tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48975240488425355612024-03-15T04:23:22.644+13:00Head and Neck NetworkThe Head and Neck Network is the official blog site of the Head and Neck Cancer Survivors' Support Network. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08762626823172820981noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-49384807548155065062016-10-28T12:43:00.001+13:002016-10-30T20:59:25.893+13:00We have moved....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We have moved house... you can now find us here. ... <a href="http://www.headandneck.network/">www.headandneck.network</a>HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-25315985110911271732016-10-27T10:32:00.000+13:002016-10-28T12:41:33.652+13:00Fundraising Success! New Website Live!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="text-decoration: inherit;">This is a very exciting day for us. The beginning of a new phase for head and neck cancer people in New Zealand. We welcome you to our new site. </span><a href="http://www.headandneck.network/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.headandneck.network</a></div>
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Please become a member, just <a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/?xgi=KEoyC6pEhA0AF8" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">click this link</a> to follow through and join up. As a member you will be able to see and participate in much more than the public. </div>
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You can j<a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/regional-groups" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">oin</a><a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/regional-groups" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/regional-groups" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/regional-groups" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/regional-groups" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">a regional group here.</a> You will be able to contact and discuss with people in similar situations to yourself in your area.</div>
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It does not matter what stage of treatment you are, we have a discussion forum for before, during and after treatment. <a href="http://headnecknetwork.ning.com/forum" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Just click here to join in.</a></div>
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We will be posting more resources, news and events over the coming week. We hope you enjoy the content and provide us with plenty of feedback.</div>
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Our old website will be slowly decommissioned. Our Facebook Support Group will continue. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1116515895074395/permalink/1218818468177470/?comment_id=1219711201421530&notif_t=group_comment_reply&notif_id=1477446581940829" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Head and Neck Cancer Support</a> You can link up with us on Twitter @headnecknz or LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/head-and-neck-cancer-network-483914126?trk=hp-identity-photo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Click here.</a> We have an open Facebook page which you can <a href="https://www.facebook.com/headandnecknetworknz/?fref=ts" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #10069f; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">view here</a>. </div>
HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com2New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-71806237815333646782016-10-26T06:00:00.000+13:002016-10-26T06:00:12.620+13:00Weekly Wednesday 26 October 2016<h1 dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08762626823172820981noreply@blogger.com6New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-80357384764661456422016-10-25T11:52:00.000+13:002016-10-25T11:52:03.294+13:00An update on our progress....<iframe frameborder="0" height="200" seamless="seamless" src="https://widget.givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz/light-starbuck" width="650"></iframe><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">We are so thankful to the people who have donated funds for our new interactive website. Thank you so much! We are 42% of the way there and time is running out. We have until Thursday at 11am to make the total. So please make a donation, and please send out our link on your Facebook page to encourage others to donate. If you have family and friends, they may like the opportunity to contribute to a nationwide Network, that connects, support and advocates for head and neck cancer people, their care givers and families. </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgivealittle.co.nz%2Fpledge%2Fproject%2Fheadnecknz&h=RAQEwm1qcAQGGORjFZ7CXipya-amSaP1iR4eQeum6OOurtg&enc=AZNMzop_WH_Clkxi2fruyeShZUt2FYHM4-SSfxD4Ne5Ql7zF9oj4oy_68Tn8KjTdfr3GKVaQtN_pzx6SpJNuZyrtvi-kepo7IMtSLF14C6rsuA84WISRLFE7pU8zRrYR9LTz1vfTgbKSZRUQMyt9_EC5RKJ_Xdaq8mPtHJrz2zNdly_sKnuRuA6nsqCTCnsBt-4&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">https://givealittle.co.nz/pledge/project/headnecknz</a>HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-71734803292249412412016-10-25T08:11:00.002+13:002016-10-25T08:12:25.557+13:00Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon's conference in Auckland today.We'd like to welcome all the head and neck cancer professionals to Auckland.<br />
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Please help us raise money for a new online community for head and neck cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones.<br />
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We are now at $1000. Another $1500 worth of pledges and we will have enough to run our website for three years. When we become a registered charity in the not too distant future, we will be able to attract bigger, tax deductible donations.<br />
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At this start up stage, we are relying on our good friend, Givealiitle.<br />
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Paying for the website month by month, we have it all ready to go but we would like to have a measure of financial security.<br />
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Release date, the great unveiling? Tonight or tomorrow. We will let you know.<br />
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MaureenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-59296636188039795472016-10-24T10:04:00.003+13:002016-10-24T10:04:22.368+13:00Woohoo! $987. I feel confident that we'll reach our target when all the head and neck people converge on Auckland for the surgeon's conference.<br />
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To pledge any small or larger amount that you can afford, see the link below. Remember, it is for a website that will be part of the <b>first ever online head and neck cancer community in New Zealand</b>. Is there one in Australia? I don't think so. There are Facebook groups but a comprehensive website ... I'm not so sure.<br />
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Very excited about providing this service and hope we can meet people's needs. A really good website incurs some cost however, so we hope people can help us in any way they can.<br />
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MaureenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-51561866448943268262016-10-24T10:04:00.000+13:002016-10-24T11:13:48.241+13:00Labour Day... and we are tracking nicely...<iframe frameborder="0" height="200" seamless="seamless" src="https://widget.givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz/light-starbuck" width="650"></iframe>HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-55020041336317509122016-10-23T10:00:00.000+13:002016-10-23T16:31:45.614+13:00Sunday and we are getting there....Hello, people. Thank you for all the pledges. We are now up to $917.00. This is more than a third of the way to our target of $2500.<br />
