OncoLog MD Anderson's Report to Physicians, 1990-1999

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 02, February 1999

  Nancy Arora, Sunni Hosemann, and Kimberly JT Herrick

  • Laryngeal Mask Airway: A New Frontier in Airway Management
  • House Call: Exercise--A Hop, Skip, and a Jump for Reducing Cancer Risk
  • Conferences Offer Variety of Topics
  • Cervical Cancer Study Results Expected to Change Practice
  • May I Take Your Order?

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 04, April 1999

  Dawn Chalaire

  • Pancreatic Tumor Team Studies Disease Mechanisms, Reverses Conventional Approach
  • Patient Helps Underwrite Familial Cancer Study
  • Stomach Cancer Protocols Offer Options
  • Gastric Cancer's Low Survival Rate and High Relapse Rate Challenge Physicians
  • House Call: Environmental Carcinogens: Fact and Fiction
  • Protocols: Pancreatic Cancer Protocol Options Include Gemdtabine and Marimastat

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 03, March 1999

  Dawn Chalaire, Beth W. Allen, and Alison Rufffin

  • Vaccines, Other New Options Expand Renal Cancer Therapy Program
  • Thirteen-story Alkek Hospital Makes Debut
  • Training Takes Prevention and Early Detection Worldwide
  • Nephrectomy Before or After Systemic Therapy­--That Is the Question
  • House Call: Alcohol and Cancer: Making Sense of a Cocktail of Risks and Benefits
  • Protocols: Renal Cell Carcinoma Trials Offer Therapies for Treated and Untreated Patients
  • Compass: New Quarterly Supplement Offers Perspectives on Clinical Guidelines

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 07/08, July/August 1999

  Dawn Chalaire; Kimberly JT Herrick; and Robert C. Bast, Jr. MD

  • New MRI Techniques Pinpoint Brain Tumors, Reveal Brain Functions in Real Time
  • Upcoming Conferences Explore Many Topics
  • Protocols: Liver Cancer Clinical Trials
  • DiaLog: CA 125: The Past and the Future, by Robert C. Bast Jr., MD, Head, Division of Medicine
  • House Call: Hormone Replacement Therapy: End to Hot Flashes or Fuse for New Cancers?
  • Aggressive Regional Therapies Offer Some Promising Results for Patients with Liver Tumors

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 10, October 1999

  Dawn Chalaire, Alison Rufffin, and Vickie J. Williams

  • Stereotadic Unit Expands Treatment Options for Patients with Brain Tumors
  • New Center Teams With Community Physicians to Treat Patients With Advanced Cancer
  • IRS Deduction Gives Smokers One More Reason to Quit
  • Accuracy Essential in Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • House Call: Vitamins and Cancer Risk: Why You Should Eat Your (Fruits and) Vegetables
  • Protocols: Brain Tumor Protocols Include Stereotactic Treatments, Surgery, and Radiation Therapy

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 09, September 1999

  Dawn Chalaire, Alison Rufffin, Vickie J. Williams, and Aman Buzdar MD

  • Cautious Approach to Soft Tissue Sarcoma Yields More Favorable Outcomes
  • What's to Eat? Encouraging children to eat well for a healthier future
  • Orthopaedic Surgeons Save Limbs, Restore Function for Patients with Bone Tumors
  • DiaLog: High-Dose Chemotherapy Deserves More Study, by Aman Buzdar, MD, Professor, Department of Breast Medical Oncology
  • House Call: Breast Cancer: Understanding the Risks
  • Protocols: Sarcoma/Osteosarcoma Clinical Trials

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 01, January 1999

  Stephanie Deming, Lewis Foxhall M.D., Sunni Hosemann, and Beth W. Allen

  • Innovative PET Camera Readied for Tumor Detection Trials
  • House Call: How to Talk With Your Doctor
  • Community Physicians: Important Partners With M. D. Anderson
  • DiaLog: Liaison Program Strives to Enhance Access, by Lewis Foxhall, MD, Associate Vice President for Health Policy
  • Fatigue: The Multidimensional Side Effect
  • High Resolution, High Sensitivity, and Variable Field of View Set MDACAM Apart

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 12, December 1999

  Margaret E. Goode, Dawn Chalaire, and John Mendelsohn MD

  • Collaboration Between Scientists, Clinicians Moves Apoptosis Studies Forward
  • Answering the Who, What, and How of Medical Physics
  • USHERING IN NEW TECHNOLOGIES: Medical Physicists Focus on IMRT, Ultrasound-Guided Brachytherapy
  • DiaLog: Building Better Patient Care on the Foundation of Scientific Research, by John Mendelsohn, MD, President, Professor of Clinical Investigation
  • House Call: Make Cancer Prevention Part of Your New Year's Resolutions

