OncoLog Volume 45, Number 02, February 2000

National Cooperation Leads to New Standard of Treatment for Cervical Cancer House Call: Stress and Cancer: What\u27s the Connection? Researchers Study Hormone Intervention Therapy to Prevent Treatment-Induced Sterility Protocols: Cervical Cancer Clinical Trials Regular Pap Smears Still Key to Preventing Cervical Cancerhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/oncolog/1082/thumbnail.jp

OncoLog Volume 45, Number 09, September 2000

Multidisciplinary Care Improves Treatment, Enhances Quality of Life for Patients with Colorectal Cancer DiaLog: Treating Cancer with a Team Approach, by David L. Callender, MD, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer Cervical Cancer Prevention: Could Spectroscopy Steal the Spot light ? Virtual Colonoscopy a Potential Screening Reality Protocols: Clinical Trials for Colorectal Cancer Compass: Clinical Practice Guidelines House Call: Sharing Personal Stories: Books Written by People with Cancerhttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/oncolog/1088/thumbnail.jp

OncoLog Volume 47, Number 11, November 2002

Diagnosis Based on Nonsurgical Biopsy: A Cooperative Effort Benign Care: Young Patients with a Variety of Noncancerous Conditions Find Treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Cognitive Interventions Are Crucial for Many Patients with Neurofibromatosis FNA Clinic Streamlines Biopsy Diagnosis of Palpable Lesions Is This Going to Hurt? , by Frank A. Morello Jr., MD, Assistant Professor, Section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology House Call: Answers to Common Questions about the Use of Radioisotopes for Diagnosishttps://openworks.mdanderson.org/oncolog/1111/thumbnail.jp

Photography, care and the visual economy of Gambian transatlantic kinship relations

This article examines transnational kinship relations between Gambian parents in the United Kingdom and their children and carers in The Gambia, with a focus on the production, exchange and reception of photographs. Many Gambian migrant parents in the U.K. take their children to The Gambia to be cared for by extended family members. Mirroring the mobility of Gambian migrants and their children, as they travel between the U.K. and The Gambia, photographs document changing family structures and relations. It is argued that domestic photography provides insight into the representational politics, values and aesthetics of Gambian transatlantic kinship relations. Further, the concept of the moral economy supports a hermeneutics of Gambian family photographic practice and develops our understanding of the visual economy of transnational kinship relations in a number of ways: it draws attention to the way in which the value attributed to a photograph is rooted in shared moral and cultural codes of care within transnational relations of inequality and power; it helps us to interpret Gambian’s responses to and treatment of family photographs; and it highlights the importance attributed to portrait photography and the staging, setting and aesthetics of photographic content within a Gambian imaginary

University of Texas / M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Newsletter

Monthly report discussing cancer care and research to inform physicians

Presepsin: A potential biomarker of PJI? A comparative analysis with known and new infection biomarkers

There is still no "gold standard" for the diagnosis and prognosis of post-operative periprosthetic joint infection (PJI). Among serum biomarkers, an emerging molecule is presepsin, the soluble fraction of CD14, recently described in other settings as a powerful diagnostic tool to detect sepsis at different degrees of severity. The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic and prognostic value of presepsin in PJI. A total of 30 patients with PJI and 30 patients without PJI were enrolled. Presepsin, C-reactive protein (CRP), serum interleukin (IL)-6, triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1), CCL2, matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9), CD163, osteopontin (OPN), and toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) were measured at different times after surgery. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and area under the curve (AUC) were analyzed for each biomarker. Presepsin showed greater diagnostic value than CRP and IL-6; CD163, TREM-1, and MMP-9 had very low diagnostic potential. Presepsin, OPN, CCL2, suPAR, and TLR2 all decreased significantly with increasing time of recovery after surgery in PJI patients. Presepsin can be considered a useful tool for the diagnosis and clinical monitoring of PJI and can be backed by a panel of new inflammatory markers involved in monocyte-/macrophage-mediated inflammatory responses, such as OPN, CCL2, TLR2, and suPAR

Desmoplastic small round cell tumour in a 74 year old man: an uncommon cause of ascites (case report)

A rare case is provided of a 74 year old man who presented with ascites of unknown etiology. CT scan of the abdomen revealed extensive omental caking, and omental biopsy cytogenetics showed findings in keeping with a diagnosis of desmoplastic small round cell tumour (DSRCT). This case is unique in that it involves a significantly older patient, negative WT1 immunohistochemical staining, and negative cytology. Despite repeated paracenteses and fluid management, the patient died in hospital secondary to renal complications

Jean Briggs's Never in Anger as an Ethnography of Experience

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/66542/2/10.1177_0308275X9301300406.pd