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MEETING WORKBOOK
The meeting workbook contains a section on “Controversies
and Challenges in Breast Cancer,” including new data from a
national patterns of care survey conducted for this meeting by ReedHaldyMcIntosh,
Media, Pennsylvania. The workbook also contains select clinical
trial summaries and schemas, edited commentary from research leaders
and relevant graphics and references.
EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT
The educational supplement is intended to inform and update meeting
attendees on current breast cancer clinical trials, and to encourage
physicians to enroll their patients in these studies. Most of the
protocol information was abstracted from the NCI’s PDQ (Physicians’
Data Query) database as of 1/31/02. The PDQ is continuously modified.
To obtain the most complete, accurate and up-to-date information
for clinical purposes, readers should consult the PDQ or trial investigators.
The supplement also contains select journal articles published in
2001.
BREAST CANCER UPDATE BOOTH
The Breast Cancer Update booth hosts a meeting website with an easy-to-use
representation of information from the meeting workbook and educational
supplement as well as a patterns of care survey. The website allows
users to link immediately to relevant full-text articles, abstracts,
trial information and other web resources indicated by the red underlined
text in the meeting workbook and educational supplement. During
and after this meeting, these materials will also be posted on BreastCancerUpdate.com.
SOURCE OF RESEARCH COMMENTS
Except where otherwise noted, comments from breast cancer research
leaders are from interviews in “Breast Cancer Update. Conversations
with Oncology Leaders” (editor: Neil Love, MD). Comments have
been edited for clarity.
EDITORIAL STAFF
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Editor
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Neil Love, MD |
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Associate Editors
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Michelle Finkelstein, MD
Richard Kaderman, PhD |
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Writers
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Jennifer Motley, MD
Sally Bogert, RNC, WHCNP
Madelyn Trupkin, RN
Lilliam Sklaver Poltorack, Pharm. D
Douglas Paley |
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Print Design
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John Westmark
Albert Rosado
Michael Harvey |
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Web Design
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John Ribeiro |
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Technical Services
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Arly Ledezma
Frank Cesarano |
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Production Coordinator
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Cheryl Dominguez |
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Editorial Assistants
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Patricia McWhorter
April Marcus
Tere Sosa |
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Patterns of Care Survey
Project Coordinator
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Greg McIntosh |
©2002.
NL Communications, Inc. and the Miami Cancer Conference, Inc. All
rights reserved. The meeting workbook, educational supplement and
the poster/Internet exhibit were supported by unrestricted educational
grants from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Genentech, Inc. and
Roche Laboratories, Inc., and are protected by copyright. No part
of this program may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or
by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or utilizing any information storage and retrieval system,
without written permission from the copyright owner. The opinions
expressed are not to be construed as those of the publisher or grantor.
As part of this program, materials and presentations may include
information regarding the use of drugs that may be inconsistent
with or outside the approved labeling of these products. Healthcare
professionals should note that the use of these agents outside current
approved labeling is considered experimental and are advised to
consult prescribing information for these products. Please refer
to the U.S. product information for complete information about each
drug.
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