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We now have a lot of information on the website. Information about head and neck cancer, all past newsletters going back to September 2014, and six regional divisions in case people want to make links in their own communities.<br />
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The Website will be online very soon!HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-21801428576033639362016-10-22T06:30:00.000+13:002016-10-22T06:30:36.078+13:00Update on our progress<iframe height="200" width="650" src="https://widget.givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz/light-starbuck" frameborder="0" seamless="seamless"></iframe>HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-48103267178089449422016-10-21T06:30:00.000+13:002016-10-21T06:30:20.173+13:00Our progress....<iframe height="200" width="650" src="https://widget.givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz/light-starbuck" frameborder="0" seamless="seamless"></iframe>HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-84024428308598032442016-10-20T09:35:00.000+13:002016-10-20T18:20:01.406+13:00Help us build a nationwide community for Head and Neck Cancer people.<iframe frameborder="0" height="200" seamless="seamless" src="https://widget.givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz/light-starbuck" width="650"></iframe>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ireland asked to attend WHO meeting over low uptake of HPV vaccine</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Uptake in vaccine to prevent cervical cancer low ‘due to huge impact of lobby groups’ </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ireland has been asked by the </span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=World%20Health%20Organisation&article=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">World Health Organisation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (WHO) to participate in a meeting over concerns regarding the State’s low uptake of the </span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=HPV&article=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HPV</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> vaccine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The meeting will also discuss the even lower uptake of the vaccine in Denmark, along with ways of increasing public acceptance of it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=HSE%E2%80%99s%20National%20Immunisation%20Office&article=true" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HSE’s (Health Service Executive-Ireland) National Immunisation Office</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> launched a HPV vaccination campaign in 2010, with the initial target group being young girls aged 12 to 13 years. Since then about 220,000 girls have been vaccinated. An initial shot is given followed by a second about six months later. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Vaccination rates peaked at 87 per cent in 2014-15, but rates have fallen since due to negative campaigning by lobby groups who claim the vaccine causes significant side effects, says the head of the immunisation office, Dr Brenda Corcoran.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a fall in vaccine numbers of about 5,000 last year compared to the previous year.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “The rates of head and neck cancers in men is expected to overtake cervical cancer by 2020,” Dr Corcoran said. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full Story:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ireland-asked-to-attend-who-meeting-over-low-uptake-of-hpv-vaccine-1.2820866" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/ireland-asked-to-attend-who-meeting-over-low-uptake-of-hpv-vaccine-1.2820866</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Boys should also get the HPV vaccine to protect themselves from oral and genital cancers </span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer in women, is also responsible for many cancers in men. It causes most cancers of the tonsils (known as oropharyngeal cancers), which are more common in men than women. HPV is also to blame for cancers of the anus, vulva, vagina and penis. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oral cancers – which include those of the tonsils, mouth and tongue – affect more than 300,000 people globally each year. A person living in Australia has a one in 49 estimated risk of </span><a href="https://head-neck-cancer.canceraustralia.gov.au/statistics" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">being diagnosed with head and neck cancer</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by their 85th birthday, which includes oral cancers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chance is higher in males (one in 32) than females (one in 98)..</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The best way to prevent these cancers is to get the HPV vaccine, which is available for free under </span><a href="http://www.hpvvaccine.org.au/the-hpv-vaccine/how-when-where-vaccine-given.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Australia’s National HPV Vaccination Program</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to boys and girls aged 12 and 13. Those over 14 can obtain the vaccine from their GP or local immunisation provider, but they will need to pay for it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most of us (</span><a href="http://www.hpv.com.au/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">around 80%</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) will acquire an infection from a virus in the human papillomavirus family at some point in our lives – usually without knowing it, as there are often no symptoms. HPV infections </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25392180" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are transmitted through vaginal and oral sex</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and even kissing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">HPV is a group of viruses </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/174077" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">first identified in the mid-1970s</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. There are </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23683837" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">now more than 170 known types</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which </span><a href="http://cmr.asm.org/content/16/1/1.short" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">can infect</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the skin and live in the genital tract and on the lining inside our mouth. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The HPV vaccine was developed by </span><a href="https://home.cancerresearch/10th-anniversary-of-worlds-first-hpv-vaccine/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1NNE1UazJaak5tWmpGbSIsInQiOiIrRjJ3TlZmUFBZQUFuK0lvZWN2bExkWjFcL3hJSzFIRHhoOWJ5dHVUVm1rZmZcL3A3SlZjZ1RxWml6SlphMWdHV0J3RHBraTc0TUVlV05wMXNTRmlyNnROUm1NVXI4RUltUUs0VFp2R2VBQVhRPSJ9?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1NNE1UazJaak5tWmpGbSIsInQiOiIrRjJ3TlZmUFBZQUFuK0lvZWN2bExkWjFcL3hJSzFIRHhoOWJ5dHVUVm1rZmZcL3A3SlZjZ1RxWml6SlphMWdHV0J3RHBraTc0TUVlV05wMXNTRmlyNnROUm1NVXI4RUltUUs0VFp2R2VBQVhRPSJ9" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Australian scientists</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in 2006 to protect women from cervical cancer. In 2007, Australia was one of the first countries to implement a secondary high school HPV vaccination program for girls, which was then extended to include boys in 2013. </span></div>
