Lymphomation Digest: August 27, 2011

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Greetings,

Within we provide a list of lymphomation: news items and reports.

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News and Reports: www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

OR www.facebook.com/lymphomation.PAL

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=== A topical/tropical feature from ACS:

Coping With Cancer After a Natural Disaster

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Survivorship topics

MD:

Top 10 musts for your hospital visit

NCCN:

Oral Chemotherapy: Potentials and Misconceptions

UCSF:

Study Shows Greater Impact of Chemo on Fertility

Live Science:

Nurses Exposed to Toxic Cancer Drugs, Study Finds

MD:

Taking care of yourself sometimes means being selfish (For the caregivers

out there!)

MD:

Patients need to contribute to help their doctors

NEJM:

The Doctor's Dilemma - What Is " Appropriate " Care?

Oncology Times:

VIEW FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STETHOSCOPE: " It's Okay "

Information Week:

Patients say they want more e-mail-based communications with their

clinicians. Despite obstacles, momentum is growing.

Oncology Times:

Stopping Time. Excellent essay by Dr. Harpham (end of life issues)

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Reports / Background

ASCO POST:

Combined Therapy Produces Good Outcomes in Primary Testicular Diffuse Large

B-cell Lymphoma

ODAC:

Recommends Accelerated Approval for Brentuximab

CURE:

New drug for two types of lymphoma

NCCN:

Updated patient info on NHL

PubMED:

Interim (mid-treatment) PET Not Justified In DLBCL During First Line

Immuno-Chemotherapy

AM J Hematology:

Follicular lymphoma: 2011 update on diagnosis and management

Cochrane:

Comparison of chemotherapy including escalated BEACOPP vs chemotherapy

including ABVD for patients with early unfavorable or advanced stage Hodgkin

lymphoma

ISRN Hematology:

A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Front-line Anthracycline-Based

Chemotherapy Regimens for Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma

Comment: Speaks to the need for routine referral to clinical trials for

patients with PTCL NOS.

Blood:

Bazarbachi, Suarez, Fields,and Hermine

How I treat adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma

NCCN:

Understanding Your Risk of Developing Secondary Cancers

Consortium for Improving Survival of Lymphoma:

Multicenter retrospective analysis of 581 patients with primary intestinal

non-Hodgkin lymphoma

ASH:

The 2008 WHO classification of lymphomas: implications for clinical practice

and translational research

UCLA:

Results of medication studies in top medical journals may be misleading to

readers- study highlights 3 types of confusing outcome measures

AMer J Roengenology:

Whole-Body MRI at Initial Diagnosis of Lymphoma - a non-ionizing modality,

may be useful as an alternative to PET/CT in the malignant lymphoma. "

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Videos / Webcasts

Youtube:

Learn about the importance of a specific subtype diagnosis in adults with

NHL in this video, led by Dr. Sweetenham.

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Advocacy and Notices

LLS:

Understanding Your Treatment Options Telephone or web conference 9/14

PAL:

Our Letter to CMS on need to amend reimbursement policy for

radioimmunotherapy

PAL endorses Betsy de Parry's Petition

PAL:

Drug Shortages and How to Address!

MSNBC:

High price tag for treatment with new cancer drug for anaplastic large cell

lymphoma

The Week:

The 'amazing' cancer treatment that costs $100,000 A slew of new drugs are

powerfully effective at fighting cancer.

NY Times:

An Insurance Maze for U.S. Doctors

Oncology Times:

Oncology Drug Shortages Worsening, Threatening Patient Care

NY Times:

U.S. Scrambling to Ease Shortage of Vital Medicine

Oncology Times:

MUSINGS OF A CANCER DOCTOR: The Cost of Drugs

MSNBC:

Does Gov. 's use of an unproven stem cell 'treatment' send wrong

message?

Fixing the Drug Shortage:

It's About Time By Raghavan, MD, PhD

Snip: " ly, I don't know how the hematologists who treat blood cancers

can sleep at night. "

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Clinical Trials

7 Reasons to Consider Clinical Trials:

based on your clinical circumstances

Lymphoma Studies sponsored by CALGB cooperative group - now called the

ALLIANCE

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PAL Updates

Words of encouragement for lymphoma patients

Watchful waiting for indolent lymphomas

Exercise - just " do it "

How indolent Lymphomas are Monitored

Comments on Programming T-cells

to Kill Malignant B-Lymphocytes

To Port or Not to Port - and related

drug administration questions (draft)

PET scan - clinical use

" very little is certain and agreed upon. "

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Food for Thought

MD.Com:

Are doctors to blame for long waiting room times?

Cancer Research UK:

UK Government releases new cancer patients' waiting time stats

MD:

The entire approach to food based on nutrients is wrong

Oncology Times:

Speak Up: 8 Words & Phrases to Ban in Oncology!

Oncology Times:

Lymphoma Expert Calls for more Focus in Clinical

Respectful Insolence:

The complexity of cancer, Part 1

Part 2: Enter the quacks

Respectful Insolence:

If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we cure cancer?

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Technical and Theory and Preclinical

Medical News Today:

KRN5500 For Chemotherapy-Induced Neuropathic Pain Gets Fast Track

Designation By FDA

Medical News Today:

On Trail Of A Treatment For Cancer Of The Immune System

7th Space Interactive:

Subtype Distribution of Lymphomas in Southwest China: (for our readers in

China)

Lerner Research Institute:

Researchers find new hope for treatment of chronic leukemia

Links posted to

News and Reports: www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

OR www.facebook.com/lymphomation.PAL (requires facebook account)

Stay safe!

~ Karl

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

www.lymphomation.org