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Medium
In his 2016 State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama called on Vice President Biden to lead a new, national "Cancer Moonshot" to dramatically accelerate efforts to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer — to achieve a decade's worth of progress in five years. By leveraging decades of scientific understanding from the study and care of cancer, creating and aggregating immensely powerful datasets and developing unprecedented science and technological capabilities, we as a nation are positioned to end cancer as we know it.
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ACS
Courtney M. Townsend Jr., a general surgeon from Galveston, Texas, was installed as the 97th President of the American College of Surgeons during the Convocation ceremony of the College. The Convocation preceded the opening of the annual ACS Clinical Congress, which is one of the largest international meetings of surgeons in the world.
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AJCC
The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) has released the eighth edition of its Cancer Staging Manual. This edition presents evidence‐based revisions for staging cancer for a number of organ sites and includes the rationale and rules for staging; the definitions of tumor, lymph node involvement and metastasis (TNM); stage groupings; and histologic grade. The American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer will require accredited hospitals to use the eighth edition for all cancer cases diagnosed on or after Jan. 1, 2017. The new publication can be purchased online.
Chicago Tribune
Still in shock after learning she had cancer during a routine doctor's visit, Joann Fox barely took in what physicians said.
Radiation and chemotherapy were mentioned as options, but one treatment was new to Fox: immunotherapy.
"I just listened, because I'd never heard of it before," Fox, 77, said.
Immunotherapy, which uses certain parts of a person's immune system to fight diseases, could be an option for her non-small cell lung cancer, a doctor said.
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Medical Xpress
Most Americans with thyroid cancer have an operation to remove the thyroid gland, but those with a smaller, less-threatening form of thyroid cancer may be missing out on a less extensive, less costly and safer operation that's actually more effective in treating their cancer, according to study results presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2016.
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Medscape
On Oct. 11, Diane Jooris, CEO and co-founder of the health tech start-up Oncomfort, won the first annual C3 Prize for her work developing a virtual reality system to manage cancer patients' stress and anxiety during treatment. The C3 Prize, developed and launched in April by pharmaceutical company Astellas Oncology, aims to inspire nonpharmacologic innovations, such as Jooris's, that can improve cancer care and patient quality of life.
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Obesity is a risk factor for a constellation of diseases, including cancer. Obesity increases the risk for at least eight cancers (endometrial, renal, esophageal, colon, thyroid, gall bladder, pancreas, post-menopausal breast and ovarian cancer). In 2011, the National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop describing the role of obesity in cancer survival and recurrence. Obesity is an acknowledged risk factor for cancer-related mortality from at least 14 cancers. For example, large pooled analyses of patients with breast and prostate cancers have shown that weight gain after diagnosis is a poor prognostic factor; for each gain of 5 kg/m2, there is an estimated 20 percent and 29 percent increase in prostate and breast cancer-specific mortality, respectively.
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Medscape
Eleven of the 15 cancers responsible for premature death and loss of healthy life years in U.S. residents are closely linked to smoking and alcohol, a new study shows.
Estimates of the burden of cancer in 2011, assessed by race and ethnicity for 24 cancers, reveal a loss of 9.8 million years of healthy life because of cancer, say Joannie Lortet-Tieulent, of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, Georgia, and colleagues.
Premature death was responsible for about 90 percent of all healthy years of life lost because of cancer, and 10 percent were due to cancer-related health problems that led to a decrease in quality of life.
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Over the past few months, the AJCC held five disease site webinars (Melanoma, Lung, Breast, Colorectum and Prostate) based on the AJCC Seventh Edition. For people unable to attend the live programs, the AJCC will provide free recordings of each webinar. Included with the webinar are pre- and post-education quizzes to serve as a self-assessment for the information learned. The webinars will provide information on the uniqueness, differences, exceptions or special concerns for the disease sites.
To view the recordings or to learn more about the Disease Site webinars and stay informed, go to the AJCC website.
DOTmed.com
Almost one-third of breast cancer patients aren't receiving a recommended annual mammogram, according to research presented at the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons annual meeting.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health investigated the use of surveillance mammography and breast MR in women who underwent a surgical procedure to treat Stage II and II breast cancer. The data, which came from the National Cancer Database, included 9,622 women who underwent the procedure from 2006 to 2007.
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prIME Patients is prIME Oncology’s resource center for patients with cancer and their caregivers. Our patient-focused videos explain, in layman’s terms, how certain treatments fight the various cancers. This information will arm you with the knowledge on what to expect during your course treatment so that you can be an informed part of the decision making team.
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CoC
The Commission on Cancer is hosting a paper competition for physicians-in-training to foster the importance of oncologic research in support of its mission. Papers are due June 30, 2017.
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Healio
A 2006 Massachusetts healthcare reform that served as a model for the Affordable Care Act increased rates of resection and decreased probability of emergent resection for patients with colorectal cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Thus, health insurance expansion under Affordable Care Act reforms may improve access to care for patients with colorectal cancer, according to the researchers.
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Medscape
Cancer is often cited as the disease most Americans fear, and the latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute show that it will affect more than 1 in 3 people (39 percent).
But the risk for many cancers could be reduced. The American Institute for Cancer Research said recently that "we can prevent nearly one-third of the cancers that occur every year in the U.S. if Americans made healthier choices, including moving more and eating smart."
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CNN
Young people who get the human papillomavirus vaccine before turning 15 need only two doses, rather than three, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced recently.
It recommends that children ages 11 and 12 receive two doses of the HPV vaccine at least six months apart; 13- and 14-year-olds may also use this schedule. People who start the series at 15 through 26 still need three doses, it said.
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