Beyond The C Jackson Tennessee Cancer Conference

Beyond the C

August 13, 2011    •    Register now!

Conference Center at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital

Beyond the "C" is this area's first survivorship conference being held to promote cancer survivorship. Survivors and their caregivers are invited to this day of information and celebration. If you've been diagnosed with cancer, if you are in the midst of your cancer treatment, or if you've completed your cancer treatment in the past week, month, or years ago, you have joined a special group of almost 12 million other Americans who are living with cancer. Statistics tell us that in the next three to five years we will have more than 20,000 cancer survivors in our rural West Tennessee area.

Kirkland Cancer Center invites any cancer surivor or caregiver to this conference especially about journey of surviving beyond the "C." A positive journey awaits and along the way, enjoy this ports of call:

• Nutrition
• Fitness
• Hope
• Relationships
• and much more.

A full agenda is planned for this fun event. Free parking is available. The day will open with Dr. Brion Randolph, medical oncologist with the Jackson Clinic. Then there will be numerous breakout sessions all designed to address various topics.

For a registration brochure, please click here.

Breakfast, lunch, snacks, goodies, fun, and door prizes are all included. A $10 fee is required. Please call 1-877-831-4165 or 731-541-5087 for more information or e-mail kirklandcancercenter@wth.org.

We thank our sponsors. Without the help of those listed below, we could not provide this community event:

• Gold Sponsor: The Jackson Clinic
• Silver Sponsor: The West Tennessee Healthcare Foundation/Bill Ramsey Fund
• Bronze Sponsor: Thomas Media
• Supporter: Allegra Print and Imaging; Geiger

http://www.aquatherapies.com/body_cancer.cfm?id=3132

Nearly All Patients With High-Grade Bladder Cancer Do Not Receive Guideline-Recommended Care, Study Finds

ScienceDaily (July 11, 2011) — A study at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that nearly all patients with high-grade, non-invasive bladder cancer are not receiving the guideline-recommended care that would best protect them from recurrence, a finding that researchers characterized as alarming.

In fact, out of the 4,545 bladder cancer patients included in the study, only one received the comprehensive care recommended by the American Urology Association and the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Receiving the recommended comprehensive care for high-grade bladder cancer is critical because it can significantly minimize the likelihood that patients will die from their cancer, said Dr. Karim Chamie, a postdoctoral fellow in urologic oncology and health services research and lead author of the study.

Read full story here http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110711081417.htm

John Hopkins University School of Medicine develops new brain cancer treatment

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have developed a technique that delivers gene therapy into human brain cancer cells using nanoparticles that can be freeze-dried and stored for up to three months prior to use.

The shelf-stable particles may obviate the need for virus-mediated gene therapy, which has been associated with safety concerns. The report appears in the August issue of Biomaterials.
"Most nonviral gene therapy methods have very low efficacy," says Jordan Green, Ph.D., an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins. "Nanoparticle-based gene therapy has the potential to be both safer and more effective than conventional chemical therapies for the treatment of cancer."

read full press release here  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/just_add_water_and_treat_brain_cancer

Clinical Trials

Clinical Trials are always a difficult decision when it comes to cancer treatment options.


http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/search This link allows you to search the database for current and future studies.


http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/info/understand This link gives basic information about clinical trials.

At no time should you feel pressured into participation in a study.  You should be allowed to take study documents home in order to discuss with people you know and trust.

FDA Rejects Avastin for Breast Cancer Treatment

http://news.yahoo.com/roche-seeks-more-time-avastin-breast-cancer-143822138.html

Other Cancer Chats

After doing a search for other cancer chats I found several that had been abandoned. The random user would post a message that would hang ignored in cyber space. I'm hoping www.cancercafe.org will bring these floating people together, to allow them a space where they can chat about their cancer experiences, to hear of other positive experiences, to laugh and fight together.

Coping Tips for Caregivers

http://inhealth.cnn.com/copd/coping-tips-for-caregivers?did=t1_rss1&hpt=hp_bn11

Great article on CNN for caregivers. This specifies for those caring for someone with COPD but its really true for all caregivers.

Too many times caregivers run themselves into the ground and are then unable to care for their loved ones in the ways in which they need.

Remember to make some you time, it will help everyone in the long run!