 We're going to start today with Cary Konoski, where are you, Cary? Up here. Oh, there you are, Cary. Cary is the Vice President of Development and Public Affairs for the Kidney Cancer Association and a non-profit executive scholar at Northwestern. And this is a day that is a partnership between those of us that are speaking and the Kidney Cancer Association, which has been one of the venues for your voice nationally and internationally for patients with kidney cancer. And Cary is going to talk to you a little bit about what the Kidney Cancer Association does. Thanks for coming, Cary. Thank you. So, hi. Good morning. Welcome, everyone. I first just want to start off by thanking Dr. Figlin and Nancy Moldauer for, once again, putting on a wonderful meeting for us and for all of you. And also to thank our sponsors, Pfizer Oncology and Genentech, for helping to support this meeting. Just two quick housekeeping-type things. One, we are able to validate your parking. So sometime before the end of the day, if you want to stop at the registration desk, we can do that for you. And secondly, before I begin, just to let everyone know that all the presentations will be videotaped today and will be available in about six weeks on the Kidney Cancer Association website. So you'll be able to go back and look at any of the talks again. It'll be with the speaker and the slide presentation. So not to get overwhelmed with trying to take notes or remember everything that you'll have an opportunity to view those again online. So just to get started today, I'm Cary Konoski with the Kidney Cancer Association. I've been working there for about seven and a half years now. I got involved in the summer of 2004 when a good friend of mine at Penn State University's father was diagnosed. He played football there and he was struggling with at that time having the doctor tell him, well, there's really nothing we can do for you. They did the surgery. There's really no treatments. I'm sorry. Enjoy the time you have left with your family. And that was kind of it. And to my friend, he thought, well, that's not acceptable to me. What can I do about this? I'm at this big university. Let me see if I can get my friends to help. So we started a fundraising event with a football team there. And in the first year, they raised about $15,000 in a couple of months. Last year, this event that has continued had their 10-year anniversary raised over 100,000. So to me, that was kind of just my way of getting in and meeting my friend Scott's parents. And I think for all of us, that was really hard to hear that there wasn't anything being done for this rare cancer. It's amazing to me that since that time, unfortunately, his father did pass away but to sit in this room and to hear Dr. Figlin ask how many people have been diagnosed 10, 15 years, I think that that was something we hoped to be possible. And it's amazing for me to be here and see so many of you in this room. So that's just a little bit about me and how I got involved. So for those of you that aren't familiar, the Kidney Cancer Association is an international not-for-profit organization that is comprised of patients, their families, friends, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. Our mission, because you can read up there, is really to end the pain and suffering caused by this disease. And we are focused in three areas. Education, and that encompasses both physician education and patient education, such as what we have here today. Supportive research, and then advocating on behalf of patients and their families. A little bit about the history. The organization was founded in 1990 by Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld. When he was diagnosed, again, he had that same kind of talk from his doctor that there wasn't really anything that he could do for him. He didn't know a lot of patients that were battling this disease, and to Gene that wasn't acceptable. He was a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern in Chicago. And so he and his wife talked about it, and he said, you know what, I'm going to stop working, and I'm going to start something for patients. He had the Kidney Cancer Association online before people really knew what that meant. And, you know, for him it was just a matter of being able to connect people that he felt that, you know, nobody's heard of this disease, no doctors don't really know what to tell me to do, I can't find anybody else to talk to, and I want to be able to provide any information that I can. And so Gene was a huge advocate, you know, he was right up there, he was in Washington fighting for funding for kidney cancer patients and their families. Unfortunately, Gene did succumb to the disease, and I think, though, that he would feel that his dream is being fulfilled today to be in a room like this, and to see how many of you are here, and to see how far things have come in 1990, and that, you know, now hopefully patients when they walk in and are given a diagnosis by their doctors, that they don't have to hear, I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do for you. So a little bit about the education that we provide, again, as I mentioned, we do patient education, so that can be large regional conferences, such as this one. Support group meetings, I know that Nancy has a group that meets regularly here, and throughout the U.S. we have groups, small groups that meet monthly a couple of times a year, just to, you know, get educated, but also to talk and be there to support one another. And then we also offer online webinars that talk about different topics of the disease, get into a little more detail about some of the different therapies. And then we do physician education as well. We have an international meeting