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Audio: Conquest spring 2012
Conquest - Spring 2012
The audio version of the spring 2012 issue of Conquest is generously donated by Sight Into Sound (formerly Taping for the Blind). The narrator is Darrell K. Simmons.
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Complete issue
Spring 2012
This issue highlights anesthesiology's role in the OR, easing the cancer burden for underserved patients, development of cancer screening guidelines, a personalized approach to meeting cancer patients' nutritional needs and much more.
Features
Anesthesia team focuses on the patient
MD Anderson's anesthesiology team evaluate, prepare and monitor every surgical patient, help with special procedures, conduct research and emphasize continued education.
Cultivating a new field
Anesthesiology technologists step up to enhance their contributions in MD Anderson's Operating Rooms.
The privilege is in the service
Since 1995, MD Anderson faculty and fellows have provided innovative and multidisciplinary cancer care for thousands of patients at Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital at no expense to Harris County.
Behind the scenes: A closer look at cancer screening guidelines
If the release of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations on screening has taught us anything, it's that not all cancer screening guidelines are created equal.
Clinical nutrition: The personalized approach
Nutrition is an essential part of every cancer patient's care — from specialized dietitians to hotel-style room service for inpatients.
Picture This: Center for Targeted Therapy
As MD Anderson accelerates the delivery of new cancer drug therapies from concept to patients in the clinic, the Center for Targeted Therapy is playing a critical role.
Moving Forward: Connection becomes a circle of comfort
Three bladder cancer patients, matched by Anderson Network's Telephone Support Line, call on each other for support.
Signs of Hope: Voice Center
Doctors and staff in MD Anderson's Voice Center are working to restore voice to patients who have lost the ability to produce sound because of cancer or its treatments.
Frontline
Institute gears up to develop better drugs faster
As leaders of MD Anderson's new Institute for Applied Cancer Science, Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D., and Lynda Chin, M.D., have built a team of veteran scientists to swiftly and thoroughly evaluate cancer drug target candidates and ruthlessly select likely winners.
Drug that starves fat cells works for obese monkeys
Obese Rhesus monkeys treated with an experimental drug that starves fat cells by destroying their blood supply lost, on average, 11% of their body weight in four weeks.
New drug controls CLL in clinical trials
A promising oral drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia has produced durable remissions for patients in clinical trials without triggering a debilitating side effect that's common with existing treatments.
Vorinostat enhances treatment for AML
Adding a drug that activates genes to frontline combination therapy for acute myeloid leukemia resulted in an 85% remission rate after initial treatment.
Guidance for myelodysplastic syndromes
A large-scale analysis of patients whose myelodysplastic syndrome is related to earlier cancer treatment overturns the notion that all of them have a poor prognosis.
Study questions popular radiation choice for breast cancer
An increasingly popular treatment choice for women with early-stage breast cancer may not be the answer for everyone.
New combination improves survival for metastatic breast cancer patients
In an international Phase III randomized study know as BOLERO-2, everolimus combined with the hormonal therapy exemestane has dramatically improved progression-free survival for women with metastatic breast cancer.
Cancer Briefings
Tribute to MD Anderson's third full-time president
A major building on MD Anderson's campus now bears the name of John Mendelsohn, M.D., to honor his 15-year leadership of the nation's largest cancer center.
A 15-minute investment in a longer life
Taiwanese who exercised for 15 minutes a day, or 92 minutes per week, extended their expected lifespan by three years compared to people who were inactive, according to a recent finding.
Conquest: Spring 2012
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