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It's NOT a "con". All sites are pretty clear on how they work - artists just have to read the contract/TOS carefully.
Yes, my "tone" was off... Yes, I should have put things more diplomatically... However, I'm not angry with the site mentioned. I was disapointed that one particular site was promoted --- as there are many out there. I was aslo disapointed that the particular site (and concept) was made to look like the second coming of Christ, which it is not. A lot of people never reach the $50 so all they accomplished is to feed someone else. 50 cent or less for the use of an image might not be enough for some artist here (read the contract/TOS carefully before signing up).
Look at Jolande's post: research, hard work and a great portfolio will sell images, and the money is banked as with Adsense.
The big difference with micro stock sites is that you are banking on your physical work and copyrighted material - a real commodity. Adsense is just one advertisement method out of many. Another big difference is that you control the ads on your site - a stock site OTH can remove any or all of your images at their discretion (e.g. if it's not selling fast enough according to abstract rules they define for that particular day).
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Source: Hawaii 24/7 [1]
March 13, 2012
"A packed room with standing room only at the Keauhou Beach Resort was buzzing with inquisitive members from the Hawaii Island community.
The free public talk presentation focused on the history, culture and environmental health of Kahaluu Bay and included speakers Kupuna Mitchell Fujisaka, Dr. Kuulei Rodgers, and Kaipo Perez.
The meeting discussing the history of the area and current issues at the bay was sponsored by The National Science Foundation EPSCoR-Track 2, CCRT, HIMB, The Kohala Center, and Jane Musser Fund.
Adorned in maile lei, Fujisaka, a kupuna of the Kahaluu area, was the first to talk-story with the audience. He spoke of his childhood experiences growing up in Kahaluu, as well the culture and history of the area."
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Investigation of Cisco Technologies and Access Solutions
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation, following the recommendation of the Cisco Accessibility Team, has just granted the NTID Center on Access Technology a $100,000 award for a first year of what is anticipated to be a multi-year effort. Bill Clymer, Interim Director of the Center on Access Technology, is PI, and Gary Behm and colleagues from NTID and the other RIT colleges will provide a team of experts to consider the application and adaptation of the ways in which CISCO products can benefit communication access for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. The three research strands will
During the first year, faculty at NTID and RIT will form teams, review the literature and state-of-the-art on CISCO access technologies, set up and test the various CISCO technologies in RIT/NTID laboratories, conduct focus groups and community demonstrations, gather and analyze expert opinion, and prepare whitepapers for each strand, including recommendations for future efforts in these areas. After the first year of work, the team will review progress and findings and determine which current or possibly new research would be most fruitful, and will make recommendations for continued research and development to CISCO.
The common thread among the three research strands will be the identification of local RIT experts in related fields to refine and focus their expertise on the specific telecommunication challenges facing deaf and hard-of-hearing persons. With RIT/NTID faculty expertise in deafness, access technologies, computers, engineering, software development and business, and with the collaboration of appropriate individuals at Cisco, the project team anticipates that the results of this research will encourage Cisco to consider the needs of deaf and hard-of-hearing consumers in future products.
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In three finely-honed stories -- each appearing in a separate journal and one of them the 1986 D.K. Brown Fiction Contest winner -- John Bennion squarely confronts the age's challenges to the Mormon world view and way of life. Whether themselves transgressors and uncertain believers or their distressed kin, Bennion's protagonists reflect both the conscience of sensitive, good people and sophistication and vulnerability of real twentieth-century human beings. As in much significant fiction, the common objective correlative and concrete occasion of their inner struggle -- till now largely skirted by Mormon writers -- is sexual distress. The world of insular communality, agrarian values, strong family and marital ties, an accepting if narrow view of sexuality, dogmatic convictions, and individual sacrifice is -- in each of their minds -- arrestingly opposed to one of rootless personal autonomy, self-centered professionalism, guilt-ridden hedonism, cosmopolitanism, and underlying dread of nuclear destruction (closely paralleling the conventionally religious anticipation of Armageddon). This juxtaposition, dynamic and kaleidoscopic, creates a refracting lens in which Bennion's Mormon readers can easily discern their own uneasy ethnocentric selves. His portraits urge that the choices before us were never more subtle, all-determining, or difficult. In its culturally informed context, Bennion's psychological realism should enhance Mormons' self-understanding and others' recognition of their intrinsic humanity. John Bennion's is a talent of great promise -- one to be watched with thanks and applause.


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The March of Dimes is celebrating 75 years of helping families with premature babies.
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When budgets are tight most managers think about the same thing before they sign on the dotted line: is this new tool going to help us get more done faster/better/smarter? If the answer is no then like most managers I don't make the investment. Instead I focus on an activity that's going to give me the best return on investment (ROI). That's why last week I talked about time compression being … Read More
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I'm rather proud of our products so whenever I speak with people I have a tendency to talk about features and functions… the juicy stuff. So it's easy to forget that one of the main benefits of simulation is time compression. In the not too distant past, most companies used to do analysis only after the physical prototyping phase. The design team would create a cool design, the proposed design would … Read More
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BOLINGBROOK – Pace officially announced the expansion of its Bus on Shoulders service, effective Monday, May 6, at a press conference Tuesday in Bolingbrook.
The 755 and 855 routes will include additional trips during morning and evening rush hours, as well as a new midday service, Pace announced. There will also be an evening trip on Route 755 that will serve some Metra Heritage Corridor stations on an on-demand basis.
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NEW YORK (AP) - The woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Manti Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O'Meara spoke to NBC's "Today" show Tuesday. She says Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake woman called Lennay Kekua. Te'o asserts he was tricked into an online romance with Kekua and, until last week, believed she died of leukemia in September.
O'Meara went to high school with Tuiasosopo, but she says they're not close. She says he called to apologize Jan. 16, the day Deadspin.com broke the hoax story, but "I don't think there's anything he could say to me that would fix this."
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Jake Niall is a senior sports writer at The Age, specialising in AFL football. Jake joined The Age in 1998, having previously worked as a sports writer on The Sunday Age. He writes a blend of news, feature articles and a weekly column during the football season. Before joining The Sunday Age, Jake was a freelance reporter in the US and a regular contributor to The Sunday Age and The Age from Los Angeles, covering diverse areas like politics, earthquakes, celebrity trials and American sport. Jake ghost wrote the autobiography ('Collingwood and Me', 1991) of champion Collingwood footballer Peter Daicos. While he writes primarily about the AFL, he spends the month of January covering tennis, especially the Australian Open. In 2008, Jake won the Melbourne Press Club Quill Awards' Best Sports Story in any medium for his profile piece on David Schwarz.
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Jake Niall In Nathan Buckley's first season, he was driving a car that had been assembled and successfully steered by Mick Malthouse.