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<a href="http://theconversation.com/boys-should-also-get-the-hpv-vaccine-to-protect-themselves-from-oral-and-genital-cancers-58772" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://theconversation.com/boys-should-also-get-the-hpv-vaccine-to-protect-themselves-from-oral-and-genital-cancers-58772</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Study questions rise of head and neck cancers in the UK</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the first study of its kind researchers from the University of Liverpool's Institute of Translational Medicine have examined the possible reasons for the rapid increase in incidence of particular head and neck cancers in the UK. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A rising incidence of Oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (OPSCC), a type Head and Neck cancer arising in the tonsils, base of tongue and </span><a href="http://medicalxpress.com/tags/soft+palate/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">soft palate</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, has occurred throughout the developed world, and has frequently been attributed to an increasing impact of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The researchers found that the doubling in incidence of oropharyngeal </span><a href="http://medicalxpress.com/tags/squamous+cell+carcinoma/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #37728a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">squamous cell carcinoma</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the United Kingdom from 2002 to 2011 was not solely attributable to a rise in incidence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-positive disease.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study clearly demonstrated that the incidence of HPV-negative OPSCC was climbing as quickly as that of HPV-positive disease.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Andrew Schache, Clinical Senior Lecturer in Head & Neck Surgery and first author of the study, said: "The results of this study are in stark contrast to the previously held understanding, that rapid and dramatic changes in Oropharyngeal cancer incidence, witnessed in the UK (and other developed nations) over the last three decades, have been exclusively an HPV-driven phenomenon.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This study draws attention to the need for further research capable of guiding the implementation of appropriate prevention strategies for both types of disease. Whilst the results lend further weight to calls for the UK to adopt a gender-neutral HPV vaccination policy, critically, we also need to better understand the reasons or risk behaviours lying behind rising HPV-negative oropharyngeal cancer." </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Reuters Health) - Tracheoesophageal voice prosthetic devices often last less than three months before they need to be replaced, which is a shorter lifespan than previously reported, according to a new study.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The silicone devices are placed in the shared wall between the trachea and the esophagus after a laryngectomy, the removal of the voice box due to cancer, injury or radiation damage.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That the voice prostheses don’t last as long as they once did is “unfortunate, but not surprising when one considers the significant effects from the intensification of our cancer treatment regimens on our patients’ bodies,” Lewin said</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08762626823172820981noreply@blogger.com9New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-28266027683612183922016-10-16T18:40:00.001+13:002016-10-23T20:06:08.521+13:00The new website makes great progress<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH31KBJgYtFUA-96FUUiJM-aCl1OXbUkxcM2mS1RpiTzSCVxfh1OSpKpGMWwdQSbpe58rvF6kXysVeFjVHgbBX7u40Pkc9hUaMlKz4XdL3st4zu6kNz3T_BN4R44FUjDsGPK7oNBErMpU/s1600/Screenshot+2016-10-16+18.35.29.png" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH31KBJgYtFUA-96FUUiJM-aCl1OXbUkxcM2mS1RpiTzSCVxfh1OSpKpGMWwdQSbpe58rvF6kXysVeFjVHgbBX7u40Pkc9hUaMlKz4XdL3st4zu6kNz3T_BN4R44FUjDsGPK7oNBErMpU/s320/Screenshot+2016-10-16+18.35.29.png" width="320" /></a><br />
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<br />HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-17895974063406945042016-10-12T11:09:00.001+13:002016-10-12T11:10:22.684+13:00Weekly Wednesday 2<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 5pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is probably the last thing on the mind of cancer patients and survivors, but cancer treatment and drug development <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b9f79a05-eed8-4912-b740-9cc33b602950" id="84044285-7911-442c-9961-5dd929153ac0">is promoted</gs> as a great investment opportunity. I guess we all know how expensive treatment is but seeing that set out in an economic profit and investment scenario gives a whole new perspective.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That article is the last in this list with a couple of hopeful developments on the treatment side to start with and one on cannabis use, given that the subject has made a few recent headlines in this country. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="96d966e6-9c5c-45d7-9203-faa72e0dabd8" id="32509844-ec77-4f25-adb9-0785861eb8ca">Scan</gs> can tell if chemotherapy is effective after one round of treatment</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Head and neck cancers are notoriously difficult to treat, but researchers say a new scanning technique could help determine whether chemotherapy is effective after just one round of treatment.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Combined PET and CT scans accurately measure a tumor's energy use and ability to convert glucose to energy, offering doctors a faster method of measuring treatment response for head and neck cancers, researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research report in a study </span><a href="http://jnm.snmjournals.org/content/early/2016/07/11/jnumed.116.174433" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">published in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Classifying participants as either responders or non-responders, the researchers found that if a tumor's energy use score fell by more than 55 percent or its glucose score dropped by more than 60 percent, the patients were more likely to respond well to treatment.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Our work suggests that high-tech PET/CT scans can spot patients whose treatment might not work very rapidly, after only one cycle of chemotherapy," says Kevin Harrington, joint head of the division of radiotherapy and imaging at the Institute of Cancer Research Harrington. "That gives patients and clinicians either the confidence to persist with treatment, or early warning that it isn't working so that it can be urgently switched for an alternative approach." #</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newer Radiation Technique Has Fewer Side Effects Than Traditional </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When a patient’s cancer comes back, he or she is often left with limited treatment options and higher odds of debilitating side effects. But a University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) study offers positive news for people with recurrent head and neck cancer. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), a technique for delivering pinpoint radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors, resulted in only half as many patients with recurrent head and neck cancer suffering severe, long-term side effects as compared to previously reported studies using more traditional treatment techniques</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This discovery by UPCI scientists was made in the largest and longest follow-up analysis to date of patients with recurrent head and neck cancer treated with SBRT. The findings make SBRT a more attractive possibility for patients with few options left.