A new model can predict a woman's risk of breast, ovarian and womb cancer

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The probability (absolute risk) of a woman developing breast, ovarian, and endometrial (womb) cancer can all be predicted using easily obtainable information on known risk factors for these cancers, according to a study by US researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Ruth Pfeiffer from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, USA and colleagues from institutions throughout the US, developed statistical models based on risk factors of these three common cancers that could help with clinical decision making.

The authors developed these models by using information from two large US studies that included white, non-Hispanic women aged over 50 years and by including commonly known risk factors, such as parity (the number of children a women delivered), body mass index (an indicator of the amount of body fat), use of oral contraceptives, and menopausal status and use of menopausal hormone therapy. The resulting models were able to predict individual women's risk of each cancer: for example, individual women's risk for endometrial cancer calculated using this model ranged from 0.5% to 29.5% over the next 20 years depending on their exposure to various risk factors.

The authors say: "These models predict absolute risks for breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers from easily obtainable risk factors and may assist in clinical decision-making."

They add: "Limitations are the modest discriminatory ability of the breast and ovarian models and that these models may not generalize to women of other races."

In an accompanying Perspective, Lars Holmberg from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden and Andrew Vickers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (uninvolved in the study) support the focus of the model on helping with clinical-decision making and say: "Ruth Pfeiffer and colleagues present models for absolute risks and thereby avoid the common mistake of proclaiming a substantial relative risk as clinically relevant without considering the background risk."

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Research Article

Funding: The manuscript was developed with support from the Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Citation: Pfeiffer RM, Park Y, Kreimer AR, Lacey JV Jr, Pee D, et al. (2013) Risk Prediction for Breast, Endometrial, and Ovarian Cancer in White Women Aged 50 y or Older: Derivation and Validation from Population-Based Cohort Studies. PLoS Med 10(7): e1001492. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001492

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The probability (absolute risk) of a woman developing breast, ovarian, and endometrial (womb) cancer can all be predicted using easily obtainable information on known risk factors for these cancers, according to a study by US researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

Ruth Pfeiffer from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, USA and colleagues from institutions throughout the US, developed statistical models based on risk factors of these three common cancers that could help with clinical decision making.

The authors developed these models by using information from two large US studies that included white, non-Hispanic women aged over 50 years and by including commonly known risk factors, such as parity (the number of children a women delivered), body mass index (an indicator of the amount of body fat), use of oral contraceptives, and menopausal status and use of menopausal hormone therapy. The resulting models were able to predict individual women's risk of each cancer: for example, individual women's risk for endometrial cancer calculated using this model ranged from 0.5% to 29.5% over the next 20 years depending on their exposure to various risk factors.

The authors say: "These models predict absolute risks for breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancers from easily obtainable risk factors and may assist in clinical decision-making."

They add: "Limitations are the modest discriminatory ability of the breast and ovarian models and that these models may not generalize to women of other races."

In an accompanying Perspective, Lars Holmberg from Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden and Andrew Vickers from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (uninvolved in the study) support the focus of the model on helping with clinical-decision making and say: "Ruth Pfeiffer and colleagues present models for absolute risks and thereby avoid the common mistake of proclaiming a substantial relative risk as clinically relevant without considering the background risk."

###

Research Article

Funding: The manuscript was developed with support from the Intramural Research Program of the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health. No funding bodies had any role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Citation: Pfeiffer RM, Park Y, Kreimer AR, Lacey JV Jr, Pee D, et al. (2013) Risk Prediction for Breast, Endometrial, and Ovarian Cancer in White Women Aged 50 y or Older: Derivation and Validation from Population-Based Cohort Studies. PLoS Med 10(7): e1001492. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001492

IN YOUR COVERAGE PLEASE USE THIS URL TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE FREELY AVAILABLE PAPER:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001492

Contact:

Office of Media Relations
National Cancer Institute
UNITED STATES
ncipressofficers@mail.nih.gov

Perspective Article

Funding: No specific funding was received to write this article.

Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

Citation: Holmberg L, Vickers A (2013) Evaluation of Prediction Models for Decision-Making: Beyond Calibration and Discrimination. PLoS Med 10(7): e1001491. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001491

IN YOUR COVERAGE PLEASE USE THIS URL TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO THE FREELY AVAILABLE PAPER:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001491

Contact:

Lars Holmberg
Medical School, King's College London
Division of Cancer Studies
UNITED KINGDOM
+44 (0)20 7188 7904
lars.holmberg@kcl.ac.uk

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Leon Washington wants to go beyond special teams for Patriots

Leon Washington is ready to do more than just return kicks and punts for the New England Patriots.

