Thursday, April 24, 2014

May 8th is World Ovarian Cancer Day

Two weeks from today on May 8th World Ovarian Cancer Day will take place. World Ovarian Cancer Day is a great way to raise awareness of the disease worldwide. Around 140,000 women worldwide will loose their lives to ovarian cancer. The first World Ovarian Cancer Day was held in 2013.

The #gyncsm community supports the efforts of World Ovarian Cancer Day to raise awareness of the symptoms of the disease, the importance of family history and the need to fund research.

We urge our followers to visit the World Ovarian Cancer Day website and to sign the pledge to share information about ovarian cancer with  five other women. If you are on Twitter you can spread the word using the hashtags #WOCD and #WorldOvarianCancerDay. You can also visit them on Facebook at facebook.com/WorldOvarianCancerDay.

Help us spread the word!

Dee
#gyncsm co-moderator

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

News from the Annual SGO Meeting- April Chat

The Society of Gynecologic Oncologists met in Florida at the end of March for their annual meeting. During tonight's chat we asked the doctors and researchers these questions:

T1a: What SGO presentation did you find of most interest?

T1b: What SGO presentation do you think will interest patients most? What were some of the studies of note?

T2: In what areas is new research lacking? 

T3: Is there anything patients/survivors/advocates need to take immediate note of?

T4: Were there other session topics that resonated for you?


You can find the transcript of the night's talk here and analytics here.

Links for studies mentioned during the chat:

High volume cancer centers have better outcomes for gyn cancer pts; >1 year overall survival (OS) https://t.co/7PHsHbt5Rq

Risk of high risk uterine cancer in BRCA patients -  http://t.co/qveUn8w0J3

Smarca4 in hypercalcemic type small cell ovary cancer  http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.2922.html

BRCA1 link to higher risk of aggressive uterine cancer https://t.co/DBDt9mOnTp

"Cancer doesn’t end women’s sex life” http://t.co/ST2qiLKIOs 

Obese women who had bariatric surgery 3 ½ times less likely to get uterine cancer than without surgery https://t.co/RWfcJzZQvW

JAMA paper on electric morcellation risks http://t.co/slkaN2O4WT 

SGO had a position statement in Dec 2013 on morcellation too https://t.co/SQmL5ZatDL

SGO recommends genetic testing for all women dx w #ovca. even if no family history - a new position paper http://t.co/GjqF8dewR6 


Meeting Abstracts:
SGO website  https://t.co/2CRcIIJhqT

Videos:
2014 SGO Mtg surgery & translational science overview http://t.co/3Z0ab6WHlK 
2014 SGO Mtg #ovarian cancer overview http://t.co/EWp08G36yn
2014 SGO Mtg #cervical cancer overview http://t.co/00m3qDM9vo
2014 SGO Mtg #uterine cancer overview with @dsmgyo http://t.co/BG4SKpcmRU 
World Ovarian Cancer Day is May 8th http://t.co/jKTa0Efvdk #WOCD #WorldOvarianCancerDay

Feel free to e-mail us (gyncsm@gmail.com)  or tweet us (@gyncsm)  if you have any questions. 

See you Wednesday May 14, 2014 9pm EST Topic: Parenting after a gyn cancer diagnosis

Dee
Co-moderator