lymphomation categorized news items for the week - 9/10/2011

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What's New Digest - 9/10/2011

Highlights of news items posted to PAL on FaceBook grouped by:

Advocacy and Notices | Clinical Trials | Food for Thought | Outcome Reports

& Background | Our (PAL) Updates | Survivorship | Videos / Webcasts

===Survivorship

News Medical: Pulitzer photojournalist with lymphoma films his experiences

Cancer: Pretreatment fertility counseling and fertility preservation

improve quality of life in reproductive age women with cancer

Pubmed: Sexual well-being among survivors of NHL

NY Times: Need Sleep? Stay Out of the Hospital

NCCN: Taking Charge of Follow Up Care

CaringBridge: If you haven't seen it, Caringbridge is a great way to keep

in touch with family and friends during treatment

NY Times: When Doctors Become Patients

===Outcome Reports & Background

Globes Israeli Business Arena: Curetech lymphoma trial succeeds (phase 2,

diffuse)

Nature: A phase II trial of the oral mTOR inhibitor Everolimus in relapsed

aggressive lymphoma

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports:

PET in T-Cell Lymphoma

European J Nuclear Med and Molecular Imaging: Early interim 18F-FDG PET in

Hodgkin's lymphoma: evaluation on 304 patients

JCO: Is There a Role for Bortezomib Combinations in the Management of

Patients With Follicular Lymphoma? (Velcade)

Cornell-lymphoma.com: Upcoming Cancer Care Workshop: Update on Diffuse

Large B-cell Lymphoma

===Videos / Webcasts

Cornell-lymphoma.com: Understanding the Importance of Clinical Trials -

Wickerham, , Leonard webcast

The First international radio internet forum on lymphoma to be held on Sept

14

=== Advocacy and Notices

LLS:

Understanding Your Treatment Options Telephone or web conference 9/14

LRF: Philadelphia-Ask the Doctor: Updates on Lymphoma and Treatments

R. , MD Fox Chase Cancer Center 10/12/11

LA Times: U.S. requires health insurers to publicly justify big rate hikes

Chicago Blood Cancer Foundation: First International Lymphoma Awareness

Forum (radio broadcast) 9/12/11

PAL:

Lymphoma Awareness Month Brochure - PDF

PAL:

Reasons for drug shortages, proposed solutions

and related articles

PAL:

Our Letter to CMS on need to amend reimbursement policy for

radioimmunotherapy

===Clinical Trials

Cornell-lymphoma.com: Understanding the Importance of Clinical Trials

* I just gave this a listen ... it's worth listening to!

Clinical trial:

Phase 2 Safety and Efficacy Study of CAL-101 (GS-1101) in Relapsed or

Refractory Hodgkin Lymphoma

7 Reasons to Consider Clinical Trials:

based on your clinical circumstances

Lymphoma Studies sponsored by CALGB cooperative group - now called the

ALLIANCE

===PAL Updates

Cancer-related fatigue - a patient's perspective

Understanding the lymphatic system

Treatment support

Advancing the Informed and Routine Consideration of Clinical Trials

Treatment-Related Questions for Your Doctor

Is it Ethical to Require a Tissue Biopsy of Participants in Clinical

Trials?

===Food for Thought

Mutations of mortality: Why experts do better (Commentary on CLL Study

posted earlier)

CLL Topic Updates: Does Your Doctor's Expertise Matter?

Science Based Medicine: Commentary on BMJ article on Comparative Drug

Research

Medical News Today: New Drugs Should Be Compared To Current Treatments

Before Approval

===Technical/Theory/Preclinical

Science News: Harmless Soil-Dwelling Bacteria Successfully Kill Cancer

BBC: Cancer drug resistance clue found-may be possible to extend the

usefulness of cancer drugs

To access, go to News and Reports:

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

OR www.facebook.com/lymphomation.PAL

(requires facebook account)

Special thanks is due to Anjou!

~ Karl

PATIENTS (helping-to-make-progress) AGAINST LYMPHOMA

www.lymphomation.org