PAL: What's New Digest - Oct 2

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What's New Digest posted to lymphomation.org - Oct 2

===Survivorship

Mother risk: Cancer in Pregnancy: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Pregnancy

http://bit.ly/opsHJ0

Medscape: Love the Caregiver as Much as the Patient http://bit.ly/r9Y5Ii

ASCO Expert Corner: The Role of a Tumor Board in Cancer Treatment

http://bit.ly/qgg509

Medscape: Chemotherapy Safe to Give During Pregnancy http://bit.ly/qEkTCx

NCCN: Financial Assistance for People with cancer. http://bit.ly/plaBvz

The Spokesman Review: Diagnosed with lymphoma, photographer turned lens on

himself http://bit.ly/poNwbu

Lymphomation: Tools and Tips from Lymphomation http://bit.ly/ompUde

ASCO: Anti-nausea drugs: Oncology Clinical Practice Guideline Update

http://bit.ly/nCzYxI

===Outcome Reports & Background

MALT - MedWire: 'Excellent' outcomes after H. pylori eradication for

gastric MALT http://bit.ly/nspfIl

Pregnancy - ECCO: Chemo during pregnancy does NOT seem to cause

developmental problems in children http://bit.ly/oCMgXK

NY Presby-Weill Cornell: Two Important Studies Take Us One Step Closer to

Personalized Lymphoma Therapy http://bit.ly/piqxeo

Blood: BeEAM (bendamustine, etoposide, cytarabine, melphalan) before

autologous stem cell transplantation is safe and effective for

resistant/relapsed lymphoma patients http://bit.ly/pGoqsq

Cancer Care: Update on Lymphoma from the 2011 ASCO Annual Meeting

http://bit.ly/poe5dj

CLL Topic Updates: Bendamustine and Rituxan- relapsed/refractory CLL

Bendamustine http://bit.ly/r3VVGO

PubMED: Utility of positron emission tomography scans in mantle cell

lymphoma http://1.usa.gov/o2pGbN

PubMed: Physical activity for patients undergoing an allogeneic

hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: benefits of a moderate exercise

intervention. http://1.usa.gov/pkpENS

DLBCL- PubMed: The Germinal Center/Activated B-Cell Sub-classification Has

a Prognostic Impact for Response to Salvage Therapy in Relapsed/Refractory

DLBCL: A Bio-CORAL Study. http://1.usa.gov/qFylgl

===Videos / Webcasts

NCCN: Video: Talking to patients with a new cancer diagnosis

http://bit.ly/pLqSJj

Patient Power: Personalized Oncology- Where are we now?

===Advocacy and Notices

Drug Shortages and How to address!

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

BBC: Cancer cost 'crisis' warning from oncologists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15032862

Weill-Cornell-lymphoma: Oral Chemotherapy Bill Signed into Law in New York

State http://bit.ly/rqTnUb

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

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

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

Medscape: Congress Urged To Renew Commitment to Cancer Research

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

===Clinical Trials

PAL Pipeline of new drugs with links to trials

PAL Trial tools:

- New Trials since Sept 1

- When to Consider Trials?

- Lookup Trials by Type & Treatment Status

- Antibody-based trials

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

NCI: Which Study Results Are the Most Helpful in Making Cancer Care

Decisions? www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

===PAL Updates

Lookup Trials by Type & Treatment Status

www.lymphomation.org/current.htm

===Food for Thought

University of Leicester: Public ignorant about key messages concerning diet

and cancer http://bit.ly/rn7DnH

Neurologic blog: Well it worked for me. http://bit.ly/mWpjhJ

Mail ONline: Don't give out cancer drugs if it's just to extend life?

http://bit.ly/odMiIq

MD: Learning the hard way that there is an art to medicine

http://bit.ly/qAEfxv

Pharmagossip: Use of cancer drugs questioned - Health News - NHS Choices

http://bit.ly/quagOH

Pharmagossip: NICE blames Pharma R & D model for spiraling cancer drug costs

http://bit.ly/qEYeGi

Science Daily: Drug Companies Must Report Clinical Trial Results, Even When

They Won't Lead to a Product, Experts Urge http://bit.ly/qxsjBP

UCDAVIS: Drug companies must report clinical trial results, even when they

won't lead to a product http://bit.ly/oiH1XX

Respectful Insolence: Abraham Cherrix still battling Hodgkin's Five Years

Later http://bit.ly/nhm1Xu

===Technical ... Theory/Preclinical

Science Daily: Pre-Clinical Research may Prove Promising for the Treatment

of Blood Cancer http://bit.ly/qZ5OMo

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute: Discovery helps explain why chemo causes

drop in platelet numbers http://bit.ly/npqbuG

All the best,

Karl

Patients Against Lymphoma

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