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When 91-year-old former President Jimmy Carter announced he was cancer-free from a dangerous melanoma that had metastasized to his brain, the nation cheered his good news.
Cheers also went up in cancer labs and treatment centers around the country, as front-line doctors applauded the message his success sends to other melanoma patients, especially the elderly.
"A lot of patients and their doctors will say, he's 80 years old, he's 90 there's no point of giving him this treatment," said Dr. Adi Diab of the MD Anderson Melanoma Medical Oncology Department. "The case of President Carter put an answer to that. It's not true."
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ACS
The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released the Standards Manual for the Oncology Medical Home (OMH) Accreditation Program. The standards are established around the OMH model that provides comprehensive and continuous medical care to patients with the goal of obtaining maximized health outcomes.
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Medscape
And that may be a good way to begin addressing cancer-drug costs and their benefits, according to an essay by Robert C. Young, MD, of RCY Medicine, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that was published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. Prescription drug prices in the United States have been among the highest in the world and have evoked much discussion among physicians, the general public, professional organizations and advocacy groups. The escalating costs have spurred a number of initiatives designed to help physicians, payers and patients better understand the value of new therapies and thus make better choices about their use.
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Congress.Gov
The Breast Cancer Research Stamp Reauthorization Act of 2015 was initially started by Ernie Bodai, MD, FACS vice chair of the CoC Advocacy Committee.
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Journal of Clinical Oncology via Medical Xpress
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer might dramatically increase a man's risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a large-scale analysis of health data suggests. Men who underwent androgen deprivation therapy for their prostate cancer had nearly twice the risk of Alzheimer's, when compared to prostate cancer patients who didn't receive hormone therapy, researchers found.
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ACS
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News-Medical.Net
Ovarian cancer is a deadly disease, one that's hard to detect until it has progressed significantly. More than 75 percent of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer have metastasis at the time of diagnosis, resulting in a low five-year survival rate of less than 30 percent.
A large number of studies have shown that an increased body mass index is associated with a greater risk for ovarian cancer with worse overall survival. More than 35 percent of women in the United States are obese, putting them at increased risk for the cancer.
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CoC
The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a Quality Program of the American College of Surgeons, is launching the Oncology Medical Home (OMH) Accreditation Program. The OMH uses a team-based approach to deliver, ensure and measure quality cancer care. It's a comprehensive patient-focused system that can be designed to meet the needs of patients, payers and providers. The OMH's goal is to provide better access to care and treat patients outside of the acute care hospital setting.
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Renal & Urology News
For patients with cancer, use of herbal medicine has associated safety-related concerns, including direct toxic effects and increased chemosensitivity of cancer cells, according to a study published online in Cancer.
Eran Ben-Arye, MD, from the Lin Medical Center in Haifa, Israel, and colleagues examined the use of herbal medicine by Middle Eastern patients with cancer, using a 17-item questionnaire that was administered by oncology health care professionals. The literature was reviewed to assess potential negative effects associated with herbal products identified by the study HCPs.
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CoC
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 NCDB to learn more.
Engadget
Since your liver is surrounded by delicate blood vessels and bile ducts, cancers are tough to treat with toxic chemotherapy drugs and usually require surgery. However, researchers from the University of Illinois have pioneered a new "triple attack" treatment that kills cancer cells with a standard lymphoma chemo drug. "Nanobubbles" of it are injected into a cancer mass, then "popped" using ultrasound, releasing medicine directly into cancer cells during critical cell formation. "The probability of its undesired systemic release is minimal due to this highly selective activation mechanism, which helps to spare the healthy cells," says lead researcher Dipanjan Pan.
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Dark Daily
Anatomic pathologists and clinical laboratories may gain a tool to identify tumor heterogeneity. This would enable them to ultimately guide personalized cancer therapies if a new method for measuring genetic variability within a tumor and predicting outcomes is confirmed in future studies.
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CoC
The National Cancer Data Base (NCDB) is pleased to announce the release of the Cancer Quality Improvement Program (CQIP) 2015. The CQIP report is unique in providing not only short-term quality and outcome data, but also long-term outcome data including five-year survival rates for commonly treated malignancies stratified by stage. CQIP allows each CoC-accredited program access to a confidential and individualized report, in PowerPoint format, to allow programs the ability to modify the presentations and select topic-based slides to review in meetings as needed. CQIP is accessed through CoC Datalinks, under NCDB Reporting Tools; the CQIP Reports link will provide access to the three most recent CQIP reports, allowing programs to assess changes in their reports over time. The column named "Reporting Year" distinguishes each CQIP report.
Fox News
Most breast cancer survivors require routine mammograms and physical exams to check for new tumors, but they don't need additional imaging or lab tests unless symptoms suggest malignancies may have returned, according to new joint guidelines from two leading U.S. cancer groups.
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Medscape
The American Society for Radiation Oncology has developed a template to help standardize post-treatment care for the increasing number of cancer survivors. Although it is specific to radiation oncology, the template is designed to meet the needs of primary care providers, oncology specialists and patients.
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University of Warwick via Medical Xpress
A University of Warwick computer scientist is working with technology that could revolutionize how some cancers are diagnosed.
A high-tech computer system is able to read samples of human tissue and aid pathologists in the identification of minute changes in cells that can indicate cancer is present. More than 10,000 slides were examined in the first phase of the study which shows that pathologists are as good at accurately diagnosing cancer on a computer as they are with a microscope.
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ACS
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