ASCO 2007: What remains important for breast cancer systemic therapy in the routine setting?

The 43rd ASCO Annual Meeting took place from June 1-5, 2007 at McCormick Place in Chicago, IL, USA. This year's meeting had the special theme of `Translating Research into Practice', particularly featuring 445 abstracts on translational research in addition to approximately 2,000 abstracts presented on subjects like surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, endocrine therapy, and targeted therapies. This short summary will focus on the two important breast cancer oral presentation sessions only, and will try to comment on the presented data with regard to their immediate impact on clinical practice. Many more research results regarding breast cancer were presented (all presentations will be available to the public from September 1, 2007 at wwwasco.org). In general, breast cancer data presented at this year's ASCO Annual Meeting confirmed current standards, and introduced promising new substances which may soon enter clinical practice. The 44th ASCO Annual Meeting will again be held in Chicago from May 30 to June 3, 2008. Those who do not want to wait another year may visit ASCO's first special Breast Cancer Symposium taking place September 7-8, 2007 in San Francisco, CA, USA. Whether this meeting will start a new tradition of a specialized ASCO breast cancer symposium, and how this development will eventually will impact on the regular San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium in December, only time will tell

Message From the President of the Homer L.J. Carter Reading Council

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Message From the President of the Homer L.J. Reading Council

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Interview with Robert Harbeck

This interview was conducted for the as part of the 20th Anniversary of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks on the United States. This effort was to produce a history of the university’s, as well as the community’s, response in the days and weeks following the attacks. A key aspect of the project was a series of audio-taped interviews conducted with various members of the Rock Hill and Winthrop communities who felt their stories needed to be shared. This interview is of Mr. Robert Harbeck, who lived and worked in New York, NY, forty blocks away from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. In this interview with Andrew Russell, Robert Harbeck discusses his thoughts and memories of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Mr. Harbeck describes his experience as a resident of New York and how the city and country responded to the events.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/oralhistoryprogram/1540/thumbnail.jp

The feasibility of dialogue writing with patients who have an eating disorder

This study emerged from the creation of dialogue writing, a new intervention for the treatment of eating disorders. A nascent intervention, the study investigated its feasibility as a form of treatment for eating disorders; specifically the study gathered data regarding the participant\u27s experience with dialogue writing. The dialogue writing process involves writing a dialogue between the self and the eating disorder as personified in a character created by the participant. Nine women receiving treatment for eating disorders at a clinic participated in a group setting in the dialogue writing exercise, which was administered by the groups\u27 regular facilitator. Although the exercise was presented in a group setting, the process was completed individually. After the exercise, the women completed a questionnaire with open ended questions regarding the ease or difficulty of following the instructions, their experience during the exercise and the effect, if any, it had on their relationship to their eating disorder. The findings of the research indicate the need for some alterations to the verbal instructions. Additionally, the intervention\u27s ability to aid the participant in externalizing their eating disorder became evident. Issues of power and control in participants\u27 relationships to their eating disorders emerged, as well as contradictions inherent in thought processes. Emotional responses were primarily mixed and varied for each client. The study also showed the effectiveness of the intervention in engaging participants in their own process regardless of their stage in treatment