Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Deadline February 28th: Nominations: Becoming a Member
Ideal Candidates for the NCI Director's Consumer Liaison Group:
Ideal candidates must:
1. have first-hand knowledge of the cancer experience;
2. be affiliated with a cancer-related constituency; and
3. possess relevant non-scientific skills and perspectives that will allow them to help improve research outcomes by identifying new approaches, promoting innovation, recognizing unforeseen risks or barriers, and identifying unintended consequences that could result from NCI decisions.
Wait Times For Medical Care: How The US Actually Measures Up - Better Health
Note: ACOR ovarian cancer members - the report will be in the archives - Commonwealth Fund
Journal of Chemotherapy 2009 full access: What is the Benefit of 'Avastin' Combined with Chemotherapy in Patients - recurrent Ovarian, Primary ....
Journal of Chemotherapy 2009 full access: What is the Benefit of 'Avastin' Combined with Chemotherapy in Patients - recurrent Ovarian, Primary Peritoneal, Fallopian Tube Cancers.
Note: 64 patients in study; descriptive (stage 1C+); stage 1/11=4 pts; clear cell (2);endometrioid (3); mucinous (2);platinum resistant; side effects....(paper takes time to download)
Cochrane Collaboration Review: Retroperitoneal drainage versus no drainage after pelvic lymphadenectomy for the prevention of lymphocyst formation in patients with gynaecological malignancies
Authors' conclusions:
Placement of retroperitoneal tube drains has no benefit in prevention of lymphocyst formation after pelvic lymphadenectomy in patients with gynaecological malignancies. When the pelvic peritoneum is left open, the tube drain placement is associated with a higher risk of short and long-term symptomatic lymphocyst formation.
Antibodies Against Abnormal Glycoproteins Identified as Possible Biomarkers for Cancer Detection press release - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
"The team used this approach to screen blood specimens from breast, ovarian and prostate cancer patients....They found distinct abnormal mucin-type O-glycopeptide epitopes (parts of molecules that antibodies will recognize and bind to) that were targeted by autoantibodies in cancer patients — but such antibodies were absent in healthy controls.....Although larger sets of specimens will have to be analyzed to fully appreciate the clinical value of this technology, the preliminary results are very promising.The study was an international collaboration that was funded in part by NCI through the trans-NIH Alliance of Glycobiologists for Detection of Cancer and Cancer Risk."
Stanford's Canary Center strives to find cancer sooner than every before - 2/01/10 - San Francisco News
"Scientists at the Canary Center say their first blood test, developed for ovarian cancer, is about to begin phase one clinical trials at Stanford. The first patient group will be women at high risk for ovarian cancer."
In Research: Magnetic Nanoparticles Latch On, Ferry Cancer Cells Out of Body
includes reference to ovarian cancer
End of LIfe Care in the 21st Century: Advanced Directives in Universal Rights Discourse
....legally binding international convention that would outlaw human rights violations in end-of-life decision-making.
Evidence-Based Medicine Requires Appropriate Clinical Context - re: Deep VeingThrombosis (excerpt)
"What if a patient—after diagnostic tests have been performed and there is no more certainty to obtain—still has a 1 in 100 chance of having venous thromboembolism (VTE)? Should the patient's physician engage the patient in a discussion of the harm and benefit of anticoagulation? What if the chance of VTE was 1 in 20? Or even 1 in 10?"
Effectiveness of a home care nursing program in the symptom management of patients with colorectal and breast cancer receiving oral chemotherapy
Note: includes professional commentaries; Implications for all patients ($$)
Searching for the roots of ovarian cancer | Health & Fitness News - OregonLive.com
"It's very frustrating for patients and for researchers that there hasn't been significant advances in ovarian cancer," says Dr. Tanja Pejovic, a gynecologic oncologist and associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University......Pejovic's group at OHSU is among those seeking to understand the basic biology as a means to zero in on likely markers of early disease. In a study reported in December, the group monitored the action of 69 genes in cells that make up the ovarian surface epithelium. They identified a set of genes that appear to become more active as cells progress from normal to cancerous......"We are still trying to understand early events," she says. But Pejovic remains optimistic."We have to understand early events to the point where it can lead us to markers that circulate in the blood."
Reuters Health Information (2010-02-02): Simple ovarian cysts not linked to cancer in postmenopausal women
"Women with and without simple cysts were at similar risk of invasive ovarian cancer after nearly 8 years of follow-up evaluation, the authors write. Furthermore, traditional ovarian cancer risk factors, such as increasing age, family history of breast or ovarian cancer, nulliparity, and infertility, were not associated with simple cysts. Finally, changes in average CA-125 were not correlated with increases in the number or progression of simple cysts.Thus, Dr. Greenlee and his group conclude, "Simple cysts are not likely cancer precursors or markers of increased risk and can be followed conservatively.""
full free access: A novel germline PALB2 deletion in Polish breast and ovarian cancer patients
Conclusions:
The c.509_510delGA is a novel PALB2 mutation that increases the risk of familial breast cancer. Occurrence of the same PALB2 alteration in seven unrelated women suggests that c.509_510delGA (p.R170fs) is a recurrent mutation for Polish population.
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