West to head north as Lions restore some pride
Michael Gleeson, Jake Niall and Emma Quayle Brisbane Lions and St Kilda shape as major factors on the final day of the trading period.
Malthouse joins chase for Everitt
Jake Niall Carlton joins Greater Western Sydney, Sydney and West Coast in pursuit of utility.
Blues close to Docherty deal
Jake Niall and Emma Quayle Carlton will pick up Brisbane Lions midfielder Sam Docherty for pick 33.
Elliot Yeo heading for West Coast after Eagles 'create' a second round pick
Jake Niall The Brisbane Lions and West Coast have finalised a deal in which out of contract defender Elliot Yeo will join the Eagles in return for a second round draft pick.
Kangas flag interest in Patrick Karnezis
Jake Niall NORTH Melbourne has shown interest in out of contract Brisbane forward Patrick Karnezis, who has been seeking a trade to Collingwood.
Magpies gain White and pick No. 6
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Bayes' theorem
In probability theory and statistics, Bayes' theorem (alternatively Bayes' law or Bayes' rule) is a result that is of importance in the mathematical manipulation of conditional probabilities. It is a result that derives from the more basic axioms of probability.
When applied, the probabilities involved in Bayes' theorem may have any of a number of probability interpretations. In one of these interpretations, the theorem is used directly as part of a particular approach to statistical inference. ln particular, with the Bayesian interpretation of probability, the theorem expresses how a subjective degree of belief should rationally change to account for evidence: this is Bayesian inference, which is fundamental to Bayesian statistics. However, Bayes' theorem has applications in a wide range of calculations involving probabilities, not just in Bayesian inference.
Bayes' theorem is named after Thomas Bayes (/ˈbeɪz/; 1701–1761), who first suggested using the theorem to update beliefs. His work was significantly edited and updated by Richard Price before it was posthumously read at the Royal Society. The ideas gained limited exposure until they were independently rediscovered and further developed by Laplace, who first published the modern formulation in his 1812 Théorie analytique des probabilités.
Sir Harold Jeffreys wrote that Bayes' theorem "is to the theory of probability what Pythagoras's theorem is to geometry".[1]
Introductory example[edit]
Suppose a man told you he had had a nice conversation with someone on the train. Not knowing anything about this conversation, the probability that he was speaking to a woman is 50% (assuming the train had an equal number of men and women and the speaker was as likely to strike up a conversation with a man as with a woman). Now suppose he also told you that his conversational partner had long hair. It is now more likely he was speaking to a woman, since women are more likely to have long hair than men. Bayes' theorem can be used to calculate the probability that the person was a woman.
To see how this is done, let W represent the event that the conversation was held with a woman, and L denote the event that the conversation was held with a long-haired person. It can be assumed that women constitute half the population for this example. So, not knowing anything else, the probability that W occurs is P(W) = 0.5.
Suppose it is also known that 75% of women have long hair, which we denote as P(L |W) = 0.75 (read: the probability of event L given event W is 0.75). Likewise, suppose it is known that 15% of men have long hair, or P(L |M) = 0.15, where M is the complementary event of W, i.e., the event that the conversation was held with a man (assuming that every human is either a man or a woman).
Our goal is to calculate the probability that the conversation was held with a woman, given the fact that the person had long hair, or, in our notation, P(W |L). Using the formula for Bayes' theorem, we have:
where we have used the law of total probability. The numeric answer can be obtained by substituting the above values into this formula. This yields
i.e., the probability that the conversation was held with a woman, given that the person had long hair, is about 83%. More examples are provided below.
Another way to do this calculation is as follows. Initially, it is equally likely that the conversation is held with a woman as with a man, so the prior odds are 1:1. The respective chances that a man and a woman have long hair are 15% and 75%. It is 5 times more likely that a woman has long hair than that a man has long hair. We say that the likelihood ratio or Bayes factor is 5:1. Bayes' theorem in odds form, also known as Bayes' rule, tells us that the posterior odds that the person was a woman is also 5:1 (the prior odds, 1:1, times the likelihood ratio, 5:1). In a formula:
Statement and interpretation[edit]
Mathematically, Bayes' theorem gives the relationship between the probabilities of A and B, P(A) and P(B), and the conditional probabilities of A given B and B given A, P(A|B) and P(B|A). In its most common form, it is:
The meaning of this statement depends on the interpretation of probability ascribed to the terms:
Bayesian interpretation[edit]
In the Bayesian (or epistemological) interpretation, probability measures a degree of belief. Bayes' theorem then links the degree of belief in a proposition before and after accounting for evidence. For example, suppose somebody proposes that a biased coin is twice as likely to land heads than tails. Degree of belief in this might initially be 50%. The coin is then flipped a number of times to collect evidence. Belief may rise to 70% if the evidence supports the proposition.
For proposition A and evidence B,
- P(A), the prior, is the initial degree of belief in A.
- P(A|B), the posterior, is the degree of belief having accounted for B.
- the quotient P(B|A)/P(B) represents the support B provides for A.
For more on the application of Bayes' theorem under the Bayesian interpretation of probability, see Bayesian inference.
Frequentist interpretation[edit]
In the frequentist interpretation, probability measures a proportion of outcomes. For example, suppose an experiment is performed many times. P(A) is the proportion of outcomes with property A, and P(B) that with property B. P(B|A) is the proportion of outcomes with property B out of outcomes with property A, and P(A|B) the proportion of those with A out of those with B.
The role of Bayes' theorem is best visualized with tree diagrams, as shown to the right. The two diagrams partition the same outcomes by A and B in opposite orders, to obtain the inverse probabilities. Bayes' theorem serves as the link between these different partitionings.
Simple form[edit]
For events A and B, provided that P(B) ≠ 0,
In many applications, for instance in Bayesian inference, the event B is fixed in the discussion, and we wish to consider the impact of its having been observed on our belief in various possible events A. In such a situation the denominator of the last expression, the probability of the given evidence B, is fixed; what we want to vary is A. Bayes theorem then shows that the posterior probabilities are proportional to the numerator:
- (proportionality over A for given B).
In words: posterior is proportional to prior times likelihood (see Lee, 2012, Chapter 1).
If events A1, A2, …, are mutually exclusive and exhaustive, i.e., one of them is certain to occur but no two can occur together, and we know their probabilities up to proportionality, then we can determine the proportionality constant by using the fact that their probabilities must add up to one. For instance, for a given event A, the event A itself and its complement ¬A are exclusive and exhaustive. Denoting the constant of proportionality by c we have
- and
Adding these two formulas we deduce that
Extended form[edit]
Often, for some partition {Aj} of the event space, the event space is given or conceptualized in terms of P(Aj) and P(B|Aj). It is then useful to compute P(B) using the law of total probability:
However as Grinstead and Snell (1997) write "Although this is a very famous formula, we will rarely use it".
