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Two men died Tuesday in a three-alarm high-rise fire in the South Shore neighborhood, a Chicago Fire Department spokeswoman said.
The fire, which began about 8:40 a.m. on the seventh floor of 6730 S. South Shore Drive, sent three people to hospitals in critical condition. Two of those victims died — one in his 30s and the other in his 40s, the Medical Examiner's Office said.
When the fire alarm bells began clanging Tuesday morning, Bridgitti Knox's first thought was to flee her 16th-floor unit.
Knox knew better than to try to take the elevator during the fire. So she headed for the stairwell — only to find it getting smokier and smokier as she made her way down.
"I didn't think I was going to make it out from the smoke," Knox, 55, told the Chicago Sun-Times.
Knox was among the lucky ones. The fire was extinguished about 45 minutes after it began.
Knox was in the first-floor lobby thankful that she made it out without injury.
"I walked 16 flights. It was very scary. There was a lot of smoke in the stairway," said Knox, who covered her mouth with her hand on the way down. The smoke was thickest on the seventh, eighth and ninth floors, she said.
On the ninth floor, she heard a voice calling up from below.
"'Is anyone up there?!' I said, 'Yes,' and then he came up, took my hand and pulled me the rest of the way down," Knox said.
Unlike Knox, Christopher and Jewel Brooks remained in their 14th—floor unit until firefighters came to their door.
The couple heard the alarm and hesitated while they tried to figure out whether it was a false alarm. Then they saw smoke in the hallway.
Drawing on training from his job in high-rise construction, Christopher Brooks persuaded his wife to place wet towels in front of the door and open a window while they waited for firefighters in their bedroom. During the 30- to 45-minute wait, Christopher Brooks explained to her what was happening to calm her nerves.
"It was a lot of panic," Jewel Brooks said.
"She trusted me, so that was good," Christopher Brooks said.
During the fire, other residents could be seen on their balconies, wrapped in winter coats and scarves. Some could later be seen escorted away by firefighters. Displaced residents gathered in a nearby warming bus.
Two of the victims were taken to University of Chicago Hospitals, and another was taken to Jackson Park Hospital.
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Who's your favorite sports team, and why?
Maryland Terrapins! I went to Maryland, College Park undergrad, and my freshman year we won the NCAA Tournament. I was friends with the guys in the team, and being a part of such a devout, passionate fan base and such an amazing time in our University's history was amazing. I was hooked!
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"This is the best bad idea we have sir" - Argo
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What's your best party trick?
The Dollar Store!
What's the most memorable pick-up line you've ever heard?
"I don't believe we were properly introduced..."
What's the worst job you've ever had?
I loved all my jobs because they all played a part in shaping who I am today and served as steps up to me starting my own law firm. But I didn't particularly enjoyed working at a gift store in Bethesda where I had to also vaccum the store.
What's the most dangerous thing you've ever done?
All my dangerous things involved my driving (I always wanted yo be a Formula 1 race car driver)
It's 4AM after a crazy night out – what are we eating?
Sushi - if we find a sushi place open that late...if not, then whatever we can get.
What's the strangest thing in your fridge right now?
Lactobacillus pills, haha
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Do I really have to answer that?
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Belly showing spaghetti straps. I have the nicest belly EVER and a nice top to go with it.
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ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - The Georgia Lady Bulldogs are motivated to avoid another early exit from the NCAA tournament.
They're still feeling the sting of last year's rare first-round loss to Marist. Georgia's long tournament history includes 19 trips to the round of 16.
Georgia is the No. 4 seed - just like last year - and plays Montana on Saturday in Spokane, Wash.
Lady Bulldogs forward Jasmine Hassell says last year's loss was "heart-breaking because you're so used to going to the Sweet 16."
This is the Lady Bulldogs 19th straight NCAA tournament and coach Andy Landers says any temptation to look past the first-round game should have been "self-corrected" by last year's loss. It was only the third time in the last decade Georgia didn't reach the round of 16.
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It's considered the Holy Grail of comic books: Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, featuring the debut of Superman.
Contractor David Gonzales found one mixed in with old newspapers insulating a wall in a house he was renovating in a small town in Minnesota. The home was built the year the comic was published.
Gonzalez said the comic stood out to him so he did some research that confirmed the comic was valuable.
Turns out the comic could have been worth more. He got into a heated discussion with a relative about its value, and the back cover got ripped.
Because of the damage, New York-based online auctioneer ComicConnect.com graded the book a 1.5 on a 10-point scale. By comparison, an Action Comics No. 1 that was graded a 9 recently fetched $2.16 million.
According to the auction site, in the past, Gonzalez has made it a habit of leaving a quarter or dollar bill behind walls he's renovated, thinking that sometime in the future, someone will find his "treasure" and wonder who put it there.
But the Superman comic was the "hidden treasure" in the walls of the first home he'd ever purchased and renovated on his own.
Bidding on Gonzales' find was up to $127,000 as of Friday. Bidding will close June 11.
