Views from the Other Side of the Looking Glass: Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer [Paperback]

Here I come with a book that talks about ovarian cancer. This book is written by Terry Downey. The title is Views from the Other Side of the Looking Glass: Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer. The format of this book is paperback. Come with 200 pages, I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.

Book Description

Something was wrong—very wrong. Even the receptionist knew it. They would fit me in. Suddenly I was on a high-speed train—going someplace that I did not want to go. I didn’t have a reservation. I didn’t have a destination. It didn’t matter. I had the symptom. I could come on board.

As the train sped rapidly down the track, my primary care physician arranged an array of appointments with other physicians and various diagnostic tests. Descriptions of the pictures of my inner body did not verify the presence or absence of cancer. Instead they suggested a diverse assortment of diagnoses. It was like having to choose an answer for a multiple-choice question but choosing the answer that I liked best—most likely a fibroid—was not an option.

Views from the Other Side of the Looking Glass: Reflections on My Journey with Ovarian Cancer captures author Terry Downey’s experiences with a silent but deadly cancer. Downey describes finding herself on a high speed train going places that she did not want to go. As she progressed through diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, and radioimmune therapy, those who made the journey with her helped to transform her feelings of hopelessness and despair into feelings of hope and courage.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• List Price: $16.95 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Author: Terry Downey
• Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
• Publication Date: April 13, 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595347096
• ISBN-13: 978-0595347094
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces

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Ovarian Cancer (State of the Art Series (Remedica)) [Paperback]

Here I come with a book that talks about ovarian cancer. This book is written by Robert C., Jr. Bast and Maurie Markman. The title is Ovarian Cancer (State of the Art Series (Remedica)). The format of this book is paperback. Come with 239 pages, I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.


Book Description

Ovarian cancer remains one of the major causes of cancer mortality in women throughout the world with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 30 per cent for patients with advanced-stage disease. Over the last two decades, our understanding of the molecular and cellular biology of ovarian cancer has dramatically increased. Our main challenge in the next decade is to accelerate progress in the clinical management of ovarian cancer by translating research findings from ovarian cancer biology to clinical practice, such that we can improve the diagnosis and treatment of this disease.

This involves not only the development of new biomarkers, drugs, and vaccines, but also their evaluation by means of trials that measure biological endpoints as well as clinical activity. Given the challenges and opportunities ahead of us, this is a particularly appropriate time to take stock of our current understanding of ovarian cancer and our ability to diagnose and treat the disease. The book identifies recent advances as well as the shortcomings of current practice, and places an emphasis on the latest translational studies.

"Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art" is authored by experts who have made significant contributions to ovarian cancer research in their specific field of interest, and provides a comprehensive, critical review of the rapidly expanding literature base.

Product Details

• Paperback: 239 pages
• List Price: $39.95 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Author: Robert C., Jr. Bast and Maurie Markman
• Publisher: Remedica Books
• Publication Date: May 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1905721536
• ISBN-13: 978-1905721535
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces

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Sarah's Rain [Paperback]

Here I come with a book that talks about ovarian cancer. This book is written by Ava Vanyo. The title is Sarah's Rain. The format of this book is paperback. Come with 268 pages, I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.

Book Description

Sarah MacLaurin was a successful lawyer at a prestigious firm. Well known for being impeccably dressed, well groomed, and sharp as a tack, it disturbed her coworkers when she suddenly became withdrawn, sullen, and sloppy.


Product Details

• Paperback: 268 pages
• List Price: $15.00 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Author: Ava Vanyo
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Publication Date: July 31, 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1411641361
• ISBN-13: 978-1411641365
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds

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Ovarian Cancer with Expert Consult (Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series). [Hardcover]

Here I come with a book that talks about ovarian cancer. This book is written by Robert E. Bristow and Deborah K. Armstrong. The title is Ovarian Cancer with Expert Consult (Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series). The format of this book is hardcover. Come with 256 pages, I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.

Book Description

Each volume in the Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer Series is packed with practical, authoritative information designed to cover the full range of diagnostic procedures, including bronchoscopic, pathologic, radiologic, and surgical aspects. You'll be able to:

• Decide the safest, shortest, least invasive way to reach an accurate diagnosis
• Stage the disease, and
• Choose the best initial treatment for early stages

Based on current proof in the literature, authors provide clinical, hands-on tools to help you make informed decisions on precisely what tests and imaging studies are needed to diagnose and stage each type of cancer.