In the special case where A is a binary variable:
Random variables[edit]
Consider a sample space Ω generated by two random variables X and Y. In principle, Bayes' theorem applies to the events A = {X = x} and B = {Y = y}. However, terms become 0 at points where either variable has finite probability density. To remain useful, Bayes' theorem may be formulated in terms of the relevant densities (see Derivation).
Simple form[edit]
If X is continuous and Y is discrete,
If X is discrete and Y is continuous,
If both X and Y are continuous,
Extended form[edit]
A continuous event space is often conceptualized in terms of the numerator terms. It is then useful to eliminate the denominator using the law of total probability. For fY(y), this becomes an integral:
Bayes' rule[edit]
Bayes' rule is Bayes' theorem in odds form.
is called the Bayes factor or likelihood ratio
and the odds between two events is simply the ratio of the probabilities of the two events. Thus
- ,
- ,
So the rule says that the posterior odds are the prior odds times the Bayes factor, or in other words, posterior is proportional to prior times likelihood.
For events[edit]
Bayes' theorem may be derived from the definition of conditional probability:
For random variables[edit]
For two continuous random variables X and Y, Bayes' theorem may be analogously derived from the definition of conditional density:
Frequentist example[edit]
An entomologist spots what might be a rare subspecies of beetle, due to the pattern on its back. In the rare subspecies, 98% have the pattern, or P(Pattern|Rare) = 98%. In the common subspecies, 5% have the pattern. The rare subspecies accounts for only 0.1% of the population. How likely is the beetle having the pattern to be rare, or what is P(Rare|Pattern)?
From the extended form of Bayes' theorem (since any beetle can be only rare or common),
Coin flip example[edit]
Concrete example from 5 August 2011 New York Times article by John Allen Paulos (quoted verbatim):
"Assume that you're presented with three coins, two of them fair and the other a counterfeit that always lands heads. If you randomly pick one of the three coins, the probability that it's the counterfeit is 1 in 3. This is the prior probability of the hypothesis that the coin is counterfeit. Now after picking the coin, you flip it three times and observe that it lands heads each time. Seeing this new evidence that your chosen coin has landed heads three times in a row, you want to know the revised posterior probability that it is the counterfeit. The answer to this question, found using Bayes's theorem (calculation mercifully omitted), is 4 in 5. You thus revise your probability estimate of the coin's being counterfeit upward from 1 in 3 to 4 in 5."
The calculation ("mercifully supplied") follows:
Drug testing[edit]
Suppose a drug test is 99% sensitive and 99% specific. That is, the test will produce 99% true positive results for drug users and 99% true negative results for non-drug users. Suppose that 0.5% of people are users of the drug. If a randomly selected individual tests positive, what is the probability he or she is a user?
Despite the apparent accuracy of the test, if an individual tests positive, it is more likely that they do not use the drug than that they do.
This surprising result arises because the number of non-users is very large compared to the number of users; thus the number of false positives (0.995%) outweighs the number of true positives (0.495%). To use concrete numbers, if 1000 individuals are tested, there are expected to be 995 non-users and 5 users. From the 995 non-users, 0.01 × 995 ≃ 10 false positives are expected. From the 5 users, 0.99 × 5 ≃ 5 true positives are expected. Out of 15 positive results, only 5, about 33%, are genuine.
Bayes Theorem is significantly important in inverse problem theory, where the a posteriori pdf is obtained from the product of prior pdf and the likelihood pdf. An important application is constructing computational models of oil reservoirs given the observed data.[2]
Bayes' theorem was named after the Reverend Thomas Bayes (1701–61), who studied how to compute a distribution for the probability parameter of a binomial distribution (in modern terminology). His friend Richard Price edited and presented this work in 1763, after Bayes' death, as An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances.[3] The French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace reproduced and extended Bayes' results in 1774, apparently quite unaware of Bayes' work.[4] Stephen Stigler suggested in 1983 that Bayes' theorem was discovered by Nicholas Saunderson some time before Bayes.[5] However, this interpretation has been disputed.[6]
- ^ Jeffreys, Harold (1973), Scientific Inference (3rd ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 31, ISBN 978-0-521-18078-8
- ^ Gharib Shirangi, M., History matching production data and uncertainty assessment with an efficient TSVD parameterization algorithm, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0920410513003227
- ^ Bayes, Thomas, and Price, Richard (1763). "An Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chance. By the late Rev. Mr. Bayes, communicated by Mr. Price, in a letter to John Canton, A. M. F. R. S.". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 53 (0): 370–418. doi:10.1098/rstl.1763.0053.
- ^ Daston, Lorraine (1988). Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. Princeton Univ Press. p. 268. ISBN 0-691-08497-1.
- ^ Stigler, Stephen M. (1983), "Who Discovered Bayes' Theorem?", The American Statistician 37(4):290–296. doi:10.1080/00031305.1983.10483122
- ^ Edwards, A. W. F. (1986), "Is the Reference in Hartley (1749) to Bayesian Inference?", The American Statistician 40(2):109–110 doi:10.1080/00031305.1986.10475370
Further reading[edit]
- McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2011). The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-18822-6.
- Andrew Gelman, John B. Carlin, Hal S. Stern, and Donald B. Rubin (2003), "Bayesian Data Analysis", Second Edition, CRC Press.
- Charles M. Grinstead and J. Laurie Snell (1997), "Introduction to Probability (2nd edition)", American Mathematical Society (free pdf available [1].
- Pierre-Simon Laplace. (1774/1986), "Memoir on the Probability of the Causes of Events", Statistical Science 1(3):364–378.
- Peter M. Lee (2012), "Bayesian Statistics: An Introduction", Wiley.
- Rosenthal, Jeffrey S. (2005): "Struck by Lightning: the Curious World of Probabilities". Harper Collings.
- Stephen M. Stigler (1986), "Laplace's 1774 Memoir on Inverse Probability", Statistical Science 1(3):359–363.
- Hazewinkel, Michiel, ed. (2001), "Bayes formula", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, Springer, ISBN 978-1-55608-010-4
- Stone, JV (2013). Chapter 1 of book "Bayes' Rule: A Tutorial Introduction", University of Sheffield, Psychology.
External links[edit]
- The Theory That Would Not Die by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne New York Times Book Review by John Allen Paulos on 5 August 2011
- Visual explanation of Bayes using trees (video)
- Bayes' frequentist interpretation explained visually (video)
- Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (B). Contains origins of "Bayesian", "Bayes' Theorem", "Bayes Estimate/Risk/Solution", "Empirical Bayes", and "Bayes Factor".
- Weisstein, Eric W., "Bayes' Theorem", MathWorld.