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Microsoft Research has had a long history of looking at bringing static images to life. A few months back MSR released an app called BLINK for WP8 and recently Cliplets for Windows 8. Cliplets reanimates a portion of a scene based on user-specified regions and time intervals. The emphasis is on creative control—creating contrasting juxtapositions of frozen and dynamic content. Think of the dynamic (animated) images in the newspapers shown in the Harry Potter films. Or the Nokia Cinemagraph the app, same basic concept. All these apps output .gif files. With today's mobile devices, users can find shooting high-definition video as easy as snapping a photograph. That should mean, before long, that preserving and sharing bursts of video might become as commonplace as the current practice of exchanging still images. The MSR research project aims to captures a spectrum of looping videos with varying levels of dynamism, ranging from a static image to ...Read More →
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The unemployment rate in the U.S. is down since last year, but many Americans are still without a job. Many unemployed workers are in their 50s and 60s -- too young to retire and sometimes considered too old to get re-hired.
Researchers at Boston College are now calling them the "new unemployables" -- workers in their 50s finding it almost impossible to find a job.
Older workers who were laid off during the recession are losing jobs to younger colleagues. In fact, a new study shows those looking for work in their 50s are 20 percent less likely to become re-hired than workers between the ages of 25 to 34.
"A lot of the new jobs that are being created are really lower wage and really more designed for people that just got out of college or high school," says Michael Hayes, Momentum Staffing.
The labor department reports the average duration of unemployment for workers between the ages of 55 to 64 is 11 months. Jesus Pena is in his 60s and out of work for almost two years now.
"There is a big pool of employees out there, a lot of them are much younger than I am, capable I don't know because I worked all my life but age is becoming a factor nowadays," says Pena.
Another problem preventing older workers from landing a job is being overqualified. They're losing lower paying jobs to those who are just starting in the workforce.
"It's kind of you're in the position of, since you've worked at one job for so long, its actually counting against you," says Hayes.
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"My background, it's a long background 25-30 years in the field. They don't know that I'm, and not saying I'm Mr. Know It All, but I'm saying if somebody can do it I can do it," says Pena.
Nearly two-thirds of unemployed workers 55 and older say they have been actively searching for jobs for over a year.
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Warren still has a long way to go to match Brown dollar for dollar – he has $12.8 million cash on hand – but she has something that Brown has lost.
She is not just her party's nominee; her candidacy is a cause for liberals nationwide.
When Scott Brown was running against Martha Coakley, that's the status he had. Conservative activists had one shot to take away Senate support for Obamacare, and nationwide they rallied to him. Hard as it is to believe now, they were so excited by Brown they even began talking him up as a potential presidential nominee. Since then, Brown has proven to be a moderate on many issues and has lost that national buzz..
It may be to Brown's misfortune that Warren has this "it factor" among liberals now.
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She is both a darling of and an intellectual influence behind the Occupy Wall Street movement (despite earnings that make her a member of the 1 percent). Many fervently hoped Warren would be appointed head of the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. She's collecting lots of money from liberal voters who would now like her to hold a different job: United States senator.
Warren's candidacy is the rallying point for liberals who believe Wall Street exercises too much power over the American Republic. She stands for re-regulating it, and promoting a vision of America as a commonwealth, where everyone has a stake in each other's success. Videos of Elizabeth Warren on YouTube draw a disproportionate amount of interest for a heretofore unknown Senate candidate.
Other candidates have benefitted from this phenomena of becoming the beloved mascot for their particular ideological brand.
Ron Paul in the House, and his son Rand Paul in the Senate have been opposed by the established leaders of their parties. Rand Paul faced a primary challenge from Kentucky's Secretary of State Trey Grayson, who was endorsed by Dick Cheney and a legion of Republican luminaries like Rudy Giuliani and Rick Santorum. It didn't matter. Paul's name became synonymous with insurgent Tea Party challengers, and he attracted his father's devoted following. Nearly 70 percent of his contributions came from out of state.
Warren is similarly seeing a huge surge of "out of state" contributions to her campaign.
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The Texas Rangers have identified the suspect in Monday night's police chase and shooting as 28-year-old Jose SiFuentes.
Longview police responded to reports of a small, blue four-door vehicle attempting to hit cars and run them off the road at approximately 8:30 P.M. on Monday.
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With mortgage rates at historic lows, it has many people thinking about refinancing. Cutting your mortgage payment down sounds like a good idea, but, refinancing is not for everybody. A 30-year fixed rate right now is about 3.5 percent. A 15-year fixed rate is 2.75 percent. Do you get in there and take advantage of that so that you can lower your mortgage payment? Perhaps, but to qualify you'll still need a steady income, good home value and great credit. According to Bankrate.com, you can't qualify for the low rates unless your credit score is high -- in the 700 range. This is the perfect example of why you have to work to get your score up. If you have a conventional loan, in order to refinance, your home needs to have about 20 percent equity. You cannot owe more than the home is worth. Refinancing saves you money on your monthly payment, but be aware that you have to pay closing costs. It's no deal if you don't stay in the house long enough to recover those costs, so do some math and figure out how many months of lower payments it will take to make up your closing costs.If you owe more than what your home is worth, you do have some options if your loan is owned by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. There is a program called HARP -- the Home Affordable Refinance Program. You still have to have decent credit and a steady job history, but they'll work with you. Go here for more details -- www.knowyouroptions.com
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Evening ReadingArmA II continues to impress me, especially when I fail missions only to have the game continue and add objectives to the following mission based upon my utter failure. That's some awesome gameplay right there, folks.