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4e4e4e; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We’re hoping that data like this will help physicians and patients understand and weigh their individual risks and benefits when deciding whether to pursue SBRT,” says Diane Ling, M.D., a resident in in UPCI’s Radiation Oncology Residency Program. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FRANKFORT — A radiation oncologist says his experiences watching a cancer patient ultimately lose her battle with the illness while also defending herself against charges of growing marijuana caused his perspective on medical cannabis to change completely.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Don Stacy says the woman, a 25-year-old female, had developed head and neck cancer.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And after various prescriptions did nothing to help her cope with <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="cc4b2f56-d1b3-45e5-8591-e469465e0ccf" id="4a561788-99ed-40a4-be7c-5f76e42a7a2f">complications</gs> of her chemotherapy and radiation treatment, she found relief in marijuana.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The woman, eventually began growing marijuana <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="084eac16-27cd-4989-8b94-997fe404cd82" id="838b5a20-7ba0-401f-9744-ee9e929a9f6a">at</gs> her home “She was arrested, her child was taken away from her, and she ended up dying of her cancer.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stacy says the woman isn’t the only patient who has informed him of marijuana use, adding that the patients say it is “highly effective at minimizing their symptoms” that can include nausea and pain.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Medical marijuana is legal in 25 states and the District of Columbia, and the issue has shown marginal progress in recent legislative sessions.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But lawmakers indicated that they’ll need to see more before signing onto a bill legalizing pot for medical use. # </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The global cancer immunotherapy market is set to reach $19.39 billion by 2021 growing at a CAGR of 14% (</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is the </span><a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mean.asp" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #318da8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">mean</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; 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font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">growth rate</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of an investment over a specified period of time longer than one year.<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="05f265d0-a720-40d5-9456-124895ddbc88" id="1dcd9258-1d38-4951-a7b7-15def94f8133">)</gs></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">led by monoclonal antibodies forecast to show highest growth rate while increasing incidence of cancer, rising healthcare expenditure, and increased access to medical insurance in developed countries are <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="05f265d0-a720-40d5-9456-124895ddbc88" id="2da47dc1-84dd-4ba3-94ac-e19b71538677">major driving factors</gs>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The complete report on <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5f1363a1-6d76-4724-9315-23fc66f296df" id="9a6b42a6-ff79-43b5-a4b0-42051ee27492">global cancer immunotherapy market</gs> spread across 145 pages, profiling 10 companies and supported <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5f1363a1-6d76-4724-9315-23fc66f296df" id="03270b20-763d-4f02-bbef-9e8d1b4c73cb">with</gs> 43 tables and 69 figures is now available at </span><a href="http://www.marketreportshub.com/cancer-immunotherapy-industry-research-marketsandmarkets.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #318da8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.marketreportshub.com/cancer-immunotherapy-industry-research-marketsandmarkets.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5f1363a1-6d76-4724-9315-23fc66f296df" id="18831f67-a8c2-4c94-8505-5bf7817d869b"> .</gs></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The global cancer immunotherapy market has been segmented on the basis of type, application, end user, and region. The monoclonal <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="12dbe610-5ce6-4d8c-b9aa-61d4f1cd52db" id="c8032ee8-46d8-4266-ab08-cfe240e97e3e">antibodies</gs> segment is expected to register the highest growth rate in the cancer immunotherapy market, by type, during the forecast period. Factors such as high success rate and less recovery time are contributing to the high growth in this segment.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on application, the global cancer immunotherapy market is segmented into lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer, melanoma, prostate cancer, head & neck cancer, and others (renal cell carcinoma, cervical, gastric, and lymphoma). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Geographically, the cancer immunotherapy market is dominated by North America, followed by Europe. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The major players in the cancer immunotherapy market include Amgen (U.S.), AstraZeneca (U.K.), F. Hoffman La-Roche Ltd. (Switzerland), Bayer AG (Germany), Bristol-Myers Squibb (U.S.), Eli Lilly and Company (U.S.), Janssen Global Services, LLC (Belgium), Merck (U.S.), Novartis (Switzerland), and Pfizer (U.S.). Order a copy of Cancer Immunotherapy Market by Type (Monoclonal Antibodies, Cancer Vaccines, Check Point Inhibitors & Immunomodulators), Application (Lung, Breast, Colorectal, Melanoma, Prostate, Head & Neck), End User (Hospital and Clinics) - Global Forecast to <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bd0c8ccc-dc48-48e6-866a-8e5076202963" id="24583884-6ca5-4f98-85d7-186ea87ffebe">2021 research report</gs> at </span><a href="http://www.marketreportshub.com/purchase?rpid=4248" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #318da8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.marketreportshub.com/purchase?rpid=4248</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="bd0c8ccc-dc48-48e6-866a-8e5076202963" id="90bdf283-7be8-401a-ab9c-3e32d0a403c3"> .</gs></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Apart from comprehensive geographic & product analysis and market sizing, the report also provides a competitive landscape that covers the growth strategies adopted by industry players over the last three years. In addition, the company profiles comprise the product portfolios, developments, and strategies adopted by the market players to maintain and increase their shares in the market. The above-mentioned market research data, current market size, and forecast of the future trends will help key market players and new entrants to make the necessary decisions regarding product offerings, geographic focus, change in strategic approach, and levels of output, in order to remain successful in the cancer immunotherapy market. Novartis International Ag (Switzerland) and Roche Holding Ag (Switzerland) have been profiled in this 126 <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0a69e05c-a90b-414d-bedf-8841b5401387" id="2dd11dc9-dfb4-491c-bb29-23fee186f355">pages</gs> research report available at </span><a href="http://www.marketreportshub.com/immunotherapy-drugs-industry-research-marketsandmarkets.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #318da8; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.marketreportshub.com/immunotherapy-drugs-industry-research-marketsandmarkets.html</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="0a69e05c-a90b-414d-bedf-8841b5401387" id="4ec8bc0f-0554-42ba-94fd-635eff5c26c4"> .</gs></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #373737; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full story: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4472c4; font-family: "quattrocento"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cancer-immunotherapy-market-to-hit-14-cagr-to-2021-594387481.html</span></div>