- Bayes' theorem at PlanetMath
- A tutorial on probability and Bayes' theorem devised for Oxford University psychology students
- An Intuitive Explanation of Bayes' Theorem by Eliezer S. Yudkowsky


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"…The banking system remains severely stressed, with some form of new easing—a QE-3—likely just a matter of time, and likely sooner rather than later. All Fed actions since the crisis of 2007 and panic of 2008 have been aimed at saving the banking system—not the economy—where the survival and health of banking system is the Fed's primary function.
"In the current political environment, however, the Fed likely would run into heavy public opposition to an ongoing effort to bailout the banking system. …Any new form of easing will be justified under the cover of an effort to boost economic activity.
"The April payroll-survey employment gain of 115,000 was below already-weak consensus expectations, for a second month, while the household survey showed an outright monthly employment contraction for the second month. None of the month-to-month changes were statistically significant, as usual, but year-to-year change in nonfarm payrolls has begun to slow markedly."
"Household-Survey Employment Fell as Payroll Growth Faltered"
John Williams, shadowstats.com, 5/4/12
Major Challenges confront investors in the 2nd half 2012. So it is essential to describe the Key Forces which will influence the 2nd half, as the Markets Takedowns earlier this week show.
Indeed, The Precious Metals and Tangible Assets Price Takedowns of Recent Days reflects The Cartel's (See Note 1) increasingly desperate Attacks on pro-Precious Metals and Tangible Asset Sentiment and thus on Prices. Considering "why" indicates how to profit from the Opportunities arising from the Takedowns.
First we know that in the two of the three largest economies in the World, the Eurozone and the U.S., unemployment is high and rising, with youth unemployment near 50% in Key Countries of the Eurozone. Citizen dissatisfaction has been reflected in the recent French and Greek Elections and their Aftermath, and will intensify.
Moreover, Official Employment and other figures in Key Countries are Bogus.
"Let's cover the April Jobs and Unemployment report issued by the Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. They reported that the Unemployment rate as of April 30th was 8.1 percent, which of course is nonsense. It fails to include 7.9 million people looking for full time work, but involuntarily settling for part-time work. Of course part-time work is a double whammy, low wages and no benefits. It also fails to include 2.4 million folks who want to work, looked for work in the past 12 months, but not the past 30 days. It also fails to include immigrants who are looking for work, but are here, living in this country, marrying, having children. If we add all this together, we are talking a real unemployment rate of around 20 percent. Then we need to consider quality paying jobs, which are not in this number. Full time employed folks at minimum wage, a wage insufficient to support a family. The entirety of this situation is dismal.
"Now, to the interesting number. The BLS reported with a straight face that the economy created 115,000 new jobs in April. This number deeply disappointed markets. It is a number that failed to cover the breakeven figure of 150,000 needed to simply cover legal population growth, let alone eat into the ranks of the unemployed.
"But wait, the 115,000 is vastly overstated. It was really a lie. The CES Birth Death adjustment in April was a whopper of a lie, 206,000. In other words, the BLS fudged the non-farm payroll actual counted number by 206,000, made it seem better by 206,000 than it really was. It means the economy actually lost 91,000 net jobs in April."
Robert McHugh, "McHugh's Market Forecasting & Trading Report," 5/4/12
Indeed, in the U.S., Real Unemployment is 22.3%. Moreover, Real U.S. GDP is a Negative 2.17% and Real Inflation 10.28% (see paragraph re shadowstats below). Moreover, it is no wonder that economies are not recovering and that unemployment is increasing because, as shadowstats points out, the Bailouts and QE were, and are, all about sustaining a Profitable Banking System for its owners (including the owners of the Private For-Profit Fed) at the expense of taxpayers, as we describe in our Article, "Gain From Gargantua" from 3/2/12 in the 'Articles by Deepcaster Cache' at deepcaster.com.
Another Key Reality going forward is that all the Bailouts and Q.E. (i.e. Money Printing) is coming at a Great Cost. This vast and increasing Monetary Inflation is already transforming itself into Price Inflation. We emphasize that in the U.S., the numbers are already threshold Hyperinflationary with Real Inflation at 10.28%.
Shadowstats.com calculates Key Statistics the way they were calculated in the 1980s and 1990s before Official Data Manipulation began in earnest. Consider
Bogus Official Numbers vs. Real Numbers (per Shadowstats.com)
Annual U.S. Consumer Price Inflation reported April 13, 2012 2.65% / 10.28% U.S. Unemployment reported May 4, 2012 8.2% / 22.3% U.S. GDP Annual Growth/Decline reported April 27, 2012 1.62% / -2.17% U.S. M3 reported May 7, 2012 (Month of March, Y.O.Y.) No Official Report / 3.02% (e)
Failing to take the impending Hyperinflation into account can be lethally destructive to wealth.
And the Third increasingly troublesome Reality going forward is that of Debt Saturation, not just of certain companies and citizens, but of Sovereign Nations, because several Key Sovereign Nations Debts can never be repaid.
As a result, Social Chaos is increasing and Extreme measures are being considered. Spain's 10yr Note Yields are at 6%ish again; its Banks/Economy will "need" over $1Trillion. That is, it is too Big to Bail.
Some Nations may resort to an "Icelandic approach" of Debt Repudiation. For example, Great Britain may resort to an approach similar to Iceland's, a decision which would have profound effects on the Capital Markets.
"Britain could be just eight months away from cancelling billions of pounds of public debt that it acquired with made-up money, Financial Mail has learnt.
"The first £8billion of gilts – Government bonds – bought under the Bank of England's quantitative easing scheme will be due for repayment from the start of next year.
That means the Treasury will give the Bank £8billion to redeem gilts that the Bank bought with cash that it conjured out of thin air.
"The Bank, a nationalised industry whose shares are owned by the Treasury, could then return the £8billion to George Osborne and his colleagues, who will in effect have spent £8billion of free money."
Dan Atkinson, "Treasury could make £8bn of public debt 'disappear' if it cancels bonds bought by Bank of England," 5/5/12 Financial Mail
Indeed, as one Commentator on Dan Atkinson's report notes, such an "Icelandic" Debt Repudiation course of Action could go a long way toward Alleviating both Great Britain's and the USA's Debt Crises.
"The private, for-profit Federal Reserve cabal borrowed its funny-money concept from the Rothschild-controlled Bank of England. The idea is that these central banks conjure up money from thin air [a book-keeping entry], then lend [by buying government bonds] the newly-created money and collect interest on that funny-money. Tax-payers are, of course, the ones paying the interest.
"Calling the interest "dividends", Dan Atkinson reports that British taxpayers have already paid the Bank of England 12 billion Pounds on debt/money created since the start of the Quantitative Easing program.