July is a bit of a quiet month for game releases until the end, which brings StarCraft II and BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. Now, you're probably on board for the first one. That's okay, but BB:CS is quite awesome and is a great niche fighting game to play in between streaks of Super Street Fighter IV.
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The just concluded Brown County Fair was another prime example of the value of the county fair experience in providing both a social and educational outlet for county residents. The value of the fair is to allow for a social outlet for its residents and even though in many cases the county fair is no longer one of the highlights of the summer, it does provide another option for good affordable family fun and entertainment.
Now while I mentioned that for many the fair may not be the highlight of their summer, it is high on the priority list for those young 4-H and FFA members who exhibit at the fair. And it is also a very important event to their parents who realize the benefits provided through the junior fair project areas.
The county fair also plays an important role for rural Wisconsin and the states agricultural industry as it serves as a training ground for future ag and community leaders.
This years record attendance at the Brown County Fair also showed that when you give people good affordable entertainment and a great venue to take the family, plus you have near ideal weather people will come out and enjoy the great traditions of the county fair.
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Thanks to all for your thick vibes - I am up to 7mm today!!! Won't have the b/w results until tonight, but my lining is looking good and I have 3 right-side follies over 1cm with a couple right behind, and 1 on the left over 1cm with another right behind!!! I was so disappointed with the number of antral follicles on CD3 - way off what I'd had during IUI cycles, presumably from being oversuppressed by the Lupron. Feels like I am catching up now, though. To those of you who were monitored on or around CD8, remind me how many follies and what sizes you had? I need a reality check. Thanks, girls!
So, DH and I were talking the other night about what we're telling, when and to whom. We have a few people who know of our struggles, but only one couple (who also struggled) knows that we're now cycling. We decided to do a blog, which will allow us to update people with the info we want to share, when we're ready to share it. Pretty excited about it, actually! Just wondering how you all are handling people on this topic?
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PS2 Compatibility 'Not Coming Back' to PlayStation 3The ability to play PlayStation 2 games on a PlayStation 3--supported in the first iterations of the hardware but removed in later revisions--will not be coming back, Sony hardware marketing director John Koller has definitively stated.
"[Backwards compatibility] won't be returning," Koller told Ars Technica while discussing the PlayStation 3 hardware, which just received a lower price point and a redesigned, slimmer aesthetic. "It's not coming back, so let me put that on the table."
"It's not as big as a purchase intent driver as you may be hearing," he explained. "We've got such a substantial lineup of titles on the PS3; most people are buying the PS3 for PS3 games. They've buying it for PS3 games and Blu-ray movies."
In a separate chat with Kotaku, Koller added that "most consumers that are purchasing the PS3 cite PS3 games as a primary [reason]...it's well into the 80 or 90 percentile range who are purchasing it for PS3 [games]. We do know that there are next gen consumers wanting to come over the the PS3. Most of those are consumers who have not utilized their PS2 for a little while and they're ready to jump into the PlayStation 3."
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DETROIT – I love a clown. Who the hell doesn't?
I love them except when they're running government.
And increasingly, that's what I'm see when it comes to governance Detroit and Wayne County: a circus with the tent of fire.
Consider this: the state Financial Advisory Board met this week to discuss Detroit's financial future. The new fiscal year starts Sunday. But, unbelievably I when I went there, I saw nobody of prominence from the Mayor's office, the City Council or the Wayne County Executive's suite.
With crime out of control, arsonists on the loose and an EMS system on life support, it's obvious that our leaders have no plan -- and a suspect work ethic.
Mayor Bing promised a business-like approach when he took office more than three years ago. Public safety, he continues to promise -- is his number one priority.
But what has he really done? Drawn a red-line straight through the budgets. That's it. No analysis. No Efficiencies. Cuts. Now we will have 200 less cops than last year and 100 less firefighters. And who is his man in charge of public safety? Kirk Lewis, the former chief of Bing's failed steel company. Sheesh.
Then there is Wayne County CEO Bob Ficano. Detroit remember is the county seat of Wayne County. We have now learned that the county's pension plan is only half-funded, brought down in part by Bob's sweetheart retirement gifts for his friends. Ficano blames the stock market downturn of 2008. But nobody seems to have told Bob that the market has gained back almost all those loses.
Ficano's deficit elimination plan is so murky and based on so much fuzzy math, that the state had to hire an accounting firm to make sense of it.
Then there is City Council President Charles Pugh. He has said more than once that cuts to public safety could make things more efficient. He can't say how. Maybe that's because he's been busy writing and directing: first a 45-minute video on how to get 6-pack abs and then flaming some poor intern on Twitter after the kid rightly criticized Pugh for his lack of priorities.
Which brings me to Kriss Andrews: he's the guy were paying $220,000 to be the shadow mayor – aka the program manager of Detroit – under its consent agreement with the state. His been hiding in his badger hole out in Novi trying to come up with a believable scenario as to how he can save a bankrupt city when he headed a private company that just went into bankruptcy. Hopefully, he's working from home.
