as they grow in disturbed ground and are beautiful. The sentiment is true for all of us, a diagnosis of cancer might emphasize this but it doesn’t own this thought

It just means our eyes are open