ASCO Highlights

Posted by rob on July 1, 2006 under Uncategorized | Be the First to Comment

  • Cancer Advances: ASCO’s Annual Meeting. Learn more about the cancer research highlights from ASCO’s 2006 meeting this month and what they mean for patients.
  • Ask the ASCO Expert Transcript: Top Advances in Cancer Research. Dr. Roy Herbst, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, answers PLWC readers’ questions about cancer research and treatment news from ASCO’s Annual Meeting.
  • Cancer-Related Syndromes. Detailed information on 19 cancer-related syndromes is now available in PLWC’s Cancer Types section, including Familial Adenomatous Polyposis, Von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome, and Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer Syndrome. Information on more syndromes will be added soon.
  • Managing Side Effects. PLWC’s
    Managing Side Effects section covers 40+ of the most common treatment side effects, including five new topics: Bleeding and Clotting Problems, Edema, Headaches, Hand-Foot Syndrome, and Skin Reactions to Targeted Therapies.

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  • Craniopharyngioma. Information is now available on PLWC about this benign tumor that accounts for about 10% of all childhood intracranial tumors.

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    "Ask the ASCO Expert" Series, July 2006: Readers\’ questions are now being accepted for PLWC\’s two-part Q&A session this month on age-related learning about cancer.
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    Managing Side Effects section covers 40+ of the most common treatment side effects, including five new topics: Bleeding and Clotting Problems, Edema, Headaches, Hand-Foot Syndrome, and Skin Reactions to Targeted Therapies.

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