So who's leading us out of this? Increasingly it looks like nobody. Even a circus needs a ring master.
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A team of three Minden women recently competed in the Rouge-Orleans relay race.
The 126.2 mile continuous race was run along Mississippi River levee from Baton Rouge to New Orleans. Team members included Susan Hunter, Dr. Erin Soleto and Shelley Christy. The ladies call their team Hot Legs Racing, and their pit crew were their husbands, Don Hunter, Bob Gilliam and Jay Christy.
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Ran across this little food tidbit and used in on the show with a listener in our "Beat The Toaster" segment.
This week, a celebrity (unknown), will be the first person to eat a hamburger made entirely out of meat grown in a lab. The 5 ounce synthetic hamburger will make it's debut at a culinary festival in London.
Yes, it appears the era of the test tube burger may be upon us.
If this is practical, it could provide an infinite number of possibilities for feeding a growing, hungry world while preserving animal life and perhaps natural resources, too. I'm really speculating here. I'm not a scientist. I just play one on radio. Rim shot here.
But what other food would be valuable to our world if it could be created in a lab, safely, rather than a slaughterhouse.
That's the question put to a listener in our "Beat the Toaster" segment with only 10 seconds to come up with five possibilities. "Chicken" was one answer. "Chicken" created in a lab. Scientists nodding at each other in the lab "Yes, tastes like chicken".
Broccoli was another answer. Now, it's a little known face, maybe known only to me, that broccolis not edible. Just because it's green and grows in the ground doesn't necessarily mean you eat it. What the world does not need is test tube broccoli.


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Cancer Stem Cells Found in Pancreatic Tumors
Researchers have detected cancer stem cells in tumors from patients with pancreatic cancer. Experiments in mice suggest that these cancer stem cells may help explain the aggressive growth and spread of pancreatic tumors seen in patients, the researchers report in the February 1 Cancer Research.
Cancer stem cells have been identified in blood, brain, and breast cancers, and more recently in ovarian and colon cancers. The new findings provide further support for the stem cell hypothesis, the theory that some tumors contain small populations of self-renewing cells that give rise to all of the cells in the tumor. Read more
DCLG's Status Enhanced Under Director's Office Restructuring
One of the most important changes being instituted as part of the restructuring of the NCI Office of the Director is the new direction of the Director's Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG).
DCLG is supported through the Office of Liaison Activities (to be renamed the Office of Advocacy Relations under the reorganization), which will report directly to the NCI director. As a result of that direct reporting relationship, DCLG will now be on par with the institute's other major advisory committees, the National Cancer Advisory Board, the Board of Scientific Advisors, the Board of Scientific Counselors and the Clinical Trials Advisory Committee (CTAC). Read more
Cancer Stem Cells Found in Pancreatic Tumors
Researchers have detected cancer stem cells in tumors from patients with pancreatic cancer. Experiments in mice suggest that these cancer stem cells may help explain the aggressive growth and spread of pancreatic tumors seen in patients, the researchers report in the February 1 Cancer Research.
Cancer stem cells have been identified in blood, brain, and breast cancers, and more recently in ovarian and colon cancers. The new findings provide further support for the stem cell hypothesis, the theory that some tumors contain small populations of self-renewing cells that give rise to all of the cells in the tumor.
Though cancer stem cells make up less than 5 percent of a tumor, they may underlie the cancer and be resistant to conventional treatments.
"The new research adds to the growing evidence that within tumors there is a small subset of cells that drives the tumor and that has stem cell-like characteristics," says lead researcher Dr. Diane M. Simeone of the University of Michigan Medical Center.
A defining characteristic of human cancer stem cells is the ability to grow new tumors in mice. As few as 100 pancreatic cancer stem cells could regenerate copies of the original tumor when transplanted into mice, the researchers found. Some tumors rapidly spread to other organs, as often happens in patients.
The aggressive behavior of the cells in mice is consistent with what clinicians have observed in patients with the disease, the researchers say.
Pancreatic cancer is so deadly because it is often diagnosed late and because tumors are notoriously resistant to standard chemotherapy and radiation. The disease is the 4th deadliest cancer in the United States, even though it ranks 11th in incidence.
"Cancer stem cells represent a whole new way of thinking about the disease," says Dr. Simeone. Her team has preliminary evidence that pancreatic cancer stem cells may not be touched by conventional treatment, and they will be testing this in the coming months.
The new findings will influence research on pancreatic cancer almost immediately, predicts Dr. J. Milburn Jessup of NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis.
"The study shows that it is possible to isolate the pancreatic cancer stem cell in order to investigate its properties, determine its weaknesses, and then develop therapies that target this cell," says Dr. Jessup.
Along with new therapies, new ways of evaluating these therapies may be needed. The current method of measuring tumor size would clearly be inadequate given the likelihood that a tumor would return despite shrinking.
"In the future we might need to measure the burden of cancer stem cells in tumors before and after therapies in order to establish their effectiveness," says Dr. Simeone.
Even though cancer stem cells appear to be relatively resistant to therapy, "these cells may prove to be the Achilles heel of the cancer," notes Dr. Jessup.