But if that?s all the free agent signee gets to do for his new team, he sounds ready to live with it.

?Ever since I was a rookie, I was always a team player,? Washington said Sunday, after the team?s first full-pads practice. ?That?s been my main focus. Knowing I could so many different things well -- running the ball, catching the ball, returning kicks, (I) even made tackles (on special teams) sometimes in my career.

?That?s the same approach I have here - coming in, helping the team out the best way I can.?

Washington, now 31, debuted with the New York Jets and played the last three seasons with Seattle. A 98-yard kick return for a touchdown last year gave him eight kick return TDs in his seven-year career, tying him with Josh Cribbs for the NFL record.

With Danny Woodhead leaving the Patriots for San Diego, there?s an opening for an all-purpose third-down back in New England. Shane Vereen will likely get most of that work and there?s a chance Washington won?t get much time.

?He?s played back there before but not a lot recently with the Seahawks,? Belichick said. ?We?ll put him in our system, teach him the things that he needs to learn at that position, evaluate him with the other players.?

Washington?s offensive plays indeed dwindled the last two years. Asked if that was disappointing, though, he said, ?No, not really.

?Obviously, I?m a competitor and want to be on the football field, want to be out there and help the team out as much as I can. But not really - we won a bunch of games when I was in Seattle, being a team player is the most important thing.?

He said he came to New England for the ?obvious? reasons.

?You watch this organization from afar, you see how well they do things here,? he said. ?It?s a winning organization. They believe in winning, they believe in competing.

?The most important thing that I love, that I?ve seen so far, is everybody is all about the team. Everybody is going to do whatever they do to help the team win. That?s impressive, watching it from afar. Everything when they guys come out and compete, hear them talking to the media, hear guys talking in the weight room, everything is all about the team.?

Belichick said the first day in pads is the start of the evaluation process of the bigger players on the team - the tacklers and blockers.

?It feels great,? said veteran guard Logan Mankins, who spent much of his morning dealing with Vince Wilfork on the other side of the line. ?Pretty tired right now but it?s always nice to start playing real football - to see where you?re at where you need to go.?

Wilfork stripped Stevan Ridley of the ball in a goal-line situation, one of two fumbles by Ridley on the day. (Jerod Mayo snared the other one out of the air), which led to some extra running for the back.

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Tim Tebow was a bit better on Day 3 - hardly perfect, but better -- connecting on a pair of long touchdown passes. . Tom Brady had a pass intercepted by Kyle Arrington. . Rookie wide receiver Aaron Dobson had another strong day and fellow rookie Josh Boyce made his first impression. . Actor Robert Duvall, who has visited the Whitey Bulger murder trial, was at camp chatting with New England owner Robert Kraft. Also spotted: former Pats Troy Brown and Christian Fouria. . Belichick said defensive end Armond Armstead is on the non-football illness list for something not related to previous heart problems. . Linebacker Dane Fletcher, who missed all last season with a knee injury, is on the field. ?I don?t think he?s had any physical limitations to what we?ve done,? Belichick said. . The quarterbacks have video cameras attached to their helmets, another evaluation tool. ?We?ll take a look at it and see what we get out of it,? Belichick said. . Former linebacker Tedy Bruschi and retiring broadcaster Gil Santos will enter the team?s Hall of Fame before Monday night?s practice.

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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes surprise visit to troops at Tarin Kot base in Afghanistan

Updated July 28, 2013 07:39:44

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his wife Therese Rein have made a surprise visit to Australian troops in Afghanistan.

Mr Rudd visited the Australian base in Tarin Kot to thank troops for their service.

It was Mr Rudd's fifth visit to the base.

His first came a just a week after he was elected prime minister in 2007.

Mr Rudd told the troops that it had been a hard, protracted war and that it is time for them to come home.

"Your mums and dads, your brothers and sisters, your wives and husbands and partners, and your kids are all enormously proud of you," he said.

"It's time we brought you home.

"When the flag of Australia is brought down for the last time a few months from now, you will have been?a part of history."

Ms Rein said she was proud to have shaken hands with many of the soldiers.

By the end of the year, 1,000 of the remaining 1,300 Australian troops will have returned to Australia.

Some 300 will remain as advisers and trainers based in Kabul and Kandahar.

The Tarin Kot base will be gifted to the Afghan National Army.

Forty Australian soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since 2002.

