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The Electronic Sarcoma Update Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 6

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In This Issue

Feature Articles

A Milestone

Editorial by Bruce Shriver

Osteosarcoma: A Practitioner's Quick Reference Guide

Lindy Eddinger a Quick Reference Guide that she designed and is now available for anyone to use.

Grants Fund Two Research Studies on Ewing's Sarcoma

Bruce Shriver describes two new grants that the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative has just funded

Vaccine Study Now Underway

An update about of a study jointly funded by the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative and the Brian Morden Foundation

Jean-Yves Blay, M.D., Ph.D. and Denise Reinke, APRN, BC, AOCN Join Medical Editorial Board

We are pleased to announce that a distinguished physician and a distinguished sarcoma nurse practitioner have joined our Medical Editorial Board

From a Nurse's Perspective

Denise Reinke introduces the column which will start with the February 2007 issues of ESUN.

Regular Columns

Clinical Trial News 

Tom Swartz describes various clinical trials
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Currently Accepting Eligible Patients (not previously published in ESUN)

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Not Yet Recruiting Patients (not previously published in ESUN)

Odds & Ends 

Pointers to resources and interesting articles and information about upcoming sarcoma-related events and fundraisers. In this issue's column:
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caBIG™ Entering its 3rd Year

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LMSeAlerts: Leiomyosarcoma News

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Financial and Scholarship Assistance Resources for Families that have Children with Cancer or other Life-Threatening Diseases

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Sarcoma-UK Newsletter

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Sarcoma Patient Information Pathway

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Bone Cancer Research Trust

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British Sarcoma Group

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European Cancer Patient Coalition

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Talking To Your Children About Your Cancer Diagnosis & Treatment

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BSD Medical Announces Completion of 340 Sarcoma Patient Chemotherapy and Hyperthermia Study

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$120m Gift for Cancer Research, Including Sarcoma

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Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation Announces 2006 Grant Awards

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Guidesmith - Leadership, Teamwork, and Decision-Making in High-Stakes Situations

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Cancer Terms to Know

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Brian Morden Foundation to Benefit from "Season of Sharing"

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Two by Two T-Shirt Campaign

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2006 Catwalk for a Cure – a Smashing Success

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Upcoming Conferences, Meetings, Events and Fund Raisers

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At Press Time

Our Initiatives

Brief descriptions of some of the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative projects are presented. In this issue:

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CTOS Presentation — Annual Report of the Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Imitative

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Two New Research Grants Announced

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Team Sarcoma 2007 Initiative

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The New Clinical Trials Subweb

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The "Sarcoma Knows No Borders" Bracelet 

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Music CD, The Circle, Benefits Sarcoma Research

Research Corner

Abstracts of recent sarcoma-related research articles. In this issue:
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12th Annual CTOS Meeting

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Image guided surgery: New technology for surgery of soft tissue and bone sarcomas  

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The Radiation Response of Sarcomas by Histologic Subtypes: A Review With Special Emphasis Given to Results Achieved With Razoxane

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Alveolar soft-part sarcoma: a review and update

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Liposarcoma in adult limbs treated by limb-sparing surgery and adjuvant radiotherapy

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The SYT-SSX fusion protein down-regulates the cell proliferation regulator COM1 in t(x;18) synovial sarcoma

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Combined Transcriptional and Translational Targeting of EWS/FLI-1 in Ewing's Sarcoma

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NR0B1 Is Required for the Oncogenic Phenotype Mediated by EWS/FLI in Ewing's Sarcoma

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Caveolin-1 (CAV1) Is a Target of EWS/FLI-1 and a Key Determinant of the Oncogenic Phenotype and Tumorigenicity of Ewing's Sarcoma Cells

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Complications Associated with Neoadjuvant Radiotherapy in the Multidisciplinary Treatment of Retroperitoneal Sarcomas

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A review of vaccine clinical trials for non-small cell lung cancer

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Staging of Primary Malignancies of Bone

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Quality of Life After Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion for Locally Advanced Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcoma 

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A Phase II Trial of Isolated Limb Infusion With Melphalan and Dactinomycin for Regional Melanoma and Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the Extremity

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Use of Distal Femoral Osteoarticular Allografts in Limb Salvage Surgery

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Wild-type p53 Inhibits Nuclear Factor-κB–Induced Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 Promoter Activation: Implications for Soft Tissue Sarcoma Growth and Metastasis 

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Osteoclasts Direct Bystander Killing of Bone Cancer

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Prognostic factors and expression of p53 and mdm-2 in uterine sarcomas

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World's Largest Clinical Trial Into Osteosarcoma Well Underway Conference Hears 

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Protocol for the Examination of Specimens From Patients With Soft Tissue Tumors of Intermediate Malignant Potential, Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors, and Benign/Locally Aggressive and Malignant Bone Tumors

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Longer Infusion Times for Anthracyclines Reduce Cardiac Damage

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Electroporation Therapy in Soft Tissue Sarcoma: A Potentially Effective Novel Treatment

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NIH Director's Pioneer Award

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NIH Announces Licensing Opportunities for Rare Disease Technologies

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Patients' Views on Financial Conflicts of Interest in Cancer Research Trials

Stories of Courage and Hope 

Tom Swartz abstracts several inspiring stories we have recently encountered about patients or caregivers that tell of the strength that some are blessed with in dealing with sarcoma. In this issue's column:
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Cancer survivor back to being a marathon man 

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Lonely world of teenage patients

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Physician competing in Ironman Triathlon not competing for himself 

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This year Richard's gratitude is unending

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Reclaiming his strength and spirit 

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Jonty's 100 pals are for the high jump! 

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Teen battling cancer seeks clothes for his 'angel' -- Mom

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Families hoof it for a cause 

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A sense of survival  

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Cards of Hope 

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Live, In Concert - And coming to a living room near you

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Tireless Fifth-Grader, Cancer Patient, An Inspiration

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Artificial limbs offer optimistic futures

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The Bracelet Lady Keeps Her Promise

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Goodbye Hannah

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