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NCCRT
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, and Katie Couric is posting short videos each day to drive home the message that colorectal cancer screening saves lives. The video series includes shout-outs from TV and movie stars urging everyone who should be screened for colorectal cancer to get screened. More than 50 different celebrities, including William H. Macy, Glenn Close and Al Roker, are joining in. A new video will be posted on Instagram and YouTube daily, and you can also view the previous videos. Share this information within your facility and help achieve the 80 percent by 2018 goal.
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On average, one person dies of melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, every hour. Because this disease can affect anyone, everyone should take steps to reduce their risk and catch melanoma in its earliest stages, when it's most treatable.
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ACS Cancer Programs
March 22 is the new deadline for submitting a proposal for the 2017 Cancer Programs Conference: Creating a Culture of Quality. This conference, developed by the AJCC, CoC, NAPBC, NCDC, and ACS CRP, will focus on issues impacting healthcare providers committed to providing patients with cancer and breast disease high-quality, comprehensive, multi-disciplinary, patient-centered care. Plan to attend the conference Sept. 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Rosemont (Chicago). Click here if you would like to be notified when conference registration opens.
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Medical Xpress
Move over, cell signaling. Scientists seeking to understand embryonic development need to make room for metabolism, according to a new study, led by Harvard Medical School developmental biologist Olivier Pourquié, that also has implications for regenerative medicine and cancer research.
For decades, scientists crowned cell signaling — that is, communication within and among cells — the king of embryonic development, decreeing which cells go where and what tissues they ultimately become. Energy metabolism, the thinking went, hummed along in the background, uniform across every cell.
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NAPBC
Register today for the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) Accreditation Workshop: Pursuing Excellence through NAPBC Accreditation in Chicago on May 5. Designed for centers seeking accreditation for the first time and centers seeking re-accreditation, this program provides an overview of the survey process and enables you to:
- Discuss the NAPBC components and standards
- Describe what is expected prior to, during, and post-survey
- Explain the importance of quality improvement and how NAPBC makes a difference in this area
- Identify what is needed to achieve NAPBC accreditation from an administrator's point of view
This program has been approved by the National Cancer Registrars Association for 6.25 continuing education units.
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Cure
Many young breast cancer survivors are faced with making fertility preservation decisions before being treated for cancer, as treatment for breast cancer increases the risk of infertility.
Researchers from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) examined if fertility concerns and fertility preservation treatment decisions are related to decisional regret.
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Reuters
Cancer patients may ease fatigue more effectively with exercise and psychotherapy than with medication, a recent study suggests.
Researchers examined data from 113 previously published studies involving more than 11,500 cancer patients with fatigue. Patients were randomly assigned to treat their exhaustion with exercise or psychotherapy, or both, or with drugs.
Exercise and psychotherapy were associated with a 26 percent to 30 percent reduction in fatigue during and after cancer treatment, the study found. Drugs, however, were tied to only a 9 percent decline in fatigue.
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NAPBC
If you are attending the National Consortium of Breast Centers 27th Annual Interdisciplinary Breast Center Conference, make sure to stop by Booth 211 and meet National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) staff. Staff will be available to answer question about NAPBC and Commission on Cancer (CoC) accreditation.
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Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is actively recruiting general and trauma surgeons with experience in emergency obstetrics for international missions in developing countries. Learn more.
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Medical Xpress
A drug already used to slow tumor growth may also prevent infertility caused by standard chemotherapies, according to a study published online March 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Led by researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center, the study in mice found that the drug everolimus protects ovaries from cyclophosphamide, a chemotherapy used often against breast cancer but known to deplete the supply of egg cells needed to achieve pregnancy.
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WebMD
Carrying extra weight increases the risk of a number of cancers, a new review reports.
Additional pounds appear to particularly influence the risk of cancers related to the digestive organs or those driven by hormonal abnormalities, according to the review's European authors.
The evidence is so strong at this point that important organizations such as the International Agency for Research on Cancer describe "excess body weight as an important cause of cancers," said Susan Gapstur.
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NBC News
Breast cancer patients who eat the most soy foods are also less likely to die early, a new study finds.
Researchers found women who ate the most soy foods were 21 percent less likely to die over 9 1/2 years than women who ate the least.
And, contrary to some fears, soy had no bad effects on women with breast cancer fueled by the hormone estrogen, the study found.
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