To identify potential pancreatic cancer stem cells, Dr. Simeone's team looked for tumor cells with three surface proteins that have been found to characterize breast cancer stem cells - CD44, CD24, and ESA. They are also testing other proteins used as potential markers for cancer stem cells.
Dr. Michael Clarke of Stanford University School of Medicine and Dr. Max Wicha, also at Michigan, led the team that identified the breast cancer stem cells in 2003. Both are co-authors of the new study.
By Edward R. Winstead
DCLG's Status Enhanced Under Director's Office Restructuring
One of the most important changes being instituted as part of the restructuring of the NCI Office of the Director is the new direction of the Director's Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG).
DCLG is supported through the Office of Liaison Activities (to be renamed the Office of Advocacy Relations under the reorganization), which will report directly to the NCI director. As a result of that direct reporting relationship, DCLG will now be on par with the institute's other major advisory committees, the National Cancer Advisory Board, the Board of Scientific Advisors, the Board of Scientific Counselors and the Clinical Trials Advisory Committee (CTAC).
Since its inception in 1997 as the first and only all-consumer NCI advisory committee (it was officially chartered as a federal advisory committee the next year), DCLG has provided invaluable guidance and feedback on a broad array of issues to NCI senior leadership.
Indeed, DCLG has been a vital representative of the entire cancer advocacy community at NCI, including, among other things, assisting in the development of training manuals for advocates participating in the peer-review process, helping elevate survivorship research as a priority in the Bypass Budget, aiding in the formulation and pilot testing of the "NCI Listens and Learns" Web site, and convening the highly successful NCI advocacy summit last summer.
DCLG will continue to provide guidance and feedback on all topics of concern to the advocacy community. However, as part of this change, I am requesting that DCLG pay particular attention to three critical issues that will benefit immensely from a greater consumer perspective: 1) minority recruitment and patient outreach, 2) cancer care delivery, and 3) eliminating cancer health disparities.
In the area of minority recruitment and patient outreach, DCLG will play a critical role in helping NCI improve recruitment to clinical trials, particularly among minority groups, who continue to be underrepresented in these important investigations. DCLG has already taken an important step down this path, with the participation of DCLG member Col. (Ret.) Jim Williams on the newly created CTAC.
For cancer care delivery, DCLG members will be asked to participate in the pilot of the NCI Community Cancer Centers Program (NCCCP), including serving on the advisory committee developed to advise and direct the program and providing ongoing feedback to the director about the community realities of this pilot program. As an important first step, DCLG member Dr. Beverly Laird already is a member of the NCCCP advisory committee.
Finally, on the disparities front, it is imperative that we get consumer advocates' perspectives on the programs and policy approaches NCI has developed to better understand and address this issue. This will include participation on the newly established Integration and Implementation, or I2, team on health disparities.
DCLG members' expertise and experience has been and will continue to be crucial to shaping NCI's science and research agenda. For example, when President Bush visited NIH on January 17, DCLG member Dr. Grace Butler was one of the roundtable participants who told her personal story of cancer. Giving DCLG more direct access to the NCI Director's Office and asking members to offer more focused attention on these three high-priority areas will greatly enhance cancer advocates' role in the NCI decision making process and ensure that NCI is as responsive to advocates' needs as possible.
The role of advocates in maintaining and accelerating our scientific progress has never been greater or more necessary. I would like to thank Mr. Doug Ulman, a three-time cancer survivor, for his leadership of DCLG, and to all the members for their tireless efforts and dedication to advancing the science of cancer care.
Dr. John E. Niederhuber
A recent report in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's January 26 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report found that mammography rates among women 40 and older significantly declined from 2000 to 2005.
The report summarized the findings from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, a state-based, randomly dialed telephone survey of the adult population. The survey, conducted from 2000 to 2005, asked adult female respondents whether they had ever had a mammogram. The women who responded yes to the question were then asked the length of time since their last mammogram.
Mammography rates in women aged 40 and over have declined from 76.4 percent in 2000 to 74.6 percent in 2005, a statistically significant decrease. However, the editors noted that these findings are subject to five limitations: 1) the results might overestimate actual breast cancer screening rates, 2) the results might not be representative of all women since the survey was conducted by telephone, 3) the responses are self-reported and not confirmed by medical records review, 4) the survey response rate was low, and 5) the results might not represent the entire U.S. population because the data only included states from the Women's Health Module.
Additionally, the editors commented that the decline in screening from 2000 to 2005 suggests a need for more careful monitoring because mammography screening every 1 to 2 years can significantly reduce breast cancer mortality.
Study Describes How Virus Evades Body's Defenses
A new study describes how a virus that causes T-cell leukemia and lymphoma evades one of the body's natural defense mechanisms. The study found that an enzyme that would normally inhibit viral replication is excluded from virus particles by human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1). Resistance to the enzyme, called APOBEC3G or hA3G, may contribute to the persistence, dissemination, and potentially lethal nature of the virus.
Dr. David Derse of NCI's HIV Drug Resistance Program in the Center for Cancer Research in Frederick, MD, and his colleagues reported their findings online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences during the week of February 5. HTLV-1 infects 20 million people worldwide and is endemic in southern Japan, the Caribbean, and Africa. Most cases in the U.S. are found in the Southeast. Approximately 1 in 1,500 infected individuals develops HTLV-1-associated leukemia each year, usually decades after the initial infection.
