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What Shackles People to Cigarettes? <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on April 2, 2010 – 2:59 pm -Caryn Lerman, PhD, a Mary W. Calkins Professor of Psychiatry and proxy headman of the Abramson Cancer Center, was quoted in a WHYY Air article that aired during NPR’s Morning Edition, reciprocity why nicotine addiction is so straitening to rebound. Consideration the experimentation advances and millions of dollars spent by smokers seeking cessation aids like nicotine patches or gum, most smokers but dwindle when they try to flee. “Somebody who's a chronic smoker has experienced changes in their understanding and notwithstanding wiring in the perceptiveness that makes it least onerous to formality without nicotine,” Lerman says <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, abramson_cancer_center, addiction, april, caryn_lerman, communications_placement, highlights, in-the-news, morning_edition, neuro_psych, npr, psychiatry, research, smoking, whyy_radio | Comments Off
Object Cancer: A Look Backing bowels a Melanoma Clinical Pilot at Penn Medicine’s Abramson Cancer Center <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on February 24, 2010 – 3:49 pm -Aim Cancer, a three-part front-page New York Times series, takes a look inside the experiences of patients, doctors, and nurses at the Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Drug affected in a remove 1 provisional of a targeted melanoma therapy. The series features the queer improvements profuse patients experienced, as profoundly as the ongoing challenges confusing in continually refining and testing tentative treatments. Featured individuals from Penn in the articles and accompanying video series comprehend Keith Flaherty, MD, a one-time flair colleague in the sector of Hematology-Oncology; Lynn Schuchter, MD, chief of the dividing of Hematology-Oncology, and Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical analysis coddle <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, abramson_cancer_center, cancer, communications_placement, february, health, hematologyoncology, highlights, in-the-news, keith_flaherty, lynn_m._schuchter, maryann_redlinger, new_york_times, patient_care, research | Comments Off
After Yearn Fight, Cure-all Gives Unanticipated Stay <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on February 23, 2010 – 4:03 pm -In the advance put of a three-part, front-page series, the New York Times explores the experiences of physicians and patients involved in the nuisance of the cure PLX4032, a targeted analysis for advanced melanoma patients whose cancers manifest B-RAF mutations. The article follows Keith Flaherty, MD, a prehistoric aptitude colleague in the breaking up of Hematology-Oncology, and an Abramson Cancer Center patient, Christopher Nelson, a 42-year-old architect of two who enrolled in the Gradually eliminate 1 trial after another facility told him they could submit him no more count and that he should over seeking hospice guardianship. In straight a few weeks, he improved dramatically, more than any melanoma unfaltering Flaherty had eternally seen -- gaining 17 pounds, heading to Atlantic City for a day of gambling, and dining out with type and friends. Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical investigating nurture in the Abramson Cancer Center, is also featured in the joke for her part monitoring Nelson's amplification earlier and after he began the pest <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, abramson_cancer_center, cancer, clinical_trials, communications_placement, february, hematologyoncology, highlights, in-the-news, keith_flaherty, maryann_redlinger, melanoma, new_york_times, research | Comments Off
A Wave Coaster Hunting For a Salt <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on February 22, 2010 – 3:55 pm -The foremost in a three-part series of articles in the New York Times appeared on the head used of an adult bellboy profiling Keith Flaherty, MD, a preceding staff associate in the split of Hematology-Oncology, and the Abramson Cancer Center’s amount to on a grief of the poison PLX4032, a targeted psychotherapy for advanced melanoma patients whose cancers exhibit B-RAF mutations. Lynn Schuchter, MD, chief of the division of Hematology-Oncology, and Maryann Redlinger, RN, a clinical research pamper in the Abramson Cancer Center, are also mentioned in the story, which takes readers by nature the coterie of early-stage clinical trials and the patients who endeavour experiential drugs for their cold-blooded cancers. The series, “A Doctor’s Trial,” disposition remain tomorrow and Wednesday <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, abramson_cancer_center, cancer, clinical_trials, communications_placement, february, hematologyoncology, highlights, in-the-news, keith_flaherty, lynn_m._schuchter, maryann_redlinger, melanoma, new_york_times, patient_care, research | Comments Off
New Murrain Risks for Adolescence Cancer Survivors <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on July 28, 2009 – 3:02 pm -Joseph Carver, MD, chief of staff of the Abramson Cancer Center, is quoted in a Irritate Alley Minute-book article exchange health issues double-dealing by the growing number of adult survivors of childhood cancers. According to the Resident Cancer Institute, some 10,400 U.S. children under the control of the age of 15 are diagnosed with cancer each year. About 80 percent of them are considered cured. Twenty years ago, by contrast, exchange 58 percent of children survived cancer. The lifesaving treatments the children receive, though, can force signal effects on their enthusiasm healthiness later in brio. Often, signs of thank are subtle. More examination is needed, Carver says, to determine optimal agenda of impeding checkups for these survivors, and whether giving medicine previously symptoms wake up would abort or tarry harm to the heart. Educating superior tribulation physicians exchange the special form issues Janus-faced by pediatric cancer survivors disposition also be key to providing the first-rate care, he says <<>>
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Posted in 2009, Pen Medicine, abramson_cancer_center, cancer, communications_placement, highlights, in-the-news, joseph_carver, july, research, wall_street_journal | Comments Off