Topics: defence-forces, defence-and-national-security, government-and-politics, federal-government, afghanistan, australia

First posted July 28, 2013 05:47:10

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-07-28/kevin-rudd-makes-surprise-visit-to-troops-in-afghanistan/4848252

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Why PR is your best marketing weapon ? and how to use it ...

Our corporate motto should have been, ?We?ve never heard of you either.? At least, that is how we joked at my first startup, Seer Technologies, which we founded in 1990.

We had broken records by growing a nascent software company into a $118 million-per-year revenue machine.? And we had pulled off a successful IPO in just five years. ?Not even the legends of that time ? Microsoft and Oracle ? had achieved such a feat.? Yet people would say they had never heard of us.

To say that this was frustrating would be an understatement. It was a matter not of ego, but of credibility and awareness. ?Because we weren?t known, we had to struggle to find every sales lead. ?On every sales call, we wasted valuable time explaining who the company was before we could talk about our products.

This wasn?t for lack of investment or effort. ?We spent a fortune on marketing. ?Our oversized marketing department hired overpriced agencies to design logos and to develop marketing materials. ?They produced beautiful videos and gorgeous brochures. ?We hosted extravagant customer events. ?We purchased full-page ads in magazines.

The problem was that we didn?t understand the most powerful marketing tool of all: public relations (PR). ?We assumed that business success would automatically translate into recognition. ?And we were overly cautious about what we said in public?so that we were ?known for the right things?.

Our cautious approach meant that we turned down many interview requests, and carefully scripted our answers to the ones we did accept. The result was predictable:?Over a period of six years, our company was featured in 20 to 30 articles in total. ?And these were mostly in small trade publications or the local press.

Generating buzz for a 12x valuation increase

When I founded my own business, Relativity Technologies, in 1997, I decided to take a completely different tack. ?We gave PR precedence over marketing and decided we would talk about whatever the media was interested in. ?My employees and I might make mistakes, be misquoted, and perhaps give out too much information, but I was willing to take the chance. ?We would have a policy of being accessible to and totally open with the media, customers, and investors. ?We would let our guard down and be ourselves.

Our products were really boring: We produced legacy systems modernization software. So we had to find a different way of getting attention. ?We decided that Relativity?s best buzz generator would be our staff of Russian programmers, who had formerly performed top-secret coding for the Russian military and intelligence. ?We began selling ourselves as an exciting company with a James Bond edge.

The strategy worked. ?Even though we were located in what was then a technology backwater ? Durham, N.C. ? we were getting as much attention as the hot dot-com startups during the Internet bubble. ?In just the first five years, we were featured on all the major TV networks and in more than 1000 articles in major business publications worldwide.?Fortune magazine?lauded us as one of the 25 ?coolest? companies in the world. ?The Wall Street Journal?featured us in more than a dozen articles?including two on its front page.

Most of these articles weren?t about our products but about our opinions. ?That was okay, because, as we saw, the credibility that you build as an opinion leader spills over into everything else that you do.

As a result, our mailboxes were flooded with enquiries from potential customers and job applicants. ?Our employees showed a much greater sense of pride. ?At a time when the worth of a technology company was measured by how well it was known, our market valuation increased by a factor of 12. ?We were able to raise millions in order to expand.

7 ways to get great PR

The question you will ask is: How does one get PR ? and what does it cost?

The good news is that PR doesn?t have to cost much. ?You don?t need to hire high-priced agencies that specialize in racking up big bills and spamming journalists. ?But it does require corporate executives ? preferably the CEO ? to take a proactive approach and to be open and available.

Here are my tips.

1. Read dozens of business publications. ?Understand what topics are newsworthy and which journalist writes about what topic. ?You will find that journalists are always under tight deadlines, have specific ?beats? that they cover, and are looking to inform their readers of the latest trends and explain their meaning. ?Write to them and offer your insights. ?You will find that most journalists do write back to you.
2. Focus on the needs of the journalist and not yours. ?No one is interested in your product. ?If a journalist asks you a question, answer that, and don?t obsess with getting your product covered. ?Build a relationship over time, and it will likely pay off with your getting the coverage that you are looking for.
3. If you do have something to announce, put it in the context of a ?news hook?. ?Make your message timely and relevant to what is happening in the industry or the world.
4. Don?t ignore small or regional publications. ?You may want to be in?The Wall Street Journal, but it is not likely to cover you until you have built great credibility. ?Your best starting point is small, industry-oriented or regional publications. ?They are a lot easier to approach and will likely be interested in breaking your story.
5. Be available?even when you are busy. ?Journalists on tight deadlines need sources to quote as fast as they can get them. ?The first to respond usually get featured.
6. Be honest. ?You will find that journalists have excellent ?bullshit detectors?.? If you mislead them even once, not only will they never write about you in a positive way; they?re likely to tell their associates about their experience. ?I confide in journalists all the time. ?I have not had even one journalist report on something that I said was off the record or was on background.
7. Be yourself, and express strong opinions. ?If you?re going to hedge your bets or be diplomatic, your message will drown in caveats.

