Lymphomation: What's New Digest - August 20, 2011

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What's New Digest - August 20, 2011

By Anjou for PAL

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

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Survivorship

NY Times: Finding a quality doctor

NCI: Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment

WSJ: For Cancer Patients, Help Navigating the Maze

MD: Taking the time to answer patient questions

Philly.com: Studying the positive side of Trauma and Grief

My Cancer Advisor: Should you get a second opinion

My Cancer Advisor: Preparing for hair loss after Chemo

My Cancer Advisor: How Do I Get My Medical Records?

MD.COM: Why developing trust with your doctor is

important

Medical News Today: Docs Urge Cancer Patients To Discuss

Supplements Before Treatment

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Reports / Background

Fox Chase:

IMRT improves outcomes in patients with extranodal lymphoma of the head and

neck

British J of Haematology:

VcR-CVAD induction chemo followed by maintenance Rituxan in MCL

Medical News Today:

New Drug In Early Clinical Testing Offers New Hope For Treatment Of Chronic

Leukemia

Univ of PA press release:

Triple therapy regime puts patients with leukemic form of cutaneous lymphoma

in remission (Retrospective study)

NEJM Early Stage Hodgkin's

Is ecstasy 'being developed to treat blood cancers'? Not

quite.

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Videos / Webcasts

National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Cancer treatment is

viewed as a true partnership video

Health Smart: Facing Cancer Together General cancer video

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

Our Letter on the need to amend CMS reimbursement policy

for

radioimmunotherapy PDF

PAL endorses Betsy de Parry's Petition,

which is easy to sign!

Drug Shortages and How to Address!

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Clinical Trials

7 Reasons to Consider Clinical Trials:

based on your clinical circumstances PAL

Lymphoma Studies sponsored by CALGB cooperative group - now

called the ALLIANCE

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PAL Updates

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

Cancer Research UK: In the news: re-tooling the body's

police force to beat leukaemia

Cure today: Why is randomization in clinical trials

important?

Washington Post 'Comparative effectiveness research' tackles

medicine's unanswered questions

Clinical Oncology News 40 Years of DLBCL Give CHOP, Add

Rituxan-Is that all there is?

Clinical Oncology News: Is Patient Optimism unrealistic In

Early-Phase Trials?

Cancer Network: ASCO 2011: Steve Joffe Discusses

Controversies in Phase I Clinical Trials

ls of Oncology: Response criteria for NHL: Importance of

'normal' lymph node size and correlations with response rates

NCI: Hyperthermia in Cancer Treatment?

Medscape: Do Biologics (used for rheumatologic disease)

Cause Cancer

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Technical and Theory

BBC Cancer discovery offers hope of tackling spread of

disease

Cancer Network:

Novel PARP Inhibitor for Solid Tumors & Lymphomas

Medical News Today: Stem Cells Central To Pathogenesis Of

Mature Lymphoid Tumors

University of Copenhagan: Researchers on the trail of a

treatment for cancer of the immune system (EBV related blood cancers)

Cancer Research: In Vivo Programming of Tumor

Antigen-Specific T Lymphocytes from Pluripotent Stem Cells to Promote Cancer

Immunosurveillance

Data mining' to generate hypotheses for testing new

indications for existing drugs.

Cornell-lymphoma Blog: Cyclophosphamide may be associated

with an increased risk of secondary myeloid neoplasia when given with

Fludarabine in CLL

Advances in Hematology: Review Article Recent Advances in

the Pathobiology of Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Potential Impact on Diagnostic,

Predictive, and Therapeutic Strategies

NY Times: Cancer's Secrets Come Into Sharper Focus

~ Karl

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

www.lymphomation.org