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<br />Diana Aylinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09425744178372607177noreply@blogger.com2New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-56852033492572328802016-10-11T14:35:00.000+13:002016-10-11T14:39:58.599+13:00October Newsletter 2016<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The turnout was good at today’s meeting with about 20 people present, including some new faces. It was lovely to see people from our Facebook group present in the flesh. And Minnie was able to come along and talk to us about her organisation called Be.accessible. You might not think that a disability/accessibility group is relevant to us but Minnie’s explanation made it very much so. We also learnt a lot from the Cancer Society representatives who talked to us in the second half. How blessed we are to have the Society provide us with their services. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Before the talks we discussed issues like our new website and the isolation of people in some rural areas. Diana explained that our present website is only two dimensional, not interactive. Our new website, to be online at the end of the month, will have many features. It will be less about us, the administrators, and more about people all over New Zealand. We will keep our Facebook group going of course but the website will also be a storage site for important information such as the head and neck cancer guidelines provided by PhD student Amy Richardson and checked by Professor Randall Morton. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4587; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 26.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Accessibility means more than wheelchair access</span><img alt="2-DSC_1749.JPG" height="229" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_bvM5o4njFUnmz1NPwnOsmqOvNusBlL5wB57HGh_Jau_QHJrIyV7Gwv739xMhrh8K2T5NdwyGlj8HLGfvLLJxvehS_HJppeZYaobksOMiBS_5UE55G0NivHzEHe3M28k0fF6Waj6" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="144" /></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it’s not just about accessing the health system but how we live with accessibility problems throughout our lives. Minnie said that 25% of the population have issues with accessibility. (For head and neckers this could mean eating out, speaking, or problems with our appearance, for example.) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Be.accessible was launched in 2011 and tried to tap into the audacious New Zealand spirit. We were the first to give women the vote, to have a document like the Treaty of Waitangi, to go anti-nuclear. We could lead the way in creating a fully accessible society. “Diversity is part of being human,” she said. </span><img height="49" src="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/sqA4e2z0M0L8VNQcJHGuo5Q/image?w=301&h=49&rev=71&ac=1" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="301" /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">She and her team wanted to turn disability on its head and see it as an opportunity. It is a business chance for many who compete to earn a high status on Be.accessible’s ranking system which ranges from Bronze to Platinum. After all, there is good business to be done in targeting growing sections of the public. Look at the pink dollars for the gay community and the green dollar for the environmentally aware. Be.accessible came up with the yellow dollar (the colour of their brand) for the accessibility sector and it’s working. The Auckland Art Gallery and the Auckland Zoo are currently competing to get to Gold. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They are also helping the new International Airport develop accessibility. They are making inroads into the health system. One of the private breast clinics has a Silver rating. Because many doctors have an A-type personality by nature, she is hoping they will compete to achieve a high accessibility status.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For much more detail about Be.accessible, go to their website. </span><a href="http://www.beaccessible.org.nz/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.beaccessible.org.nz/</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #434343; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13.333333333333332px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm’s all about.” Haruki Murakami</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1c4587; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 26.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Access to support services: the Cancer Society</span></h1>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="1-DSC_1755.JPG" height="307" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/GQJhmcb3U-vO8yw1vxC2fw_fYyLEiHht4TKhMpaEHHDnXLfeTw5aEvWbxHI5kz0FZpNIEmLpCsu-yIRBiF5VrK8uerP7L9rdSXNRNwf9OzntBajFr5FibjgkI9XY7BubFkGQmzil" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="485" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 21.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Overview</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Michelle Gundersen-Reid, Manager of Supportive Care and her colleagues, Rebecca Irwin and Jacqui Fill, spoke to us about the services offered up here in the Northern Region which covers the three Auckland DHBs and Northland. Auckland has Domain Lodge which has many facilities on top of its accommodation function and Whangarei has Daffodil House staffed by five people. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1963 New Zealand was divided into six regional divisions and the Cancer Society became the Cancer Society of New Zealand Inc. In 1981 a national office was set up in Wellington to which all the regions pay a levy. Each division has its own CEO and board so the divisions differ from each other to some extent. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are core services like the 088 CANCER helpline. Cancer Connect is run by Christchurch/West Coast but is a national service. Cancer Chat is run by the Wellington division. They will provide cancer tips and have nurses on the site. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All divisions run community visits and offer a volunteer driver service.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the years go on and hospitals are employing Cancer Care Coordinators, the Society is moving into post-treatment care. Hospitals think that issues stop when treatments stop, but that isn’t always the case. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Numbers of people who attend Domain Lodge for help with coping are very high. For example, there were 728 referrals to psychological services last year, 1967 counselling sessions and 874 people attending the various groups and classes. You can find information about groups and services on the Cancer Society website. There are too many to list here. Interestingly, one of the most successful groups is the “Light of Love” group provided for Mandarin speakers.</span><img height="59" src="https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/sqvAq_BjcTu5JVZM2LZKqGA/image?w=351&h=59&rev=36&ac=1" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="351" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rebecca is in charge of the liaison nurses and the information service. There are nurses available in the offices upstairs in Domain Lodge, near the library. Here you can meet with them face to face. The liaison nurses visit people in their homes, help people manage their symptoms and navigate the system. They also work closely with the hospitals to ensure the best care possible. Last year they carried out 6071 visits.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A nurse also attends the ORL clinics during radiation. A Cancer Society person is one of the big team we come across when we have the weekly oral health appointment. