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Cosmopolitan
Nobody ever really believes they could get a life-threatening illness when they're young - we all somehow believe we're invincible in our twenties and thirties, and even beyond.
But in reality, that's not the case. And while we don't want to spend our lives worrying about something that might never happen, it can certainly pay to be aware of the symptoms that could indicate a potentially dangerous illness.
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ASCT
Election results are in and ASCT is happy to announce our new president-elect, as well as one returning and two new regional directors!
Jodie Woodside, MS, CT(ASCP), President-Elect
Carol Brucick, CT(ASCP)(IAC), Region 1 Director (Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, Western Canada)
Crystal Whitmore, BS, CT(ASCP)CM, Region 3 Director (Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas)
Eric Dufour, MS, CT(ASCP)CM, Region 5 Director (Connecticut, Delaware, Washington DC, Eastern Canada, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia)
If you would like to volunteer to join a committee or serve as regional director yourself, click here for more information. We look forward to hearing from you!
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August 29, 2018 |
Molecular Testing in GYN Cytopathology
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your PC |
Dina R. Mody, MD
Houston Methodist Hospital
Houston, Texas
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September 12, 2018 |
Conflict Resolution for Cytopathologists and Cytotechnologists
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your PC |
Christine N. Booth, MD
Deborah J. Chute, MD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio
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October 2018 |
Immunohistochemistry: Cell blocks, Double Stains and Emerging Stains
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your PC |
Donna K. Russell, MEd, CT(ASCP)HT
UR Medicine
Rochester, New York
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November 2018 |
Anal Cytology: An Update
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your PC |
Vohra Poonam, MD
University of California San Francisco Medical Center
San Francisco, CA
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December 2018 |
Indeterminate Thyroid Nodules on Fine Needle Aspiration: Correlation with Clinical, Imaging, Molecular and Histopathological Findings
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your PC |
Rana S. Hoda, MD
CBLPath Inc
Rye Brook, New York
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Available for 6 months after subscribing |
Quality Assessment Center (QAC) Cell Blocks Basics Workbench
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Your PC |
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Available for 6 months after subscribing |
Quality Assessment Center (QAC)
Document Control for Cytopathology Workbench
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Your PC |
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Available for 6 months after subscribing |
Quality Assessment Center (QAC)
The LEAN Cytopathology Laboratory Workbench
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May 3 - 5, 2019 |
2019 ASCT Annual Conference
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San Juan, Puerto Rico |
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Medical Xpress
The gains in insurance coverage with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) have already translated into improved health for young women with gynecologic cancers, who are getting diagnosed at earlier stages of their disease because of ACA benefits. That's the conclusion of a new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, who looked at nationwide trends in gynecologic cancer diagnosis in a large population of women before and after the ACA's implementation in 2010. The results were published in the June issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Clinical Oncology News
An investigational new drug that targets human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV-16) in solid tumor cancers caused by HPV shows promise, according to a session at the 2018 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago. T-cell receptor (TCR) therapy is a type of personalized immunotherapy designed to activate the immune system’s ability to recognize and target specific tumors. TCR therapy involves engineering a person’s own T cells to express naturally occurring receptors that can recognize specific tumor antigens.
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Chicago Tribune
In her children’s pediatrician’s office two years ago, Lockport mother Kelly DiFilippo declined the HPV vaccine for her oldest daughter, and “no one batted an eye,” she said.
But when it was time for her second daughter’s sixth-grade physical last winter, DiFilippo’s refusal of the vaccine was met with a different reaction from the same doctor.
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CAP TODAY
The March 16 announcement of a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services coverage policy for next-generation-sequencing–based diagnostic lab tests for patients with advanced cancer did not appear out of the blue, since a draft policy was issued last fall. But the revised final national coverage determination broke away from the original draft significantly.
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Science Daily
Women who eat a high amount of fruits and vegetables each day may have a lower risk of breast cancer, especially of aggressive tumors, than those who eat fewer fruits and vegetables, according to a new study.
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News-Medical.net
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women, accounting for 25 percent of all cancer cases worldwide. Much progress has been made in detecting breast tumors, and survival rates are relatively high compared to other forms of cancer.
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Medical Daily
If you tend to eat your dinner later in the night and closer to bedtime, you may want to reconsider. An earlier dinner time was linked to a lower risk of breast and prostate cancer in a new study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) in Spain.
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