Several human and nonhuman viruses that cause cancer or AIDS are susceptible to hA3G-mediated destruction. Some viruses have adapted ways to avoid this defense mechanism, however. Both HTLV-1 and the AIDS virus (HIV-1) are known to infect T lymphocyte white blood cells, and each has developed a different way of thwarting the antiviral effects of hA3G. When hA3G is incorporated into viral particles, it can start a process that will degrade and deactivate the virus itself.
"Our ultimate goal is to try to find a way to block the HTLV-1 virus from being active in the body," said Dr. Derse. "But, before we can do that, we must have a better understanding of how the virus evades the natural defenses in the cell that should be fighting off infection."
Future studies will investigate how hA3G gets packaged into the virus particle. "The next step will be to look at other viruses in relation to HTLV-1 and examine the mechanisms for evading the body's natural defenses," said Dr. Derse.
Brain Region Involved in Smoking Addiction Identified
Despite modern interventions, cigarette smoking remains difficult to quit, and relapse after an attempt at smoking cessation is common, in large part due to the many regions of the brain that play a role in addictive behavior. A new study from the University of Iowa published in the January 26 Science has identified a region of the brain - the insula - that may play an important role in the conscious urge to smoke and provide a potential target for new antismoking therapies.
Researchers compared 19 smokers who had experienced brain damage that included the insula with 50 smokers who had damage to other parts of the brain. They specifically assessed disruptions of smoking addition - cessation of smoking within 1 day of experiencing brain damage, a loss of the urge to smoke, ease in quitting, and lack of relapse to smoking.
Patients with damage to either the left or the right insula were significantly more likely to experience disruption of smoking addiction than those with damage to other regions. Twelve of the 13 patients who quit smoking after damage to the insula reported a disruption of smoking addiction, compared with only 4 of the 19 patients who quit smoking after damage to other regions of the brain. Damage to regions other than the insula was not significantly associated with disruption of smoking addiction.
The experience of their patients "suggests that the insula plays a role in the feeling that smoking is a bodily need," explained the authors. "Our findings suggest that therapies that modulate the function of the insula will be useful in helping smokers quit."
Radiation Fails to Add Benefit in Localized Lymphoma
Following chemotherapy for localized aggressive lymphoma, many clinicians have used radiotherapy targeted at the area near the tumor on the principle that better local control of disease will yield better outcomes. However, a European trial reported early online this week in the Journal of Clinical Oncology has shown that the addition of radiotherapy does not improve either event-free or overall survival.
The study included 576 patients who were randomly assigned to receive either CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) chemotherapy alone or CHOP and localized radiotherapy. Event-free and overall survival did not differ between the two groups of patients. Writing for the Groupe d'Etude des Lymphomes de l'Adulte (GELA), lead author Dr. Christophe Bonnet at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Liege, Belgium, said that GELA has decided "to abandon radiotherapy as first-line treatment of localized aggressive lymphoma."
The GELA trial, known as GELA LNH 93-4, is the fourth randomized trial to compare chemotherapy alone with chemotherapy followed by radiation therapy in patients with stage I-II aggressive lymphoma. Overall, these trials have failed to support a role for radiotherapy in patients with localized aggressive disease.
In an accompanying editorial, however, Drs. Andrea Ng and Peter Mauch from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute point out that CHOP chemotherapy in combination with the monoclonal antibody rituximab is the current standard of care for this disease. They state further that the most informative trial to clarify the role of radiation therapy in localized aggressive lymphoma will be one that compares CHOP plus rituximab followed by radiation therapy or no additional treatment.
IP Chemo Diminishes Well-Being in Ovarian Cancer Patients
A recent randomized phase III trial comparing intravenous (IV) plus intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy with IV chemotherapy alone in women with stage III epithelial ovarian cancer found that IP treatment significantly lengthened progression-free and overall survival. The researchers from the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG) also assessed the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of participants during the trial.
Study results appearing in the February 1 Journal of Clinical Oncology indicate that women in the IP arm of the trial experienced more adverse side effects for a longer period of time than the women in the IV arm.
GOG researchers randomly assigned 429 patients to either the IV or IP chemotherapy treatment group between March 1998 and January 2001. Among this group, 415 were eligible to participate in the patient-reported HRQOL assessment. Researchers evaluated physical and functional well-being, ovarian cancer symptoms, neurotoxicity (Ntx), and abdominal discomfort (AD) at four time points: before random assignment, before chemotherapy cycle 4, 3 to 6 weeks after treatment, and 12 months after treatment.
While all women in the study reported negative side effects from treatment, women in the IP treatment group reported significantly worse physical and functional well-being before chemotherapy cycle 4 and 3 to 6 weeks after treatment. Women in this group also reported significantly worse AD before cycle 4 and significantly worse Ntx 3 to 6 weeks and 12 months after treatment. However, only the Ntx symptoms remained significantly greater for IP patients 12 months after treatment.
