Greetings from the NCI Cancer Bulletin Team

August 21, 2012 Dear NCI Cancer Bulletin Subscribers, The editors, writers, advisors, and technical staff of the NCI Cancer Bulletin would like to thank each of you for your continued interest in our newsletter. As you may know, we will not publish an issue today due to our summer production break, but we will resume biweekly publication on September 4. In the meantime, we would like to share some of our favorite and most popular feature stories published so far this year in the NCI Cancer Bulletin: Long-Term Trial Results Show No Mortality Benefit from Annual Prostate Cancer Screening (January 10) More than a Game: Super Bowl Initiative Helps Scientists Study the "Normal" Breast (January 24) First-in-Humans Study of New Immunotherapy Agent (January 24) Staying Alive: New Technique Grows Normal and Cancer Cells Rapidly (January 24) Connecting the Dots: Network Analysis Helps Public Health Researchers Get the Big Picture (February 7) A Conversation with The Who’s Roger Daltrey about Teen Cancer Centers (March 6) Mapping the Evolution of Cancer Cells in Leukemia (March 20) Leading Health Organizations Revise Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines (March 20) A Conversation with Dr. Thomas Smith on the Growing Role of Palliative Care for Patients with Cancer (March 20) Drugs Target Epigenetic Changes to Reprogram Cancer Cells (April 3) Unearthing Clues to Cancer Risk in the Aging Genome (May 15) Complex Immune-Based Cancer Treatment Shows Signs of Progress (May 15) Crunching Numbers: What Cancer Screening Statistics Really Tell Us (May 1) A Tough Transition: Cancer Survivorship Plans Slow to Take Hold (June 26) To Eat or Not to Eat: With Cancer Therapies, That Is the Question (July 10) As Patient Navigation Expands and Evolves, Nurses Assume Many Roles  (July 24) Using New Approach, Scientists Find Evidence for Cancer Stem Cells (August 7) In addition to these feature articles, you can access related NCI Cancer Bulletin videos and other NCI-produced multimedia through our YouTube site.  Thank you again for your interest and support. We hope you’ll continue to read each issue and encourage others to subscribe by submitting their e-mail address in the toolbox at the top right-hand corner of any issue. And, as always, we appreciate your story ideas and feedback. Send your suggestions and comments to us by e-mail at ncicancerbulletin@mail.nih.gov. Best regards, The NCI Cancer Bulletin Team Do you know someone who would enjoy receiving the NCI Cancer Bulletin? To send a copy of the latest issue to a colleague, visit www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin. The NCI Cancer Bulletin will be sent to you biweekly unless you unsubscribe. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to nci-bulletin-signoff-request@list.nih.gov.

 

 

NCI Cancer Bulletin for August 7, 2012

August 7, 2012 • Volume 9 / Number 16 Read the NCI Cancer Bulletin The latest issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin is now available at http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin. Keep up to date on the latest research and advances in the prevention, treatment, and understanding of cancer. News Read This Issue Featured Article: Using New Approach, Scientists Find Evidence for Cancer Stem Cells » Trial Suggests New Treatment Option for Some Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer » U.S. Prostate Cancer Incidence Falls after Change in Screening Recommendations » Single HPV Test Predicts the Risk of Cervical Cancer for 18 Years » Discovery of Fused Genes in Brain Cancer Points to Possible Treatments » Commentary Read This Issue A Conversation with Dr. Walter Willett about Diet and Cancer » In Depth Read This Issue Featured Clinical Trial: Genetically Engineered Immunotherapy for Advanced Cancer » Bringing Science to Cancer Survivors: Workshop Series Reaches a Milestone » Updates Read This Issue FDA Update » CDC Update » Cancer.gov Update » Notes »   Do you know someone who would enjoy receiving the NCI Cancer Bulletin? To send a copy of the latest issue to a colleague, visit www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin. The NCI Cancer Bulletin will be sent to you biweekly unless you unsubscribe. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to nci-bulletin-signoff-request@list.nih.gov.