"Governments would go a long way toward becoming solvent by repudiating all the funny-money debts created by central bank book-keeping entry. At least in the United States, the Constitution gives the Congress and Executive full power to issue the nation's money. No bank intermediary, such as the Federal Reserve, is needed to lend money."
Such a Debt Repudiation is not unprecedented in the U.S. President John F. Kennedy embarked on a similar course when he ordered the U.S. Treasury to issue U.S. Notes which were competitive with the Federal Reserve Notes/Debt issued by the private for-profit Fed. After President Kennedy was assassinated a few months later, the U.S. Notes disappeared from circulation.
Given all the foregoing, it is understandable that The Cartel will go to great lengths (as in this week's Precious Metals Takedown) to destroy pro-Precious Metals and pro-Tangibles Sentiment.
To consider how all the foregoing is likely to play out see our Forecasts as well as the 3 Takedown Antidotes we suggest, in our June Letter, "3 Takedown Antidotes with Great Profit Potential; 2nd Half 2012 Forecasts: Gold, Silver, Equities, Crude Oil, U.S. Dollar/Euro, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates" in Deepcaster's 'Letter Archives' at deepcaster.com. One Takedown Antidote is referred to in Note 2 below.
Fourth, virtually all important Markets and not just the Precious Metals Market are victims of Cartel (See Note 1) Fed/Government Manipulation.
The Markets Manipulation has become so blatant and pervasive that even Establishment Notable Jim Grant (Grant's Interest Rate Observer) was recently moved to describe the extent of the Manipulation.
"…The world in which we invest is a world of immense wall to wall manipulations by our friends in Washington. And people get off on Goldman Sachs because it has done this and this, it is pulling wires...The Federal Reserve is the giant squid of squids, it is the vampire squid of vampire squids."
"They - the vampire squids - have manipulated virtually every single price and valuation in the capital markets. People ought to recognize when they invest that one of the unspoken risks is the risk that this hall of mirrors, this Barnum and Bailey world that the Fed has created for us is going to vanish one day because they will not be able to hold it any more... It's not as if there is nothing to do in investing, but one must always keep in mind that the valuations that we see, that the prices that we watch flicker across the tape are prices that are fundamentally manipulated by these well-intended, dangerous people in Washington called the Federal Reserve"."
"The Federal Reserve Is The Vampire Squid Of Vampire Squids"
Jim Grant, 5/3/12, via Bloomberg
And the Financial System Mismanagement is not limited to The U.S. Fed.
Marc Faber aptly characterized the Eurozone's Financial Managers
"The bureaucrats in Brussels are completely useless Functionaries…who seek only to keep their power."
Marc Faber, Bloomberg Interview, 05/10/2012
In sum, successful Investors in the second half, 2012, will need to consider the four aforementioned Realities in order to make accurate Forecasts and thus Identify Profitable Opportunities.
Best regards,
May 11, 2012
Note 1: *Shadowstats.com calculates Key Statistics the way they were calculated in the 1980s and 1990s before Official Data Manipulation began in earnest. Consider
Bogus Official Numbers vs. Real Numbers (per Shadowstats.com) Annual U.S. Consumer Price Inflation reported January 19, 2012 2.96% / 10.57% (annualized December, 2011 Rate) U.S. Unemployment reported February 3, 2012 8.3% / 22.5% U.S. GDP Annual Growth/Decline reported January 27, 2012 1.56% / -2.70% U.S. M3 reported February 13, 2012 (Month of December, Y.O.Y.) No Official Report / 3.87%
And Official Source Disinformation continues, consider Shadowstats comments on the January 6, 2012 release of U.S. Employment data:
"The reported seasonally-adjusted 200,000 jobs surge in December 2011 payrolls included a false, seasonally-adjusted gain of roughly 42,000 in the "Couriers and Messengers" category. That gain was an artifact of the seasonal-adjustment process and will remove itself in the January 2012 numbers.
"The problem is that this 42,000 gain is part of a seasonal pattern that fully reverses itself each January…"
"December Payroll Seasonal-Adjustment Problem"
www.shadowstats.com, John Williams, 1/6/12
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"The Fed doesn't have a clue about markets or economics. They are dangerous people. Printing money is not good for the world and will lead to more problems for the world…. "What the Federal Reserve is doing now is ruining an entire class of investors." Jim Rogers, Bloomberg Interview, 6/29/11 We are not so Negative about the Near-Term Prospects for Nominal Asset Price Growth in Certain Sectors as we were six months or a year ago. That is mainly because the E.U., Mega-Banks, and the Fed, have already de facto launched a Massive Quantitative Easing 3, with more likely to come. This QE will serve as a Major Force impelling (but not necessarily successfully) Nominal Asset Prices UP in certain Sectors, for example, for Equities. But before one becomes too enthusiastic about the Prospects one should consider the implications of our Forecast for Nominal Assets Prices Strength in certain Sectors. The practice of issuing Bogus (U.S. and other Key official) Inflation figures obscures the Fact that Monetary Inflation (generated mainly by reckless Q.E.) is very rapidly depreciating the purchasing Power of most Fiat Currencies – by about 11% per year in the U.S. e.g. (per shadowstats.com).
Our High Yield Portfolio is aimed at achieving Total Return in excess of Real Inflation. Stocks in that Portfolio with Recent Yields of 18.5%, 8.6%, 10.6%, 26%, 6.7%, 8%, 10.6%, 10% and 15.6% when they were added to the Portfolio.
Also important to note is that, while massive Q.E. is a Major Inflationary Force tending to pump up Prices in certain sectors, there are Powerful Deflationary forces operating as well – the depreciating Housing Markets in the U.S. and China come to mind. Real Estate in some areas in China is down over 25%, but Food prices are up 9% year over year. The key to identifying The Great Opportunities (and Great Potential Losses) is knowing which Sectors will likely have Inflating Asset Prices and which will have Deflating ones. Investors failing to Evaluate Inflation/Deflation Prospects on a Sector by Sector Basis will have missed Great Opportunities and fallen into a Dangerous Trap. Deepcaster's Letter --"A Great Opportunity and A Dangerous Trap; Forecasts: Gold, Silver, Equities, Crude Oil, U.S. Dollar, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates; February Letter" -- posted in the 'Latest Letter & Archives' Cache at www.deepcaster.com, identifies which Sectors will likely be helped (albeit temporarily) by this Massive QE3 and which will likely be hurt, and provides Forecasts for all. And in his March Letter, "The Pause Before The Great Bull; 3 Buy Recos! Forecasts: Gold, Silver, Equities, Crude Oil, U.S. Dollar/Euro, U.S. T-Notes, T- Bonds, & Interest Rates, March Letter", Deepcaster makes 3 Buy Recommendations designed for Protection and Profit.