The study's authors wrote, "This HRQOL cluster, as well as patient-reported outcomes of Ntx and AD, should be targeted in future trials not only to evaluate treatment arm differences, but also to measure a patient's responsiveness to new supportive care strategies or surgical techniques aimed at making IP therapy more tolerable."
Cancer Control Opportunities in the Developing World
On February 4, World Cancer Day, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies released a new report, "Cancer Control Opportunities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." The report states that the causes of and outcomes for cancer in developing countries are different from conditions within more affluent, developed countries, and notes that a "one-size-fits-all" solution for cancer control in the developing world is impractical. Instead, IOM recommends a number of unique, resource-appropriate strategies to control and combat cancer.
The report, sponsored by NCI's Office of International Affairs (OIA) and the American Cancer Society, was developed to address the fact that cancer already represents a significant disease burden in low- and middle-income countries. The report focuses on the opportunities in these countries to improve cancer prevention, surveillance, treatment, and palliative care.
"It's very clear that cancer will become an increasingly heavy burden on low- and middle-income countries," noted Dr. Joe Harford, OIA director. "Now is the time to begin in earnest to prepare and to address what can be done in these venues."
One example of the distinct differences in the causes of cancer, IOM notes, is that 26 percent of cancers in developing nations can be attributed to infectious agents such as Helicobacter pylori, hepatitis B and C viruses, and human papillomaviruses (HPV), compared with only about 8 percent in the developed world. Developing countries also have low cure rates and high death rates from cancer, due largely to the advanced stage of disease at diagnosis typical in countries with poor health care infrastructures.
The report discusses issues related to the feasibility of implementing cancer control interventions when resources are limited. For example, an approach that is effective in the United States or Europe may not work in low- and middle-income countries. The report states that priorities for cancer control, and the accompanying cost-benefit analyses, need to be developed in the context of each nation. IOM points to the Breast Health Global Initiative, which is also supported by NCI, as a paradigm for developing resource-level-appropriate guidelines for the overall management of other major cancers.
The IOM report contains several recommendations. First among these is that every developing nation create a cancer control plan. It also recommends that each country sign, ratify, and implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control of the World Health Organization. In the area of infectious causes of cancer, the report recommends the continued assistance of the GAVI Alliance and others in incorporating vaccination for hepatitis B virus into childhood immunization programs. Developing countries are also urged to plan for the introduction of vaccination against HPV to reduce the incidence of cervical cancer.
Given the usually late stage of diagnosis and initiation of treatment for cancer in low- and middle-income countries, IOM stresses the need for enhanced palliative care. The report urges governments to work with national organizations to identify and remove barriers that affect the availability of medications for pain relief and management of other symptoms of advanced cancer.
Cancer surveillance and monitoring are important in gauging the magnitude of the burdens of different cancers and in assessing the efficacy of cancer-control and other interventions. The IOM authors recommend that risk-factor surveillance be initiated, with collection of cause-specific mortality data a priority."The IOM report clearly sets forth the issues and makes specific recommendations," commented Dr. Harford. "It should be required reading for all who are interested in the global fight against cancer."
FDA Outlines Steps for Improving Safety Reviews, Monitoring
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week released a report outlining steps the agency is taking or plans to take to improve its safety programs.
The changes, said FDA Commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, are intended to allow the agency to "keep pace with the rapid evolution of science, technology, and the health care system."
The report includes a series of initiatives that already are under way, as well as new initiatives developed in response to some of the recommendations in a report released last September by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), The Future of Drug Safety: Promoting and Protecting the Health of the Public.
Implementing some of the steps outlined in the report, FDA explained in a statement, will depend on whether the agency receives additional funding from the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, which is up for congressional reauthorization. Under this program, drug and biologic manufacturers pay so-called user fees that are used to help support FDA's review and postmarket safety activities.
Among the changes that have already been initiated is the addition of signal detection and tracking tools to FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System database, or AERS. The new tools, FDA said, will allow staff who review AERS reports to more efficiently and effectively identify and track safety signals.
Combining Targeted Therapies for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Name of the Trial
Principal Investigator
Why This Trial Is Important
In this trial, researchers are combining cetuximab with another targeted drug called sorafenib (Nexavar) to treat patients with metastatic colorectal cancer whose tumors show EGFR activity. Sorafenib blocks the activity of two other proteins called vascular endothelial growth factor receptor (VEGFR) and Raf kinase. VEGFR stimulates the growth of blood vessels to tumors (a process called angiogenesis), and Raf kinase is a key molecule in relaying signals from growth factor receptors to the interior of the cell, where the signals are converted into changes in gene activity that lead to cell growth and multiplication.
"The majority of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer have tumors expressing EGFR," said Dr. Kummar. "Cetuximab is approved by the FDA to treat EGFR-expressing metastatic colorectal cancer, but unfortunately, it produces significant tumor shrinkage in only about 10 percent of patients when used as a single agent. With this trial, we hope to see an improved response rate by augmenting the activity of cetuximab with an additional drug that blocks other processes important for tumor growth and cell proliferation."
Who Can Join This Trial
Study Site and Contact Information
An archive of "Featured Clinical Trial" columns is available at http://cancer.gov/clinicaltrials/ft-all-featured-trials.
If Memory Serves...
