OVARIAN CANCER and US

Sunday, October 26, 2008

click here to view: Recap of 4 related items - Ovarian Cancer Screening/Diagnostic Markers

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Diagnostic Markers for Ovarian Cancer Screening: Not Ready for Routine Clinical Use
Ralph J. Coates, Katherine Kolor, Sherri L. Stewart, and Lisa C. Richardson
Clin. Cancer Res., Oct 2008; 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2296.

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... ...Editor Diagnostic Markers for Ovarian Cancer Screening: Not Ready for Routine...of women who are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year (1) and the poor survival...of a serum biomarker test for ovarian cancer with a reported sensitivity of... ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
The Importance of Test Positive Predictive Value in Ovarian Cancer Screening
Mark H. Greene, Ziding Feng, and Mitchell H. Gail
Clin. Cancer Res., Oct 2008; 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2232.

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... ...Test Positive Predictive Value in Ovarian Cancer Screening Mark H. Greene Ziding...immunoassay system as a candidate for ovarian cancer screening in high-risk populations...has recently been marketed as an ovarian cancer screening test by LabCorp, under... ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Claims Are Biased
Martin McIntosh, Garnet Anderson, Charles Drescher, Samir Hanash, Nicole Urban, Pat Brown, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, George Coukos, Peter W. Laird, Brad Nelson, and Chana Palmer
Clin. Cancer Res., Oct 2008; 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-0623.

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... ...Letters to the Editor Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Claims Are Biased...1) claim the ability to detect ovarian cancer early and with 95.3% sensitivity...used to compare the plasma from ovarian cancer cases and healthy controls. Specimens... ...

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In Response
Gil Mor, Peter E. Schwartz, and Herbert Yu
Clin. Cancer Res., Oct 2008; 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-08-2621.

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... ...markers for the early detection of ovarian cancer," and an erratum table published...population based on the incidence of ovarian cancer in the general population, which...Yale Early Detection Program for Ovarian Cancer in the Department of Obstetrics... ...

Gardasil Passes a 2-Year Safety Check

Gardasil Passes a 2-Year Safety Check:

"Most parents' concerns about Gardasil were not explicitly related to concerns about vaccine safety."

The Lancet Oncology - World Cancer Declaration (needs password - free - to view)

The Lancet Oncology

Reflection and Reaction

World Cancer Declaration: a need for partnership

"We can no longer afford to sit on our hands and watch people die needlessly. We all have a personal and common responsibility to help overcome this global challenge and I encourage you to read the World Cancer Declaration, endorse the policy via the UICC website, and think carefully about what changes you can do, however small, in your private and professional lives to bring about change, before we live to regret this moment in history."

The Lancet Oncology - The Ideal Pleurodesis Agent: still searching after all of these years (requires password - free - to view)

The Lancet Oncology

2008 Health Care in Canada - full report (103 pages)

HCIC_2008_e.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Health Care in Canada 2008 (HCIC 2008) is the ninth in a series of annual
reports on the health care system and the health of Canadians. This year,
HCIC 2008 provides a review of key analytic work undertaken at CIHI that
highlights CIHI’s health care research priorities (access, quality of care, costs,
health human resources and population mental health). Also included in this
report are key findings from seminal Canadian and international health care
research as they relate to these health care priorities. HCIC 2008 is a reference
tool to identify current priorities in health care for health researchers, persons
involved in strategic decision-making in health care, the media and Canadians
in general.

Low grade serous ovarian cancer: a unique disease

HighWire Press -- Medline Abstract

link to 4 articles re: diagnostic markers discussion ovarian cancer

In Response - Mor et al

Letters to the Editor Ovarian Cancer Early Detection Claims Are Biased

Letters to the Editor Diagnostic Markers for Ovarian Cancer Screening: Not Ready for Routine Clinical Use

Letters to the Editor The Importance of Test Positive Predictive Value in Ovarian Cancer Screening

God Syndrome | Psychology Today Blogs

God Syndrome | Psychology Today Blogs: "Medicine is a complex affair; we frequently do not do justice to what our patients suffer and what they need."

Thursday, October 23, 2008

news item: Gates Foundation Awards $100,000 grants (non-peer review)

Flying Syringes and Other Bold Ideas - washingtonpost.com

"In making its picks, the foundation has rejected the widespread practice of peer review -- assigning other specialists in a field to evaluate research -- because, in the words of Tadataka Yamada, the foundation's director of global health, "peer review -- by definition almost -- excludes innovation because innovation has no peers."

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Anxiety and prevalence of psychiatric disorders among patients awaiting surgery for suspected ovarian cancer

Anxiety and prevalence of psychiatric disorders am...[J Obstet Gynaecol Res. 2008] - PubMed Result

Monday, October 20, 2008

FDA (U.S.) Creates Web Page with Drug Safety Information for Patients, Health Care Professionals

FDA Creates Web Page with Drug Safety Information for Patients, Health Care Professionals

Friday, October 17, 2008

U.S. Seer Statistics Ovarian Cancer 1975-2005

sect_21_ovary.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

British Journal of Cancer - Survival from cancer of the ovary in England and Wales up to 2001

The Cochrane Collaboration - Multimedia from the Plenaries at the XIV Cochrane Colloquium in Freiburg, Germany, October 2008

TheStar.com | Federal Election | Health policy debate fizzles despite Canadians' priorities

"Canadians are justly proud of their health system but this election campaign does not mirror their concerns,"

TheStar.com | Federal Election | Health policy debate fizzles despite Canadians' priorities

"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing 'work' and 'return to work' - abstract

"So, are you back to work yet?" Re-conceptualizing...[Soc Sci Med. 2008] - PubMed Result

"..When patients return for surgical follow up, clinicians routinely ask, "So, are you back to work yet?" expecting simple 'yes/no' answers.

This study suggests that the answer is instead highly complex, and that patients could be seen as having been 'working' all along. This study offers a re-conceptualization of 'work' and 'return to work'....."