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4th Annual Multidisciplinary Interactive Thoracic Oncology Conference (MITOC)

April 10, 2008 - 9:27 pm

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Tomorrow we start our fourth MITOC program, a meeting here on the Seattle waterfront that brings together a group of national experts in pulmonology, surgery, radiation oncology, and medical oncology to discuss new information and options for managing the tough real-life lung cancer cases that don’t have a […]

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Perceptions of Chemo: As Bad As Feared?

April 6, 2008 - 2:12 pm

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) is the oldest survivor-led advocacy group, and they recently released some highlights of their study on perceptions of chemotherapy vs. the experience of patients who actually underwent chemotherapy for a cancer in the last few years. Because several membes have raised questions of whether […]

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Tribute to Judah Folkman, Father of Angiogenesis

January 22, 2008 - 11:55 pm

Although we’ve had sad string of bad news on the forums from many of the users recently, I need to add a link to an obituary as part of a tribute to Judah Folkman, who died this past week of a heart attack at age 74 (obituary here). He was […]

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Cancer Death Rates Declining: Lung Cancer Among Leaders in the Drop

October 19, 2007 - 5:57 pm

This week, the American Cancer Society announced the results from a report on cancer death rates in the US. In past years, this has been a source of some good news, as the annual reports have shown the overall death rates to be declining for cancer overall since 1993, at a little […]

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Guest Book Function

June 26, 2007 - 5:47 pm

Today we’ve added a guest book function, designed so that people can leave their impressions about OncTalk. The page is reached by pressing on the Guest Book link at the bottom of the list in the column on the left, or through this link
Why have this? Since starting the […]

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Greetings from ASCO 2007!

June 1, 2007 - 9:10 pm

I just arrived today at the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, the largest cancer conference of the year, in Chicago this time. There are something in the range of 25,000 - 30,000 people who attend from all over the world, and a lot of the blockbuster results that change […]

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Screening for Breast Cancer vs. Lung Cancer

March 28, 2007 - 9:41 am

The American Cancer Society has just recommended that breast MRIs be performed in addition to mammograms in women who are estimated to have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of 25%, primarily those women with a signfiicant family history of breast cancer. The evidence on breast MRI indicates that this technique […]

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