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Dana-Farber's Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program offers advanced genetic tests to determine individuals' risk for inherited forms of cancer, including breast, ovarian, stomach, and colon cancer, as well as GIST and Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. We also provide patient education and work with clinicians to monitor, diagnose, and in many cases prevent cancer.
Cancer is not usually an inherited disease. In some families with a history of certain types of cancer, however, people may inherit abnormal genes that place them at greater risk of developing the disease.
Scientists have identified several defective or mutated genes that increase the potential of developing cancers of the breast, ovaries, colon, and prostate, as well as a variety of rare cancers. Patients can now be tested to determine whether they carry any of these inherited mutations.
If inherited abnormalities are found, the information may help individuals and their physicians take steps to detect cancer at its earliest stages, when it is most treatable, or prevent it altogether. If mutations aren't found, this news can be a relief to people who have worried about their cancer risk.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program offers advanced genetic tests to determine whether individuals are at risk for inherited forms of cancer. We also educate patients about cancer risk and its implications for themselves and family members. Working with referring physicians, we design individualized programs for monitoring patients for the earliest signs of cancer, diagnosing it if it occurs, and, in many cases, preventing it from arising.
If you or your doctor thinks that you are at high risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer, we can create a personalized program to estimate your risk as accurately as possible, and will work with you, your physicians, and nurse practitioners to lower your risk.
For those at high risk of developing cancer of the colon, stomach, pancreas, or esophagus, we can help you evaluate your situation and take specific steps to lower your risk.
GIST is a rare cancer that may run in a small number of families. By looking at the genes of people with GIST, we hope to learn more about inherited forms of GIST and how best to monitor individuals at high genetic risk.
This study will collect information on personal cancer history and family history, as well as blood and tissue specimens from patients and family members with Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
While all women are at risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer over their lifetimes, some women have an extra risk, often because of factors beyond their control.
You may face a higher risk of breast or ovarian cancer if your first pregnancy came at a late age or if your menstrual cycles began at an early age. You may also have an elevated risk if your blood levels of female hormones remain high after menopause, or if you used hormone replacement therapy for a long period of time after menopause.
If you have close relatives who developed breast and/or ovarian cancer at young ages, you may have an increased risk as well, especially if you or a relative carries a breast/ovarian cancer gene.
Unfortunately, it is also possible to develop breast and/or ovarian cancer without having any of the above risk factors. For this reason, we recommend that all women follow established recommendations for breast health: regular exercise, maintenance of healthy body weight, minimal alcohol intake, and regular monitoring and screening as recommended by age. These offer the best chance of keeping cancer risk at a minimum.
The Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program can help you understand of your own risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. A realistic understanding can help you plan how you want to manage that risk.
You may have a predisposition to develop breast or ovarian cancer if:
If you or your doctor thinks you are at high risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer, the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program can create a personalized program to estimate your risk as accurately as possible and work with you, your physicians and nurse practitioners to lower your risk as much as possible.
This begins with a cancer risk evaluation, where you will meet with a genetic counselor and a physician to discuss your family's history of cancer. Surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, and social workers are also available to talk with you and your family. One goal of this evaluation is to help you learn what steps you can take to lower your risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
Any plan for lowering cancer risk must include cancer screening, which can help find cancer early. The staff at the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program can help you determine which types of cancer screening tests are best for you, and how often you should be screened.
Genetic testing can be an important part of finding genetic markers that could dramatically increase the risk of cancer. Learning whether or not you carry a genetic mutation may influence how, how often, and when you and your family begin cancer screenings.
You may have the opportunity to take part in clinical trials. These studies examine the best ways to prevent breast and ovarian cancers, as well as methods to help detect these cancers early, when treatment is most effective. Other studies seek to understand the factors that influence when a cancer might develop.
Here are some of the breast and ovarian cancer studies currently underway at the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program at Dana-Farber.
This study aims to learn more about the effectiveness of lapatinib for the treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ breast cancer (DCIS).
Lapatinib has been approved by the FDA for use in treatment of advanced breast cancer. It remains an investigational drug for the treatment of women with DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ). We do not yet know if it is useful or safe as a chemopreventive agent for DCIS.
The main purpose of this study is to determine if lapatinib inhibits the growth of ductal cell carcinoma (DCIS). In addition, the research study aims to measure the good and bad effects of the study drug lapatinib at 1,000 mg a day when compared to a placebo (inactive pill).
Women age 21 or older who are DCIS positive for either EGFR or erbB2 (or both) will be considered for enrollment.
After you have signed the consent form, tests will be done before you begin taking study drug and 5 days prior to your surgery.
These tests include:
You will be randomized (a 50/50 chance) to take either Lapatinib or a placebo (inactive pill) daily for 2-6 weeks before your breast cancer surgery.
This is a 2-6 week study where patients are given either lapatinib in one of three doses or placebo before their breast cancer surgery.
Carleen Gentry, email@example.com
The purpose of this research study is to have a better understanding of the process of cancer development in BRCA 1 and 2 mutation carriers and other high-risk individuals.
In this research study we will collect tissue from individuals who are at a high risk of developing cancer, and compare the findings to tissue obtained from individuals at average risk. We hope that by looking at the tissue of individuals with predisposing genes, we can have a better understanding of the process of cancer development in BRCA 1 and 2 mutation carriers and other high-risk individuals. With this information, we hope to better identify carriers whose short-term risk of breast cancer is much higher, which would allow better timing of risk-reducing interventions.
This research study is designed to gather personal medical/health information, breast tissue samples, and skin tissue samples from participants. After collection of this information, your participation in the study ends.
Kristen firstname.lastname@example.com, option 4617-632-6129
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic (risk-reducing or preventive) surgery among women with a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer.
The primary purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of prophylactic surgery among women with a family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer, and who may be at high risk of developing cancer themselves. We will also be looking at other factors that may influence risk of breast and ovarian cancer in high-risk women, including lifestyle factors like birth control pills, or smoking and alcohol use. The study has already produced important information that is used in advising women about these very difficult decisions.
We hope that women will agree to be followed for five years.
A questionnaire is mailed once a year for five years. The average time to complete each questionnaire is 10 to 15 minutes.
Susan firstname.lastname@example.com, option 3617-632-6693
This study aims to create a resource bank that will help researchers to better understand breast and ovarian cancer risk, and develop new breakthroughs in prevention and treatment.
The REACH project collects risk factor information, blood and tissue specimens from patients and family members at high risk for breast and/or ovarian cancer. The data and specimen bank will be used as a resource to be shared with researchers working in the areas of breast and ovarian cancer risk, prevention and treatment.
Individuals with an increased risk of breast cancer are eligible. You are eligible to join the study if you meet any of the following criteria:
One-time, approximately 30 minutes to fill out the questionnaire and have your blood drawn.
Susan firstname.lastname@example.com
This study looks at the relationship between vitamin D and the reduction of breast cancer risk.
