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ACS
The 2018 Cancer Programs Annual Conference: Learn. Interact. Transform will be held in Chicago, Sept. 5-7. Be a part of this exciting conference that is targeted to health care providers committed to providing comprehensive, multidisciplinary, high-quality, patient-centered care. Share your knowledge and expertise with your peers and colleagues by responding to the call for posters. Complete submissions are due by Friday, July 6. For additional information, refer to the Poster/Resource Submission application.
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NPR
Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, most frequently diagnosed among adults over 65. To catch those typically slow-growing malignancies early, when they can often be cured, most doctors' groups recommend colorectal cancer screening starting at age 50.
But the American Cancer Society recently changed its advice and is recommending that screening start five years earlier.
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Wiley Online Library
In the United States, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth most common cancer diagnosed among adults and the second leading cause of death from cancer. For this guideline update, the American Cancer Society (ACS) used an existing systematic evidence review of the CRC screening literature and microsimulation modeling analyses, including a new evaluation of the age to begin screening by race and sex and additional modeling that incorporates changes in U.S. CRC incidence.
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Medical News Today
Viruses are small, rapidly replicating, infectious agents that can only survive within the cells of other organisms.
They can be found in every ecosystem on earth and can infect all lifeforms.
Capable of causing thousands of conditions — from the common cold to the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever — viruses are as successful as they are deadly.
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The Wall Street Journal
While genetic diseases pose the single biggest source of infant mortality in the U.S., many of these disorders are so rare and little understood that an accurate diagnosis can take weeks or months.
Some babies don’t have that much time. For others, the battery of tests that tend to be ordered adds to their suffering and often still ends with no diagnosis.
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ScienceDaily
Just because you stopped smoking years ago doesn't mean you're out of the woods when it comes to developing lung cancer. That's the "bad" news. The good news is your risk of lung cancer drops substantially within five years of quitting.
These are the main findings of a new analysis of the landmark Framingham Heart Study by researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center published May 16 by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Medical Xpress
When scientists first described the receptors responsible for our sense of smell, they naturally assumed that these chemical sensors resided exclusively in the lining of our noses. But then olfactory receptors started turning up in the strangest places — the lungs, liver, skin, heart, testes and intestines. Nearly a quarter of a century later, researchers are still wondering what these receptors are doing in such disparate locations.
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Nature
Some people are born with exceptional sensitivity to sunlight. Fifty years ago, writing in Nature, the biologist James Cleaver reported a study of one such condition and concluded that a failure of DNA repair was related to the extreme susceptibility of affected individuals to skin cancer. This was the first description of defective DNA repair in a genetically inherited disorder that makes people prone to cancer.
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| ACS CANCER PROGRAMS UPDATES |
ACS
The AJCC Cancer Staging Manual is the gold standard to help the cancer patient management team determine the correct stage for patients, allowing for the most appropriate care plan.
The AJCC Cancer Staging Manual is used by physicians and health care professionals throughout the world to facilitate the uniform description and reporting of neo-plastic diseases. Proper classification and staging of cancer is essential for the physician to assign proper treatment, evaluate results of management and clinical trials and to serve as the standard for local, regional and international reporting on cancer incidence and outcome.
This corrected third printing includes the following features:
- Revised breast cancer staging system
- Revised histology codes in each chapter
- Corrected errata posted on www.cancerstaging.org through Feb. 2, 2018
Special 25 percent discount expires Sept. 30!
Order your copy today.
ACS
This is an annual event observed the first Sunday in June. The CoC has designed a poster for download and use in your celebrations in the spring.
2018 National Cancer Survivors Day Poster
2018 National Cancer Survivors Day Poster with crop marks
American College of Surgeons - NAPRC
The National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC) is now accepting applications. The NAPRC was developed to ensure that rectal cancer patients receive appropriate care following a multidisciplinary approach. Programs will be evaluated on the standards and metrics outlined in The National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer Standards Manual 2017 (revised October 2017).
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| IMPORTANT DATES AND DEADLINES |
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Call for Data closes
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| July 21-24 |
ACS Quality and Safety Conference
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Orlando, FL
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| Sept. 5-7 |
2018 Cancer Programs Conference
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Chicago, IL
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| Oct. 21-25 |
ACS Clinical Congress
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Boston, MA
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