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 21.333333333333332px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volunteer service</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jackie manages the 450 volunteers who work for the Cancer Society in Auckland. Volunteer drivers, “an amazing group of people”, comprise 260 of the volunteer group. Last year 717 people were driven to hospital in 4257 trips. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They have an excellent database to manage the driving service. If you want to volunteer, go to the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How Can We Help?</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Page and click on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Health Professional</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> button. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://auckland-northland.cancernz.org.nz/</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Volunteers help in so many other ways. Those of us who had radiation will remember the “yellowshirts” who welcome us in the waiting room and are always ready to make us a cup of tea. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finally, there are some new resources arriving on the Cancer Society website. They have information on how to work with WINZ and some new material on dental care provided by the Dental Department at Christchurch Hospital. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.cancervic.org.au/about-cancer/cancer_types/head-neck-cancers/recovery-head-neck.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.cancervic.org.au/about-cancer/cancer_types/head-neck-cancers/recovery-head-neck.html</span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I was born and bred in Invercargill, am 61 years of age, never smoked and didn’t drink. I left high school and worked at a solicitor’s as a legal typist, married at 17 years of age and had three beautiful children, a son and two daughters.</span></div>
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<a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/mQAVVQILPNa5MHdkt_YkgBb8iOyo2ty-vSFnpMQ7Jxc3GeuWrrOeu-zONWMuV4od_SfjkcZRXfLXhrDBlIK94Ac3NRxMAvSpw3BA9VvHumaMWYQ11pkxKsnfGZcqbV9O3v2YZ-nQ" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/mQAVVQILPNa5MHdkt_YkgBb8iOyo2ty-vSFnpMQ7Jxc3GeuWrrOeu-zONWMuV4od_SfjkcZRXfLXhrDBlIK94Ac3NRxMAvSpw3BA9VvHumaMWYQ11pkxKsnfGZcqbV9O3v2YZ-nQ" style="border: none; transform: rotate(0rad);" width="163" /></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Prior to having my youngest I got quite sick in 1980 and was diagnosed with Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura otherwise known as ITP and was given a splenectomy. ITP is a low platelet count (white blood cells). Since the splenectomy I have to carry antibiotics with me everywhere as I have a very low immune system and can get sick quite quickly. I also have injections every two years to help with my immune system.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">After my youngest was 2 ½ years of age I worked at a Drycleaners as Office Manager and was there for 21 years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My first husband was killed in a car crash on his 42</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">nd</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> birthday and my second husband died on my birthday in bed beside me with a massive heart attack.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the things we do every year has been to travel. For our first four years together we had a caravan in Australia and travelled all around Australia for about three to four month of the year, avoiding the New Zealand winter. We have since purchased a property over in Australia at Twin Waters on the Sunshine Coast and we still go over there for about three to four months of our New Zealand winter. For the past four years we also went cruising. The first one was around Vanuatu and the islands, the next one was the Mediterranean and then we did Spain and Portugal. one was to China and Beijing where we went to my home stay’s daughter’s wedding and that was a full Chinese wedding. Last year we cruised around Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> On our return to New Zealand after our cruise around Asia, my journey began. I had a bit of a nagging cough which is not unusual for me but it just did not seem to go away so I went to my doctor. Glands were a bit swollen and I was given two different inhalers to use. Cough improved and so did my sore throat but for some reason things did not seem right. I put my fingers down my throat and found a lump on my tongue which I did not like the feel of so back to the doctor. Three weeks later, he referred me to an ENT specialist who took a biopsy. The result of that was on the 30</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> October 2015 my life totally changed forever. I had cancer, something I never wanted to hear. He organised a CT Scan and I also had to have a PET Scan. On 23</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">rd</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> November 2015 was the result of the PET Scan and the doctor said, “Well I am sorry to say it is not good.” It had spread to my lymph glands in my neck and in my groin. I went to see another specialist who wanted me to have biopsies done of the glands in my neck and groin and the result of this was better than I expected. They had downgraded the cancer from a IV to a III and II. I had Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the base of the tongue Level II and Level III.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On my first day of treatment I ended up in hospital with very high blood pressure. It was 215. They had to cancel day five of my chemotherapy due to the high blood pressure and they changed the type of chemotherapy so I only had to have one full day of chemotherapy in my third week. During this time I ended up getting blood clots in my arm due to the PICC Line so was put on a course of Clexane injections for three months.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The end of week six of my treatment I hit a brick wall and went downhill very fast. I was given morphine to help me with the pain and on the 25</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> January 2016 I was put on a PEG feeding tube to help me with my food as there was no way I could eat. 29</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> January 2016 could not come quick enough as it was the last day of my treatment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I struggled with the pain in my mouth from ulcers over the next few weeks as they were not healing. Got the feeding tube taken out after a month which made me feel so much better. Food was still a struggle though and I had no taste and no saliva glands. 18</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> March was the last day for my Clexane injections a milestone for me that day. My days were spent in bed and sleeping as I was on a fairly high dose of morphine and the pain from the ulcers were not going away as they were not healing. 14</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 8.799999999999999px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: super; white-space: pre-wrap;">th</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> April 2016 I finally got medication to help the healing process plus</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I was put on antidepressants as I had hit another brick wall. As time went by my days seemed to be getting better. I lost 15kg in weight but I was very lucky that I had the weight to lose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Way Ahead</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It is now eight months since treatment finished, I am no longer taking any medication apart from multi vitamins and probiotic tablets. My eating is pretty good but I do struggle with taste. One day it can be reasonably good then the next day everything is so bland. I have no saliva glands and have been told this will most likely be permanent so I have my drink bottle with me all the time as this is my new normal. I feel good, and every week I improve and feel I am getting more energy every day. My oncologist is very happy with my progress and has told me that the cancer has gone. I still live in that fear that it will come back but I am a survivor and I have my support group which consisted of my partner, my children, my grandchildren and my friends that got me through. I still go to the doctor monthly to get blood tests and have my blood pressure taken and I am down to three monthly visits with my oncologist, two monthly visits with my ENT specialist and three monthly visits with my dentist.