SWOG Update
October 2009

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Welcome to the October 2009 SWOG Update.

For all members and friends of the Southwest Oncology Group, the SWOG Update will keep you informed of what's happening with the Group. News to report? Send it to communications@swog.org.

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Chair's Corner  
How should we spell success?
Laurence H. Baker photo Questions of how we define success in cancer research and how costs should factor into that definition have been much in the news. [more]

Study Updates  

S0702: Zoledronic acid and ONJ risk
Patients taking zoledronic acid seem to face an increased risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw, or ONJ. S0702 seeks answers. [more]

Dawn Hershman, M.D. S0715: Does ALC prevent neuropathy?
Pain and numbness in hands and feet is a common side effect of taxane-based chemotherapy. Can the dietary supplement acetyl-L-carnitine prevent it? [more]

 
Don't Miss It  
Visualization of MCF-7 genome depicting somatic breast tumor chromosomal rearrangements. (Hampton, et al. Genome Res. 2009 Feb; 19(2); 167-177.) The War on Cancer: Raise the bar, or move the goal line?

Plenary Session
SWOG Fall 2009 Group Meeting
Friday, October 23, 12:15 - 2:45 pm
Gold Level, Regency B - D
Hyatt Regency Chicago
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Rick Bangs is new SWOG Patient Advocate for bladder cancer

photo of Rick Bangs Rick Bangs, new SWOG patient advocate for bladder cancer
Rick Bangs is replacing Diane Zipursky Quale as SWOG's bladder cancer advocate with the Genitourinary Committee. Rick is a bladder cancer and prostate cancer survivor and is a volunteer advocate with the Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network (BCAN). He also volunteers with the University of Michigan Bladder Cancer Support Group.

His stated interests in advocacy include making more effective use of information technology and the Internet in patient advocacy and patient care, and increasing bladder cancer research funding to be commensurate with its impact on the U.S. health care system.

He has 25 years of IT and marketing experience.


Got news to tell? Send it to communications@swog.org.