in the U.S. every fall, and then a European meeting every spring in a different European city. And for us, this is kind of the way, again, of our founder's vision is that it's also important just as much to keep patients educated, but to also get the physicians educated. A lot of times in the community setting, the doctors don't know a lot about the disease, they haven't treated a lot of kidney cancer patients, and it's also a form for physicians to talk about the research that they're doing and to be able to share that with one another. If you aren't familiar with our website, kidneycancer.org, that we view as our number one resource, that we've got information, all the information that you could want is there. So if you haven't spent any time on it, I would recommend going, looking at the different events that we have, looking at the educational resources that you can get there. Our nurse advisory board has done a wonderful job of putting together drug information sheets now so that I think it makes it easier for patients to kind of look on a one to two page sheet of the different types of drugs, help you understand if you're on a therapy, how to manage those side effects, what to expect. If you go to the site and are a little bit overwhelmed, you can see in the bottom there where it says leave a message. Normally there's a pop-up box there that's a live chat with either myself or our CEO, Bill Brough. One of us is always on there. So if you're having trouble finding something on the website, you know, have a question that we're happy to answer that in real time for you or direct you to our nurse telephone hotline. So it makes it a little easier to navigate there. We've also got on the site videos from other meetings such as this one, also videos from our medical education meetings. So while those are for physicians only, we do record all of those as well so that you're welcome to see what kind of information is shared in that setting. Just a little bit about clinical trials. We do have some services on our website to help with that. We can connect you directly to the national database on clinical trials. We also have a matching service with Emerging Med and you can put in your information and it will help match you online or there'll be a direct telephone number to talk to somebody to help you with that. And then there's some information just to talk about the importance of clinical trials. And we also got someone out here today from Cedar Sinai that has some information on that. So if that's something you're interested in, we're able to help you learn more about that. We have kidney cancer is our primary publication that is edited annually by our nurse advisory board. We can order copies from our website or you can download a PDF of it or use as an e-reader. We developed about a year ago a companion piece. We have kidney cancer survivor stories that was organized by one of our board members, Mike Lawing, a longtime kidney cancer patient who thought that one of the things that was important to him was being able to hear about the different, the whole different scale of people's experiences with kidney cancer. You know, those who had surgery and it was fine, those who've been on multiple therapies. We've got some caregiver stories in there because that's also a very important and unique perspective for the caregivers of the kidney cancer patients. So that is also available on our website. And then social media is really something that I think just like most industries and organizations that we have seen the most growth on. We've got a Facebook page, Twitter, YouTube channel where you can see all of these videos as well as on Vimeo. And then our kidney cancer connect site is a site that if you can log on, it's separate from our website, but it really allows you to utilize different forums. You can create a forum or join one that's already there and also share your story. So when you log on, you put in your photo and you tell your story and that's the first thing you see is really just different kidney cancer patients sharing their experience with this disease. And so finally, just one last thing to mention, that March is kidney cancer awareness month. So just a few things to mention to you is during the month, you know, where you're orange, where you're orange to work, when you're out and about, how people ask you why you're wearing so much orange. If you're on social media, turn your social media orange, put something on there about kidney cancer, tell your friends and family on there if they don't know a little bit about the disease and get them involved. We ask that also if you consider this time making a donation and memory or an honor of a loved one that we're doing a monthly campaign just to see, to really increase awareness and to kind of get people to push that out there that, you know, it's, while we've seen so much progress that it still is considered a smaller and rare disease and a lot of people have never heard about it and we want to make sure that we can change that and we want more people to learn how they can help. And then, you know, another way is if you want to host some sort of event, we're happy to help you do that too. We've had some people that have been contacting us about, you know, doing a dinner or getting their local restaurants involved to do some sort of, you know, percentage to kidney cancer and just help raise awareness. So we've got those resources if that's something you're interested in doing. So again, I want to thank you. I will be here all day if you have any questions. But again, I thank you all for being here. It's again, amazing to me to see so many of you longtime survivors and some familiar faces now after all these years. So I hope you enjoy the day. Thank you.