The first advisory group involved with NCI's leadership was the National Advisory Cancer Council, which included Dr. James Ewing of Memorial Hospital in New York, Dr. C.C. Little of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Columbia University, Dr. Ludvig Hektoen of the Institute of Medicine in Chicago, Dr. Arthur Compton of the University of Chicago, and Dr. James B. Conant of Harvard University. Dr. Thomas Parran, then the U.S. Surgeon General, was a member ex officio and the council's first chairman. (Read more)
For more information about the birth of NCI, go to http://www. cancer.gov/aboutnci/ncia.
President's Cancer Panel Examines Tobacco
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Sister Study Seeks Participants
"Woman by woman…sister by sister…we can make a difference."That slogan is the unifying theme of a unique effort mounted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), a long-term research project known as the Sister Study. Researchers are recruiting 50,000 women aged 35 to 74, with one crucial trait in common: They all have a sister who developed breast cancer.
Such women are known to be at higher risk of developing breast cancer themselves. Sister Study participants will provide researchers with valuable prospective data because of their links with their sisters: shared genes, a common diet and environment in youth, or even common gene-environment interactions.
Jean Peelen is one of them. In 2001, her younger sister Lynn was diagnosed with breast cancer. "We were all shocked. With no cancer of any kind in our family background, we naïvely thought we were somehow bulletproof," she explains. "Far from it. My older sister Lois was diagnosed a few years ago, and then my older daughter." Both Ms. Peelen and her younger daughter are enrolled in the Sister Study, more committed than ever after Lynn died in 2006. "We still can't explain it," she says. "That's the part that nags at me and why we are doing our bit to help researchers answer the "Why me?' question." Ms. Peelen is also actively advocating and helping to recruit older women.
Though more than 32,000 women have enrolled, researchers are pushing hard to recruit the remaining 18,000 women by the end of 2007. "Many women have heard about the project, but they haven't signed up yet, and we really need them now," says Dr. Dale Sandler, NIEHS Epidemiology Branch chief and principal study investigator. "Physicians know very little about how the environment may affect breast cancer, which is why the Sister Study is so important."
"Women play many important roles throughout their lives—daughter, mother, and friend—but no relationship is as unique as the one between two sisters," explains Sara Williams, part of the recruitment team.
"We're committed to enrolling women in every state, and from all backgrounds, occupations, races, and ethnicities," she comments. "That way, the study results will be widely representative, and of the greatest value."
Organizations partnering with NIEHS on the Sister Study include the American Cancer Society, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities of NIH, Sisters Network Inc., Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization, and the Intercultural Cancer Council.
The Sister Study Web site is available in English and Spanish, and those interested in joining can determine whether they may be eligible online. For more information go to www.sisterstudy.org, or for Spanish to www.estudiodehermanas.org. A toll-free number is also available: 877-4SISTER (877-474-7837). Deaf/Hard of Hearing: 866-TTY-4SIS (866-889-4747).


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(RNN) – The first thing most people with sinus infections want to do is go to the doctor to get a shot, but that may not be the best option.
In the long run, it could make matters worse.
The Infectious Diseases Society of America (ISDA) released an advisory last year saying that using antibiotics to treat sinus infections is an ineffective method because 90 to 98 percent of cases are caused by viruses. Antibiotics attack bacteria, not viruses.
"There is no simple test that will easily and quickly determine whether a sinus infection is viral or bacterial, so many physicians prescribe antibiotics 'just in case,'" stated Dr. Anthony Chow of the University of British Columbia-Vancouver in the ISDA report. "However, if the infection turns out to be viral - as most are - the antibiotics won't help and, in fact, can cause harm by increasing antibiotic resistance, exposing patients to drug side effects unnecessarily and adding cost."
That also means antibiotics will not properly treat airborne irritants like cigarette smoke and exhaust fumes.
A doctor should ask a patient several questions and take into account the person's medical history before prescribing a specific treatment.
Part of battling seasonal allergies includes understanding what they are and what causes them.
Allergies are essentially an overreaction to harmless substances that enter the body. The body's immune system goes into overdrive and produces excess tears and mucus in addition to other reactions. The most common allergic diseases include hay fever, asthma, conjunctivitis, hives, eczema, dermatitis and sinusitis.
More than one-third of people with runny noses and nasal inflammation do not have allergies, according to the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology. The condition, referred to as nonallergic rhinitis, usually afflicts adults and can happen any time of year.
No part of the country is much better at reducing symptoms of allergies than another. Each region has specific plant life and climate conditions that can trigger reactions in certain people.
Allergies affect more than 50 million people each year and are the sixth-leading cause of chronic illness in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Annual costs for treatment reach more than $18 billion.
The CDC says minor sinus infections will usually get better on their own, but they will take longer to clear than colds. Symptoms usually last for a few weeks or longer.
Anaphylaxis, or anaphylactic shock, is the most severe allergic reaction. Symptoms include flush skin, lightheadedness, chest tightness and tingling in the hands, feet or lips. It can cause breathing or blood circulation problems and in severe cases, death. People at severe risk for anaphylaxis should carry an epinephrine pen.
Allergists recommend several things people can do prevent flare-ups or severe reactions:
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