In this research study, we are comparing the effects (good and bad) of taking vitamin D supplements every day for one year with those of taking placebo (inactive pill) every day for one year on several "biomarkers" of breast cancer risk. We are testing the effects of vitamin D on these "biomarkers" because some research studies show that vitamin D may protect against breast cancer.
This study is for pre-menopausal women who have expressed an interest in reducing their risk of developing breast cancer.
After you have signed the consent form, tests will be done before you begin taking vitamin D and at the end of the study.
You will be randomized (a 50/50 chance) to take either vitamin D (2000 IUs) or a placebo (inactive pill) daily for one year.
This is a one-year study.
Carleen Gentry, MA, firstname.lastname@example.com
This study is being conducted by Dr. Jennifer Ligibel to see if we can measure changes that occur in breast tissue when women at risk of developing breast cancer start an exercise program.
Research show that women, who exercise regularly, are less likely to develop breast cancer, but there in not very much information explaining how exercise could affect breast cells in a way to prevent cancer from occurring.
This study is for pre-menopausal women, who are at increased risk of developing breast cancer.
After you have signed the consent form, tests will be done before you begin the study.
After these tests have been done, an exercise physiologist will work with you to design an individual exercise program that will help you gradually increase your activity level to 220 minutes of exercise per week. You will be required to participate in two supervised exercise sessions per week with an exercise physiologist for six weeks. In addition, you will be asked to exercise on your own up to an additional 120 minutes each week. At the end of the six week exercise intervention, you will undergo blood tests and a RPFNA.
This study is a six week study.
Laura firstname.lastname@example.com
In order to help us make the most detailed assessment possible of your risk for breast or ovarian cancer, we ask that you provide us with as much of your personal and family health history as possible at your first appointment.
A completed Pedigree Form detailing your family's health history.
All relevant medical records. Find out how to obtain your medical record.
If you feel comfortable asking for your relatives' help in collecting their medical records, please send the above document to any relatives who have had breast or ovarian cancer (or their next of kin).
Family members can either send the records to you (if they do, please bring a copy to your appointment), or they can mail them directly to us at:
Attn: Fatiana CardosoCancer Genetics and Prevention ProgramDana-Farber Cancer Institute450 Brookline AvenueBoston, MA 02215
It helps if they indicate whose relative they are when sending records. We'll use this information to assess your family history.
Hannah Green, email@example.com
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteCenter for Cancer Genetics and Prevention450 Brookline AvenueMS 1068Boston, MA 02215
Daniel Cramer, MD, ScD (gynecologist)Judy E. Garber, MD, MPH (medical oncologist)Junne Kamihara, MD (pediatrics)Beth Overmoyer, MD (medical oncologist)Huma Rana, MD (geneticist)Rochelle Scheib, MD (medical oncologist)Daniel Silver, MD, PhD (medical oncologist)
Andrea Farkas Patenaude, PhD (clinical psychologist)
Rhonda Grealish, RN, BSNHolly O'Kane, RN, NP
Emily Brown, MS, LGCAnu Chittenden, LGCCarly Grant, LGCClaire Healy, LGCElaine Hiller, LGCShelley McCormick, LGCIrene Rainville, PhD, LGCJaclyn Schienda, LGCKatherine Schneider, MPH, LGC
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Carleen Gentry, MA , CCRPResearch Project email@example.com
Maja Krsmanovic, BSClinical Research email@example.com
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Cancer can occur for a variety of reasons, but some people have a higher risk because they have inherited a genetic susceptibility to it. In such families, a faulty gene associated with cancer is passed down from one generation to the next.
Gastrointestinal tumors include cancers of the colon, stomach, pancreas, and esophagus. There may be an inherited tendency to develop these diseases if:
This clinical prediction algorithm was designed for healthcare professionals to estimate the cumulative and individual probabilities that an individual is an MLH1, MSH2, or MSH6 mutation carrier.
If you think that you have a high risk of developing a gastrointestinal cancer, the Dana-Farber Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program can help you create a personalized program to lower your risk.
It begins with a cancer risk evaluation, where you will meet with a genetic counselor and a doctor who specializes in cancers that can be inherited. They will talk with you about your family's history of cancer and what this means. Surgeons, oncologists, radiologists, and social workers are also available to talk with you and your family.
One goal of this evaluation is to help you learn what steps you can take to lower your risk of developing a gastrointestinal cancer.
If you are at risk for developing a gastrointestinal cancer, there are several ways for you to take control, including:
Any plan for lowering cancer risk must include cancer screening, which can help find cancer early or even prevent it entirely. The staff at the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program can help you determine which types of cancer screenings are best for you, and how often you should have them.
Genetic testing is available and can be an important part of finding gene changes that could dramatically increase a person's risk of cancer. Knowing whether or not you carry a problem gene may influence how and when you and your family should have cancer screenings.
The Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program offers the opportunity to take part in clinical trials. These are studies that examine the best ways to prevent inherited gastrointestinal cancers and how to find these cancers early on, when treatment is most effective.
The following gastrointestinal cancer studies are being run through the Cancer Genetics and Prevention Program at Dana-Farber.
The purpose of the Families Affected with Colon and Endometrial cancers is to investigate the genetic basis of hereditary colon cancer predisposition syndromes, correlate them with the clinical presentations, with the ultimate goal of prevention of cancer in such families.
Any of the following individuals would be eligible to enroll in the study:
The current study is an ongoing registry, and we would need to continue the study for an indefinite period of time, since new genes and risk factors may be identified in the forthcoming years. However, once enrolled in the study, in general, you do not need to do anything active to continue to participate.
To enroll in the study, individuals would first need to review and sign a consent form for participating in the study and release of medical information, and provide information about the cancers in their family. In addition, the only other thing that would be required at the time of enrollment is a blood sample. This can be arranged as a clinic visit here at Dana-Farber, or, in some cases, the consent form and the blood kit can be mailed to the individuals, and then they can be mailed back to us in the self-addressed prepaid envelope provided.
Chinedu UkaegbuPhone: firstname.lastname@example.com
The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate proteins and genes in the stool, blood, urine and/or tissue that can detect colon cancer as early, or earlier than colonoscopy, and may indicate the presence or increased risk of developing colon polyps or colon cancer.
Colon cancer is preventable if it is caught in its precancerous or earliest stages. Although current screening tests such as flexible sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies have proven effective in helping to prevent colon cancer, many people do not undergo these screening procedures, and consequently, most colon cancers are not discovered until it is too late. If another reliable and accurate method were successfully developed to test for colon polyps and colon cancer, it would enable us to more effectively screen for and treat colon cancer.
To be eligible for this study, participants must be:
You will be asked to participate for about 6-9 months. All subjects will have one or two visits, which should last approximately 45-60 minutes.
