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The New York Times
The Obama administration announced recently that it hoped to spend $1 billion to fund a cancer "moonshot" in search of a cure. But in the costly world of biological research, such a sum may be better described as a cancer slingshot, researchers said.
"The good news is that the budget is no longer being cut," said Dr. Peter Adamson, the chairman of the Children's Oncology Group, which conducts national clinical trials. "But we're not going to the moon on $1 billion."
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World Cancer Day 2016 is Feb. 4. Find out what you can do to mark the day and get involved.
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The Commission on Cancer is hosting a paper competition for physicians in training to foster the importance of oncology research in support of its mission. Papers are due June 30.
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News in Health
For surgeons, removing a tumor is a balancing act. Cut out too much and you risk removing healthy tissues that have important functions. Remove too little and you may leave behind cancer cells that could grow back into a tumor over time.
NIH-funded researchers are developing new technologies to help surgeons determine exactly where tumors end and healthy tissue begins. Their ultimate goal is to make surgery for cancer patients safer and more effective.
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Enjoy our journals? There’s an app for those! Journals such as those from the American Cancer Society ™, Journal of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Science and more are now available for your iPad and iPhone. Sample issues and abstracts, as well as open articles, can be accessed for free. A subscription to the journal is required to read the full text.
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The American College of Surgeons welcomes abstract and video submissions to be considered for presentation at Clinical Congress 2016, Oct. 16–20, Washington, D.C. The deadline for submission is 5 p.m. (CST), Tuesday, March 1. Information and detailed instructions can be found here.
University of Oklahoma via Medical Xpress
When the audio on your television set or smart phone is too loud, you simply turn down the volume. What if we could do the same for the signaling in our bodies that essentially causes normal cells to turn cancerous? New discoveries by researchers at the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma may point to new ways to do just that.
Hiroshi Y. Yamada, Ph.D., and his team zeroed in on chromosome instability as a potential precursor to colon cancer.
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Save the date for the following education programs:
April 1 – Accreditation 101: Learning the Basics of CoC Accreditation and Standards in Denver, sponsored by the Commission on Cancer
May 13-14 – NAPBC Best Practices Conference in Orlando, Florida, sponsored by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers
June 1-2 – Commission on Cancer Annual Conference in Chicago, sponsored by the Commission on Cancer
June 3 – National Cancer Data Base Annual Workshop in Chicago, sponsored by the National Cancer Data Base and the Commission on Cancer
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
A progressive resistance-training intervention had a small to medium effect on fitness, quality of life and nutrition status in patients receiving treatment for head and neck cancer, a study published online in the journal Cancer has shown.
Because patients with head and neck cancer experience weight and muscle mass loss, decreased functioning, malnutrition, depression and quality-of-life declines during and after treatment, researchers sought to determine the optimal timing for the initiation of a lifestyle and progressive resistance exercise training intervention.
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The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is pleased to announce the Request for Participant User File (PUF) Applications is open. The NCDB will accept applications for organ-site specific files, including cases diagnosed between 2004 and 2013, through Feb. 19.
The NCDB PUF is a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-compliant data file containing cases submitted to the Commission on Cancer's (CoC) NCDB. It complies with the terms of the Business Associate Agreement between the American College of Surgeons and cancer programs accredited by the CoC (in other words, no patients or facilities can be identified). The PUF is designed to provide investigators at CoC-accredited cancer programs with a data resource they can use to review and advance the quality of care delivered to cancer patients through analyses of cases reported to the NCDB.
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Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
Just as signposts provide information, direction and guidance, so too cancer biomarkers can better reveal the complex, dynamic and heterogeneous landscape of malignancies. Such information is critical for creating better cancer diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics, but the journey to find just the right biomarker is often a long and winding road.
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If you are affiliated with a CoC-accredited program, please make sure that program responds to the Call for Data to ensure compliance with CoC Standards 5.5 (Data Submission), 5.6, (Accuracy of Data) and requirements for submission deadline extensions. Read this announcement from the National Cancer Data Base to learn more.
JAMA via Medical Xpress
Dr. Kevin R. Riggs, M.P.H., of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, and colleagues analyzed billing data to determine the proportion of colonoscopies for colon cancer screening and polyp surveillance that were preceded by office visits and the associated payments for those visits. The study appears in the Feb. 2 issue of JAMA.
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Oncology Nurse Advisor
Dreams have been the subjects of songs and psychoanalysis, puberty and poetry. There are sweet dreams and there are nightmares... and then there are the dreams that comfort the dying. Although the dreams of hospice patients have not been subjected to a great deal of research, one recent study demonstrates that they can be meaningful and comforting for the person who is dying.
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Consumer Affairs
So you quit smoking, maybe decades ago. That's great. But it still might be a good idea to get regular screenings for lung cancer.
While many former smokers don't get regular screenings, researchers at Mayo Clinic want to expand lung cancer screening to include people who quit smoking more than 15 years ago.
Doing so, they say, would find more cases, find them early and reduce lung cancer deaths.
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