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What does it mean to have adenocarcinoma or sarcoma? What is a PET scan, a PET-CT scan, an MRI, and an SPECT scan? What is the difference between complete and partial remission, cure vs remission? What do the terms disease-free survival and overall survival mean?

Learn about new cancer treatments such as targeted therapy, immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy, and gene therapy. What are the types of clinical trials, and who should participate and why? and much more.

This discussion will be led by Khalid Rehman.

Khalid Rehman, Dr. Khalid Rehman is a board-certified hematologist-oncologist who retired some years ago after 34 years of clinical and academic practice of medicine. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. His professional career spans the whole spectrum, including private practice, as a staff oncologist, a teacher, the director of the hematology-oncology fellowship training program, and the medical director of Richmond Hospice. He is a member of the faculty of New York Medical College as an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He has also served as president of the Richmond County Medical Society and President of the Academy of Medicine of Richmond in the eighties and nineties.
Over the years, he has also served on the boards of the American Cancer Society, the Visiting Nurse Service, the Muslim Majlis, the Pakistan Cultural Association, and the Project Hospitality in Staten Island, and a member of the board of the National Autism Association NY Metro Chapter in New York City.

Now retired, he devotes his time to teaching, freelance medical review work, and interfaith advocacy. Dr. Rehman is married to Sabeeha, and they live in Manhattan. They have two sons and four grandchildren. 

Please join us for this virtual discussion!  Register below, and the Zoom link will be sent to you.

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