Study coordinatorMargery Rosenblatt, email@example.com 3354
The PAncreatic Cancer GEnes Study (PAGES) is an ongoing study at Dana-Farber created to advance pancreatic cancer research. Researchers on this project are particularly interested in identifying susceptibility genes for pancreatic cancer and to learn whether these genes manifest through exposure to cigarette smoking.
The result of this study will be the identification of the gene(s) that predispose to pancreatic cancer, which will lead to better screening and prevention methods in the future.
As part of this study, we are comparing genetic characteristics from blood and tissue samples collected from individuals who have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and the blood and tissue of their family members. Secondly, we will also study responses to a survey questionnaire about family history and lifestyle.
Dana-Farber is part of a consortium of sites across the U.S. and Canada collectively known as the Pancreatic Cancer Genetic Epidemiology (PACGENE) consortium. In addition to Dana-Farber, members of this consortium include the Mayo Clinic, John Hopkins University, M.D. Anderson, Creighton University, Karmanos Cancer Institute, and University of Toronto/Mount Sinai Hospital. Work on this project is funded by the National Cancer Institute.
Individuals with first-degree blood relatives who have had pancreatic cancer are at a significantly higher risk of getting the disease than someone with no family history of pancreatic cancer. This risk is even higher when there have been multiple cases of pancreatic cancer within a family. There is evidence of a genetic basis to pancreatic cancer. By knowing this hereditary factor we will be able to increase our understanding of the disease, screening and prevention methods.
Patient confidentiality is of the utmost importance at Dana-Farber. All information we have about each participant, including the blood sample, will be kept entirely confidential. This information will be provided to others only with the individual's written permission. Being part of, or choosing not to be part of a study, will in no way affect health care or treatment at Dana-Farber or appear on health insurance records. Participation is entirely voluntary and participants may request to be taken out of the study at any point.
Pancreatic Cancer Action NetworkThe Lustgarten Foundation (foundation for pancreatic cancer research)Johns Hopkins University Pancreas Web site
If you wish to participate or learn more about the study, please contact either:
Sapna Syngal MD, MPHPrincipal InvestigatorPhone: 617-632-5022Fax: 617-632-4088
Chinedu Ukaegbu, MBBS, MPHProject ManagerPhone: 617-632-6355Fax: 617-632-3161
CAPS is a review of prevention approaches for pancreatic cancer screening.
Participants who are considered high risk for pancreatic cancer due to a family history or genetic mutation undergo genetic counseling and pancreatic screening. The study aims to find the best and most sensitive screening modality among a variety of techniques.
Project IRIS was created to explore issues involving genetic testing and how it affects the way in which individuals and their families use genetic information in their lives.
The study focuses on:
All individuals who are planning to undergo genetic testing for inherited risk of breast, ovarian, colon or other gastrointestinal (digestive system) cancers are eligible to participate in IRIS.
IRIS is questionnaire study. We ask participants to complete a questionnaire:
Margery email@example.com
The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about specific proteins and genes found in the blood, urine and tissue of patients who have been diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus. By following patients and obtaining samples over time, these proteins and genes may indicate the progression of Barrett's esophagus to esophageal cancer.
There is limited knowledge about the way Barrett's esophagus behaves and why some cases progress to cancer and more often, why it does not. By conducting a long-term study of people with Barrett's esophagus, we will be able to can learn more about how the condition develops over time.
You will be part of the study for the day of the endoscopic procedure, and for each endoscopic procedure up to five years, unless you have progressed to low or high-grade dysplasia or esophageal cancer.
Individuals who are found to carry a BRCA or Lynch syndrome-related gene mutation can invite family members to view a website that contains information about the genetic syndrome and how this could impact their health.
Family members who participate are asked to view the website and complete a short survey. The purpose of this study is to determine whether individuals find this method of communication more helpful than traditional methods.
Claire Healy, MS, CGC orMonica Dandapani, MS, CGC617-632-4363
In order to help us make the most detailed assessment possible of your risk for gastrointestinal cancer, we ask that you provide us with as much of your personal and family health history as possible at your first appointment.
Please bring the following information to your first appointment:
If you feel comfortable asking for your relatives' help in collecting their medical records, please send the above document, along with the sample request letter, to any relatives who have had breast or ovarian cancer (or their next of kin).
Attn: Fatiana CardosoGastrointestinal Cancer Genetics and Prevention ProgramDana-Farber Cancer Institute450 Brookline AvenueBoston, MA 02215
Please also bring to your first appointment:
You or your primary physician can send or fax these items to the address listed below. Please call the clinic office to ensure that all materials have arrived in advance of your appointment.
Gastrointestinal Cancer Genetics and Prevention ProgramDana-Farber Cancer Institute450 Brookline AvenueBoston, MA 02215Phone: 617-632-2178Fax: 617-632-3715
Joel Goldberg, MD (surgeon)Ramona Lim, MD (gastroenterologist)Huma Rana, MD (geneticist)Sapna Syngal, MD, MPH (gastroenterologist)Matthew Yurgelun, MD (medical oncologist)
Margaret Klehm, RN, MPH, MSN, FNP
Victoriana Curry, BAClinical Research firstname.lastname@example.com
Denesia Parris, MPHClinical Research firstname.lastname@example.com
Margery Rosenblatt, MAResearch Project firstname.lastname@example.com
Chinedu Ukaegbu, MBBS, MPHResearch Project email@example.com
Project FLAG is a research study to learn more about gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) that may run in families, also known as hereditary GIST. Since only a small number of families with hereditary GIST have been described in the medical literature, not much is known about hereditary GIST. If you have a diagnosis of GIST and are 18 years or older, whether or not you have any cancer in your family, you are eligible for FLAG.
The goals of Project FLAG are to:
You can join Project FLAG if:
What is involved?
You MAY be asked to:
For more information about Project FLAG visit www.projectflag.org or contact Project FLAG's Study Manager:Elizabeth Root800-828-6622, option firstname.lastname@example.com
In this video, George Demetri, MD and Suzanne George, MD describe the aims of Project FLAG and explain how patients with GIST can get involved.
The purpose of the Li-Fraumeni Syndrome (LFS) registry study is to collect information on personal cancer history, family history, and blood and tissue specimens from patients and family members with Li-Fraumeni syndrome. The registry will be a repository of data and specimens available for researchers who are working to understand the genetic basis, prevention and treatment of Li-Fraumeni syndrome.
All individuals who have the rare inherited Li-Fraumeni Syndrome, or are part of a family with LFS, are eligible to participate in the study.
The Li-Fraumeni syndrome registry is a questionnaire study. You will be asked to complete a questionnaire and a Family History Form. You will be asked to donate three tubes of blood (approximately six tablespoons) for use in research.
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