Practical, authoritative, and highly-illustrated, this volume in the brand new Early Detection and Treatment of Cancer series covers current protocols and the latest advances in diagnostic imaging and molecular and serologic markers for ovarian cancer. Apply expert recommend on the best "next-step" plan for different demonstrations and tips for less invasive protocols.

Get clinical, hands-on tools to help you make informed decisions on precisely what tests and imaging studies are needed for accurate diagnosis and staging. Clear figures, tables, and boxes illustrate step-by-step care of the full range of problems encountered. Better manage your patients with procedural video clips and more on the included CD-ROM. The small size and convenient format make this an ideal purchase for diagnostic reference.

• Outlines the steps after diagnosis to guide you through formulating a treatment or patient care plan.
• Emphasizes important points-such as vaccines, paracentesis, and laparoscopic procedures for staging-with "key points" boxes at the beginning of each chapter and pedagogic features throughout.
• Summarizes the process of accurately diagnosing and staging cancer in a logical, almost algorithmic, approach for easy reference.
• Discusses the treatment of early-stage disease so you have clear options for care.
• Complements the procedures outlined in the text with full-color photographs and line drawings to reinforce your understanding of the material.
• Features a CD-ROM showing video clips of diagnostic procedures, as well as all of the images, tables, and drawings from the text to help you better manage your patients.

Review

"It is an excellently written, comprehensive, and up-to-date reference text on the subject. It has 26 contributors, 25 of whom are from the US, and one from Tel Aviv, Israel, but is global in its perspective of the topics covered. It is a glossy hardback that is easily readable and of average portable size."
Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer Series: Ovarian Cancer. March 2010

"...I would recommend this text most highly and look forward to other books in the series, in the hope that future titles might include coverage of the other gynecological malignancies."
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, March 2010

"...this book would be a very worthwhile addition to the library of any gynaecological cancer multidisciplinary team or an oncology trainee or researcher wishing an up-to-date overview of the subject."
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, May 2010

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• List Price: $152.00 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Author: Robert E. Bristow and Deborah K. Armstrong
• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication Date: November 3, 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1416046852
• ISBN-13: 978-1416046851
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds

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Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art and Future Directions in Translational Research (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology) [Paperback]

Here I come with a book that talks about ovarian cancer. This book is written by George Coukos (Editor), Andrew Berchuck (Editor), Robert Ozols (Editor). The title is Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art and Future Directions in Translational Research (Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology). The format of this book is paperback. Come with 318 pages, I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.


Book Description


Aegean Conferences is an independent, nonprofit, educational organization directed and managed by the scientific community. The board is made up of nine researchers/scientists in various disciplines from Harvard, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, UCSD, Princeton, Biovista and the Foundation for Biomedical Research Academy of Athens. The board both invites and approves unsolicited proposals for Conferences in all fields of Science, Engineering, Arts, and Humanities. The purpose of the Conferences is to bring together individuals with common interests to examine the emerging and most advanced aspects of their particular field.


The Symposium on Ovarian Cancer: State of the Art and Future Directions means to bring together international experts interested in the development of prognostic, novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools for ovarian cancer. The meeting will function as a think tank where clinicians, translational and basic scientists, and parties from the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry will get together to review recent advances in clinical research and translational science in ovarian cancer and define areas of future research opportunities and priorities.


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• Paperback: 318 pages
• List Price: $169.00 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Author: George Coukos (Editor), Andrew Berchuck (Editor), Robert Ozols (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: November 19, 2010
• Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2008 edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1441923969
• ISBN-13: 978-1441923967
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds

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Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control (Patient Centered Guides) [Paperback]

Here I come with another book that talk about ovarian cancer. This book is written by Kristine Conner and Lauren Langford. The title is Ovarian Cancer: Your Guide to Taking Control (Patient Centered Guides). The format of this book is paperback. Come with 600 pages (that's a lot page for a book :D), I hope you can learn more about ovarian cancer from this book.

Book Description

This unique guide for ovarian cancer offers women crucial medical information to improve the opportunity for lengthy remission and cure, as well as emotional support for the journey. Although many ovarian cancers are discovered after they have spread, having information about surgery and best practices can be life-saving.

For example, choosing a surgeon from the new specialty of gynecologic oncology for staging and de-bulking surgeries strongly impacts survival. Women require to at least consider newer chemotherapy and biological treatments in research trials. Women also want to hear the stories of others who live with the ambiguity of remission.

