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NCCN Member Institution SpotlightRead about the latest advancements in research and treatment, important news and announcements, and practical patient information and feature stories from NCCN Member Institutions. The stories can be sorted by NCCN Member Institution as well as subject matter.
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‘This is me now’: A Breast Cancer Patient’s Story About Healing and Recovery When 28-year-old Aleka Schmidt learned that a mastectomy was the only viable treatment for her Stage III breast cancer, she commissioned a pre-surgery portrait by photographer Sandie Ecker, “to preserve how I looked before the mastectomy.” The black-and-white image captures the collision of emotions in a young wife and mother, who sits with arms folded across her breasts, at once vulnerable and courageous, afraid and hopeful, steeling herself against the coming transformation with confidence in her husband’s love. Addressing Childhood Cancer A conversation with Lisa Diller, MD, Clinical Director of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston. Aggressive Infection Control Program Protects Cancer Patients From Acquiring Clinic-Based H1N1 InfluenzaSEATTLE (December 16, 2009) – Despite a 100-fold increase in H1N1 influenza cases in the Seattle area during spring 2009, an aggressive infection control program to protect immunocompromised cancer patients and thorough screening measures resulted in no corresponding increase in H1N1 cases among the total patient population at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, according to a new study by researchers and physicians at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the SCCA. Asians may wield survival advantage in gastric cancerDr. Joseph Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Surgery at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, and fellow researchers recently conducted the largest study on racial disparities in cancer of the stomach and found that Asian-Americans show significantly higher survival for gastric cancer than patients from other ethnic or racial groups. At Roswell Park Cancer Institute, a new definition of “healing arts”Studies have shown that cancer patients who participate in art activities in hospital settings report feeling less bored, sad and anxious. That’s what it’s all about, according to Margarita Coyne, RN, BSN, Director of Patient Services, who helped bring the artists to Roswell Park through the Arts in Healthcare initiative of the University at Buffalo’s Center for the Arts. Both Roswell Park and Women’s and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo are partners in the initiative. Beating the Odds of Pancreatic CancerDenny LaVercombe is beating the odds. When the Helena resident was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, doctors gave him only six months to live—a year at the most. That was four years ago. Thanks to the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, Mr. LaVercombe is a member of a rare group—only 5 percent of patients with pancreatic cancer survive five years after diagnosis. Behind the Scenes of a BreakthroughEvery new drug and treatment, every diagnostic test or procedure, every screening method and vaccine—essentially every advance in disease prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment—is the result of a clinical trial. The backbone of the fight against cancer, clinical trials are the bridge from promising research to patient care. At UAB’s Comprehensive Cancer Center, clinical studies are an integral part of the research and treatment programs for every type of cancer. Bump, Set, Spike. A volleyball player aces osteosarcomaCamille Fraser was a healthy, active 13-year-old, playing her second season of volleyball at David Lipscomb Campus School, when she began to have pain in her right knee. After initially being diagnosed with tendonitis and Osgood-Schlatter disease, common in active children, the pain persisted and in an instant, Camille’s diagnosis went from a sports injury to cancer. Thanks to limb sparing surgery at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Camille is back on the court.
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