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 11, November 1999

  Beth Notzon, Dawn Chalaire, and Rhonda L. Moore PhD

  • Overcoming Side Effects: Department of Internal Medicine Specialties Finds Ways to Continue Critical Treatments
  • Partners in Knowledge, News in Cancer: P.I.K.N.I.C. Program Brings Physicians, Patients Together
  • House Call: CIS: Answering the Call for Help
  • Advances in Control of Nausea, Vomiting Aim to Reduce 'Misery Quotient'
  • DiaLog: Finding Meaning in Stories of Pain and Suffering, by Rhonda L. Moore, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Epidemiology
  • Protocols: Side Effects of Cancer and Cancer Treatments Are the Subject of Clinical Investigations

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 06, June 1999

  Jude Richard, Michael Courtney, Alison Rufffin, and Dawn Chalaire

  • After Diagnosis, Another Hurdle: Cancer Screening for the Cancer Patient
  • House Call: Reduce Cancer Risk With Regular Cancer Screening
  • M. D. Anderson Participates in Multinational Breast Cancer Prevention Trial of Tamoxifen and Raloxifene
  • Nerve Grafting Attempts to Restore Erectile Function After Prostatectomy
  • M. D. Anderson Researchers Study Children's School Lunch Habits and Choices

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  OncoLog, Volume 44, Number 05, May 1999

  Vickie J. Williams and Dawn Chalaire

  • Researchers Seek Genetic Cues to High Prostate Cancer Incidence in African Americans
  • House Call: "Got Milk?" Say Yes to Calcium's Benefits
  • Overcoming Barriers to Pain Relief in Hispanic and African-American Patients
  • Prostate Cancer Initiatives: Progress Through Collaboration
  • Protocols: Prostate Cancer Clinical Trials

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 10, October 1998

  Beth W. Allen; Beth Notzon; Alison Ruffin; and Fran Zandstra RN, BSN, MBA, OCN

  • Endometrial cancer: prompt responses yield high survival rates
  • Celebrating the end of a destructive relationship: one smoker's story
  • Gene therapy for brain tumors moves from laboratory to clinic
  • Protocols: Trials Offer Treatment Options for Patients with Endometrial Cancer
  • Protocols: Brain Tumor Trials Encompass Radiation, Drug, Biological, and Gene Therapies
  • House Call: Using Antioxidants: Read the Road Signs and Yield to Caution
  • DiaLog: Protecting Hard-Won Surgical Cure: Surveillance for Recurrent Endometrial Cancer, by Fran Zandstra, RN, BSN, MBA, OCN, Center Administrative Director, Gynecology Oncology Center

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 02, February 1998

  Beth W. Allen, Alison Rufffin, and Rebecca D. Pentz Ph.D.

  • Genetic findings prompt cancer survivor to elect surgery
  • Protocols: Radiotherapy Protocols Offer Treatment for Range of Sites and Types of Cancer
  • Radiation oncology: targeting effective treatment
  • House Call: Cancer: Is it in the Genes or in the Stars?
  • DiaLog: Genetic Tests Demand New Answers by Rebecca D. Pentz, PhD, Clinical Ethicist

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 09, September 1998

  Sunni Hosemann, Alison Ruffin, Stephanie Deming, and Garrett L. Walsh MD

  • Epidemiologists find association between gene variants and smoking
  • Health care of cancer survivors addressed in new program
  • New antitobacco initiatives include clinic and computers
  • Protocols: Studies in Cancer Prevention and Health Care After Cancer Therapy Focus on Specific Needs
  • House Call: Kicking the Tobacco Habit: The Five Commandments
  • DiaLog: Surgical Techniques Offer Hope for Those with Lung Cancer, by Garrett L. Walsh, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 08, August 1998

  Don Norwood, David Bababian, Beth W. Allen, Allison Ruffin, and Stephen P. Tomasovic PhD

  • Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma therapy innovations improve patient response
  • Tamoxifen helps women escape breast cancer's shadow
  • Careful inspection, early detection important in controlling oral cancer
  • Protocols: Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Protocols Feature Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, and Monoclonal Antibodies
  • House Call: Americans’ Appetite for Alternative Medicine: Is It a Safe Diet?
  • DiaLog: Comprehensive in More Ways than One, by Stephen P. Tomosovic, PhD, Associate Vice President for Educational Programs