This book includes:

• Ten things to know at the time of diagnosis, for optimal outcome
• How choosing a gynecologic oncology surgeon impacts survival
• When and how you can consider newer treatments, now in clinical trials
• Stories of dozens of women living with ovarian cancer, some for many years
• "Questions for Your Doctor" for all decision points
• A focus on epithelial cancers, the most common and difficult to treat, with additional information on germ cell, sex cord-stromal cell, and low malignant potential ovarian cancers
• Noted cancer writer Kristine Conner and patient advocate Lauren Langford provide ovarian cancer patients with a supportive and much-needed resource.

Product Details

• Paperback: 600 pages
• List Price: $70.99 (Discount may awaiting for you)
• Authors: Kristine Conner and Lauren Langford
• Publisher: Patient Centered Guides
• Edition: 1st
• Publication Date: January 1, 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0596500165
• ISBN-13: 978-0596500160
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds

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Is There Any Relation Between HPV And Ovarian cancer

In this post i'm gonna talk about "Is there any relation between HPV and Ovarian cancer ?"

HPV is a family of viruses with close to 200 strains. It infects the outermost layer of skin or the genitals called the squamous epithelium. HPV gets its name from the telltale warts or papillomas that it causes in these areas. Since HPV is a cancer-causing virus that also thrives in the epithelium, scientists have wanted to find out if ovarian tumors may also be caused by HPV.

The first study on HPV and ovarian cancer was performed in 1987, when Dr. Raymond H. Kaufman and his colleagues discovered HPV-6 DNA in 10 out of 12 patients with ovarian cancer. Following studies, however, have indicated no conclusive relation between HPV and tumors in the ovaries. These include a 1989 study headed by Dr. Jonathan Leake and studies by Dr. Robert McLellan, Drs. Ann-Marie Beckmann and Anne-Marie Trottier in 1990, 1991 and 1995, respectively.

In 1998, however, a study in China by doctors of the Jilin City Center Hospital discovered strong relations between ovarian growths and HPV types 16 and 18, the same HPV types that lead cervical cancer. Another study in the same year by a British team led by Dr. Tom Manolistas also indicate a relation between HPV 16 and ovarian tumors.

In 1999, Dr. Maarit Antilla and colleagues did a high-sensitivity analysis on 98 epithelial ovarian tumors as well as reviewed all the prior HPV-ovarian tumor studies performed with a total of 175 samples. They concluded that HPV is "highly impossible" to lead epithelial ovarian cancer.

Research performed in the past 10 years have been alikely contradicting. A 2003 study performed by doctors from the Inner Mongolia Medical College in China discovered that 36% of epithelial ovarian tumors in 50 cases had HPV-16.

Another study in 2005 discovered HPV-16 in 60% of ovarian tumors analyzed, but concluded that it was statistically insignificant. The researchers, led by Esra Kuscu of the Baskent University School of Medicine in Turkey, proved that HPV may cause some ovarian tumors by interacting with the tumor suppressing gene known as p53.

This was further strengthened by another study by Funda Atalay and colleagues at the Ankara Oncology Research and Educational Hospital. Out of 94 patients with ovarian cancer, they discovered 6 with HPV-16 and 2 with HPV-33.

In different, 20 ovarian tumors analyzed in 2006 by Jeffrey Quirk and his team were negative for HPV types 16, 18, and 33. Another case of HPV-related ovarian squamous cell cancer was informed widely by Dr. Jasper Verguts of the Belgian University Hospital Gasthuisberg in 2007. In Italy, 3 out of 71 patients with ovarian epithelial tumors were informed to have HPV in 2008.

In 2008, an article published by Giovanna Giordana and colleagues found that HPV, when present in ovarian growths, may not be the driving cause of tumors.

In the same year Dr. Brigitte Ronnett and her team confirmed that cancerous cervical tumors may very well tour or metastasize to the ovaries. It means that HPV-positive ovarian tumors may have perhaps come from alike growths in the cervix.

In 2011, Japanese researchers from the University of Toyama in Japan informs a case of ovarian squamous cell carcinoma that metastasized 8 years after a woman had a part of her cervix removed because of cervical tumors. One study published in 2008 is at odds with these findings, however. A group led by Nicolas Wentzensen of the University of Heidelberg in Germany tested for metastatic cervical tumor cells in 74 ovarian tumors but discovered none.

My conclusion

Basically,  the relation between HPV and ovarian cancer is still debatable. While there are cases where HPV was discovered in ovarian epithelial tumors, it is still not obvious how it got there and how it can be linked to cancer. The only sure thing is that HPV in epithelial ovarian tumors are still very uncommon.

Source:
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