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My goal next year is to travel to Canada, go on the train trip around the Rockies and also do an Alaskan and a Caribbean cruise</span></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><img alt="Screenshot 2016-08-05 13.22.03.png" height="138" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/yACtPXkiu3iBwEbaaEj6JZZ_iIVv7sGa9IoNFQNnNRrMX5FC8-FEdkqC-nrYZps4StoXF-J6sQMlGWvyeNXd4z2eSEcRmvM3jDji4_FnEfXBg-j755AWnS_9J1JShZQAk5us-QeW" style="-webkit-transform: rotate(0.00rad); border: none; transform: rotate(0.00rad);" width="133" /></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This month we are fundraising to support what we believe to be the first interactive internet-based cancer support group in New Zealand. We have purchased software that will enable us to be an online community of support and advocacy. The new website, under development for the last three months, will go online at the end of October. We are actively fundraising to ensure we can sustain the online community for three or more years. We want to reach a target of $2,500. If you wish to make a donation </span><a href="https://givealittle.co.nz/project/headnecknz" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">click here. </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Throughout his pro football career with the Buffalo Bills, Jim Kelly was known for his strength and motto: “Kelly tough.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Built on the importance of being mentally and physically strong and able to bounce back from injuries, the motto took a on new – and more important – meaning in 2013 when Kelly was diagnosed with cancer in his upper jaw. After a long and challenging road, in August 2014, doctors gave Kelly the good news that they could no longer find evidence of any cancer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13px;">Now he’s on a mission to help other people with head and neck cancer (HNC) through the <span style="font-family: "Arial Black", Gadget, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Your</em></strong><em><strong>Cancer Game Plan </strong></em></span>program<em>. </em>As part of the initiative, Kelly will discuss how the positive attitude and persistence that he learned as an athlete helped him in his journey, as well as the importance of nutrition and support from his friends and family.</span></div>
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HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-86009159990301274222016-10-05T07:00:00.000+13:002016-10-05T07:00:03.351+13:00Weekly Wednesday - Head and neck cancer news<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 18.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Molecular switch may boost cancer immune therapy: Study</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 24px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/biotech/sdut-carl-june-cancer-talk-2014may14-story.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cancer immunotherapies</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> have progressed spectacularly in recent years, placing </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/health/13gene.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">some patients who were nearing death into total remission</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. But results are uneven, and far from a general cure.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A team led by UC San Diego researchers </span><a href="https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2016-09-19-molecular-switch-controlling-immune-supression-may-turn-up-immunotherapies.aspx" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">may have found a way of making these cancer immunotherapies more potent</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In a study performed in mice, they have discovered a molecular switch that controls the response of immune cells called macrophages. These are early responders that engulf and destroy pathogens, including cancer cells.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The growth of tumors was significantly suppressed and survival extended in the mice. A Phase 1 trial of a drug that uses this mechanism was recently started by a biotech company that collaborated with the researchers on the study</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaap/ncurrent/full/nature19834.html" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study was published Sept. 19</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in the journal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nature</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><a href="https://researchconnection.com/research/university-of-california-san-diego/pathology/judith-varner%27s-research" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Judith Varner</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was senior author and </span><a href="https://researchconnection.com/research/university-of-california-san-diego/cancer-center/megan-kaneda%27s-research" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Megan Kaneda</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was first author..</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Macrophages play a key role in moderating the immune response. When they encounter pathogens, they release inflammatory proteins called cytokines that activate T cells, which also attack the threat. When the pathogens are gone, the macrophages turn down the immune response by releasing other cytokines that turn off inflammation and promote cellular repair.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cancer cells recruit macrophages and prompt them to make the anti-inflammatory cytokines, inhibiting a T-cell response. This remodelling of what is called the tumour microenvironment makes it difficult for the immune system to get at the cancer. It presumably also interferes with cancer immunotherapies that activate these T cells.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study tested a combination therapy with a checkpoint inhibitor and a PI3Ky inhibitor. Human tumours grafted on the mice regressed in 86 percent of males and nearly all females so treated.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If a drug to inhibit PI3Ky is successfully developed, yet another tool would be added to cancer immunotherapy. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full story: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4472c4; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A bold new surgery pioneered at the University of Alberta Hospital is getting attention around the world.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Surgeons can now move patients' thyroids into their forearms to protect the sensitive glands from being damaged during radiation treatment for head and neck cancers.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shaped like a butterfly, the thyroid gland is located in the front of the neck, below the Adam's apple. It wraps around the windpipe. It secretes hormones that influence the body's metabolism, growth and development, and body temperature.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Moving the gland from its normal position to a permanent new home in a patient's forearm allows the gland to remain healthy during cancer treatment and continue to function normally after the radiation treatment is finished.