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 05, May 1998

  Beth Notzon and Geoffrey Robb MD

  • Careful examinations and sentinel node mapping bolster melanoma detection and staging
  • M. D. Anderson plastic surgeons restore hope along with function and appearance
  • Protocols: Clinical Trials Offer Treatment for Advanced Melanoma
  • House Call: Keep Skins—and Cancer—Under Wraps During Summer
  • DiaLog: Reconstructing More than the Breast, by Geoffrey Robb, MD, Director, Surgical Specialties Center

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 07, July 1998

  Sunita Patterson, Beth W. Allen, Sunni Hosemann, and Porter Storey MD

  • Palliative care outreach extends to all patients, providing a way station for cancer-weary travelers
  • Understanding the lure and promise of angiogenesis inhibition
  • House Call: Mammography: An Opportunity to Detect Breast Cancer Early
  • DiaLog: When Treatments Fail: What Physicians Can Do, What Patients Can Teach, by Porter Storey, MD, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 01, January 1998

  Sunita Patterson, Stephanie Deming, and Therese Bevers MD

  • Taking Mammography on the Road
  • Reassurance and Education Foster Rehabilitation After Colorectal Surgery
  • Protocols: Protocols focus on chemoprevention, improving preoperative radiotherapy, and treating advance-stage colorectal cancer
  • Sphincter-Preserving Surgery Improves Outcome for Patients with Rectal Cancer
  • House Call: Stopping Cancer Before It Occurs: Spell P-r-e-v-e-n-t-i-o-n
  • Dialog: Reaching Out and In by Therese Bevers, MD, Cancer Prevention Center Director
  • Protocols: Protocols focus on chemoprevention, improving preoperative radiotherapy, and treating advance-stage colorectal cancer

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 04, April 1998

  Sunita Patterson, Sunni Hosemann, Alison Ruffin, and Mitchell Morris MD

  • Molecular research leads to clinical trials for bladder cancer
  • Patients to test exercise theory in quality-of-life study
  • Practice guidelines and collaborative paths point the way
  • Protocols: Bladder Cancer Clinical Trials Interventions Span Surgery, Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy, and Genetic Manipulation
  • DiaLog: The New Math of Today’s Health Care, by Mitchell Morris, MD, Vice President for Information and Health Care Systems

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 06, June 1998

  Sunita Patterson and Hagop Kantarjian MD

  • New treatment strategies improve prognosis in patients with chronic leukemias
  • Ultrasonography fosters targeted intraprostatic therapy
  • Protocols: Trials for Chronic Leukemia Feature Chemotherapy and “Mini” Transplants
  • House Call: Answering the Who, What, When, Why, and How of Cancer
  • DiaLog: Leukemia’s Lessons in Malignant Transformation, by Hagop Kantarjian, MD, Professor of Medicine, Department of Leukemia

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 03, March 1998

  Sunita Patterson; Don Norwood; Alison Ruffin; and Linda White Hilton RN, BSN, FAAN

  • Promising radio frequency treatment: new option for patients with unresectable liver tumors
  • Nurse practitioners go beyond traditional nursing boundaries
  • International patient center offers help, haven to patients far from home
  • House Call: Old Friends, New Context: When Someone Close Has Cancer
  • Protocols: Trials Open to Patients with Biliary Tract Hepatocellular Carcinoma
  • DiaLog: Searching for Opportunity? First Look for Disaster by Linda White Hilton, RN, MSN, FAAN, Director, Clinical Cancer Prevention Programs

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  OncoLog, Volume 43, Number 11/12, November-December 1998

  Jude Richard and Alison Ruffin

  • Mohs surgeon expands skin cancer treatment options
  • Colorectal cancer campaign launched at White House
  • House Call: Reducing Colorectal Cancer Risk: Modify Diet, Undergo Screening

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  OncoLog, Volume 41, Number 01, January-March 1996

  Stephanie P. Deming, Kathryn L. Hale, and Vickie J. Williams

  • Malignant brain tumors a new target for gene therapy
  • Benign pituitary tumors threaten endocrine and nervous systems
  • New guidebook helps patients and caregivers cope with advanced cancer

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  OncoLog, Volume 41, Number 03, July-September 1996

  Maureen E. Goode and Vickie J. Williams

  • M. D. Anderson researchers stress importance of annual colorectal cancer screening
  • Informed consent explains concerns about genetic testing
  • New program focuses on inherited predisposition to breast and ovarian cancer

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  OncoLog, Volume 41, Number 02, April-June 1996

  Kathryn L. Hale and Stephanie P. Deming

  • lntraoperative lymphatic mapping elegant way to identify lymph node metastases in melanoma patients
  • New Patient Referral Office changes with M. D. Anderson's referral policy
  • Combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy bringing hope for inoperable lung cancer