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “As long as it has good blood supply coming in and good blood supply going out, it continues to function as a viable organ," says Dr. Jeffrey Harris, a surgical oncologist at the University of Alberta Hospital.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About 14 patients have been a part of a study that has seen them undergo the novel procedure. Patients are enjoying a better quality of life because of the innovative surgery.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full story at: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4472c4; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/innovative-surgery-at-u-of-a-hospital-sees-cancer-patients-thyroids-moved-into-their-arms-1.3771465</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new study from researchers at Henry Ford Hospital finds an incisionless robotic surgery -- done alone or in conjunction with chemotherapy or radiation -- may offer oropharyngeal cancer patients good outcomes and survival, without significant pain and disfigurement.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Patients with cancers of the base of tongue, tonsils, soft palate and pharynx who underwent TransOral Robotic Surgery, or TORS, as the first line of treatment experienced an average three-year survival from time of diagnosis.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most notably, the study's preliminary results reveal oropharyngeal cancer patients who are p16 negative -- a marker for the human papilloma virus, or HPV, that affects how well cancer will respond to treatment -- have good outcomes with TORS in combination with radiation and/or chemotherapy.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Led by Dr. Ghanem, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit was among the first in the country to perform TORS using the da Vinci® Surgical System. TORS offers patients an option to remove certain head and neck cancer tumours without visible scarring, while preserving speech and the ability to eat.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With TORS, surgeons can access tumours through the mouth using the slender operating arms of the da Vinci, thus not requiring an open skin incision.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Unlike traditional surgical approaches to head and neck cancer that require a large incision and long recovery, TORS patients are able to return to their normal lives only a few days after surgery without significant pain and disfigurement.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full story</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #004276; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160916110638.htm</span></span></div>
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HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com0New Zealand-40.900557 174.88597100000004-65.234714 133.57737700000004 -16.566399999999998 -143.805435tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-26375049769772475122016-10-04T19:01:00.003+13:002016-10-05T10:36:22.220+13:00Resident doctors' strike: Key blames DHBs<br />
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This is an extract from Stuff, one I can't take lying down. "Efficiency" (see below) suggests to me that DHBs provide less than gold standard care.<br />
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An example is the use of stoma covers for laryngectomy patients. In the UK and in some regions of NZ the superior HME filters are provided. NOT in the DHBs of some of our biggest regions.<br />
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HeadNeckNZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17890186340520448080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-88230469827352053082016-10-04T10:24:00.001+13:002016-10-04T10:24:17.243+13:00Graft site on wrist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For a long time I wore a bandage or Adidas tennis wristband on my graft site from the radial forearm flap surgery.<br />
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Then I experimented with wide bracelets. The site was gory looking for quite some time: maybe a year. Now, I hardly notice the scar. It's obvious but not gruesome looking anymore - just an innocuous pink.<br />
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Tubular bandages were good but the tennis bands classier.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-91342457264435637942016-10-01T15:57:00.000+13:002016-10-01T15:57:27.022+13:00Compassionate access drugs, a tragic story (NZ Listener)<br />
Here is Donna Chisholm's excellent story from the New Zealand Listener. It has recently become available online<br />
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This looks like a great website. I thought it was a New Zealand site but no. Nevertheless it's the sort of site that caregivers will welcome. The sort of site that we aspire to.<br />
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Looks like a good read.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4897524048842535561.post-26512739103881743212016-09-13T07:00:00.000+12:002016-09-13T07:00:01.483+12:00Cancer Nurse Coordinators advancing care coordination<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">A forum of Cancer Nurse Coordinators has had a snapshot of findings from an evaluation of<br />the initiative. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Liz Smith from Litmus Limited, which has undertaken the evaluation, gave a summary of her </span><span style="font-family: arial;">findings to the two-day forum in May. Liz’s overall comments were that the initiative is making </span><span style="font-family: arial;">good progress in achieving its objectives, and there is evidence of success. She drew on a </span><span style="font-family: arial;">patient perspective, in which the cancer nurse coordinators had made their cancer journey </span><span style="font-family: arial;">less dramatic, smooth and stress free, because they were their ‘go to person’ avoiding the </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">eelings of being ‘lost’.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Liz acknowledged the people who have taken the time to provide the information that has </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">informed the evaluation, including people with cancer, their families and whanau, the nurses </span><span style="font-family: arial;">themselves as well as and other DHB staff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">The final report of the evaluation will be publicly available in September 2016.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">The Cancer Nurse Coordinator forum involved all cancer nurse co-ordinators and interested </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">members of the wider team who are involved in care coordination. The theme for the forum </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">was ‘Te Poutama o Tane Nui Rangi – advancing care coordination’. This was to challenge the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">nurses to expand knowledge in key areas of care coordination and discuss what resources </span><span style="font-family: arial;">are required to enable improved care coordination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">Dr Lynne Maher, Director of Innovation from Ko Awatea, gave an energetic discussion on </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">strategies to change behaviour. She acknowledged that the role of cancer nurse coordinators</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">can be testing due to cancer patients receiving care across a number of different services and </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">directorates. She explained that engaging well with multiple different health professionals to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: xx-small;">facilitate change is important.</span> </div>
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