When all else fails, write your own story yourself. ?The blogosphere has democratized journalism over the past few years, and there are hundreds of blog sites where you can post your opinions. ?You can even set up your own. If you keep this fresh and provide reasons for people to come back for more, you will find that you build a loyal following.

It doesn?t work as in the movie?Field of Dreams, in which, ?If you build it, they will come.? ?So create the nice marketing plans, fancy logos, slick slogans, and great brand names.? But remember that what really makes impact is getting the word out.

Vivek Wadhwa?is vice president of innovation and research at Singularity University and Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University.?

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/07/22/pr-marketing-weapon/

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DOs Urge Exploration of Alternative State Funding Models for Physician Training

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CHICAGO, July 20, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --?Recognizing the need to increase graduate medical education (GME) funding to support the creation of more residency training positions that are needed to fill projected physician workforce shortages, the American Osteopathic Association's (AOA) House of Delegates voted today to support the creation of alternative GME funding mechanisms at the state level.

The current single largest funder of GME is the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Additional funding is provided by the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Public Health Service. Since the enactment of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, teaching hospitals have been prohibited from increasing the number of resident physician training positions in their institutions. Many communities, especially those that are experiencing or have experienced a rapid population growth, are beginning to face limited access to physician services as a result.

"With federal and state budgets looking to cut spending, GME programs are particularly vulnerable," explains Joseph A. Giaimo, DO, an AOA board-certified internist and pulmonologist in private practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and a member of the AOA Board of Trustees. "To address GME funding shortfalls, there is a critical need to examine all viable GME funding models."

In passing the resolution, delegates called on the osteopathic medical profession to encourage and support the exploration of state-level GME funding initiatives that are aligned with state health policy priorities, such as an all-payor system and other alternative models that work to overcome physician workforce shortage concerns, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

About the House of Delegates
The AOA's House of Delegates, comprised of more than 500 delegates representing osteopathic state medical associations, specialty societies, interns, residents and students from throughout the country, meets annually in July to set organizational policies and elect new officers.?

About the American Osteopathic Association
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) proudly represents its professional family of more than 104,000 osteopathic physicians (DOs) and osteopathic medical students; promotes public health; encourages scientific research; serves as the primary certifying body for DOs; is the accrediting agency for osteopathic medical schools; and has federal authority to accredit hospitals and other health care facilities. More information on DOs/osteopathic medicine can be found at www.osteopathic.org.

SOURCE American Osteopathic Association

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Sherlock spoiler: A wedding is set for Season 3!

Home > Television > Spoiler Warning! > Sherlock spoiler: A wedding is set for Season 3!

July 19th, 2013.

PBS? detective drama, Sherlock, will be back for its third season sometime next year ? but a preview was recently released on Thursday?s San Diego Comic-Con panel. Based on a rough-cut clip shown by executive producer Sue Vertue, Sherlock?s (Benedict Cumberbatch) best bud is getting married. In keeping with the original story line for Sherlock Holmes, John Watson (Martin Freeman) is tying the knot, with Holmes as his best man.?It?s not a new spoiler, strictly speaking.??Hot off the presses from 110 years ago? John does get married,? says co-creator Steven Moffat.

A few details of last season finale?s suicide scene was also revealed. Watson watched as Holmes jumped off a building, but of course, it?s Sherlock, so we can pretty much expect that he?s not killed of the show. An episode in the third season, ?Empty Hearse?, will explain how Holmes faked his death. According to Moffat, the explanation is rational, and that ?when you see the answer, you?ll see that yes, we did know in advance. We had to plot it out.?

What?s going to be interesting (or painful) to watch is how Watson would deal with his ?death?, and finding out two years later that he is alive. Moffat describes it as a ?complicated emotional journey and extremely funny.?

It was also revealed that Andrew Scott is reprising his role as Moriarty, but Moffat assures he is doing so from beyond the grave. The producers joked that Scott was asked back because he cost less than a mannequin.

Sherlock returns in 2014 on PBS. A premiere date is yet to be announced.

by Kim Barloso

Kim is a TV fanatic who has the ability to find time to sit and watch her favorite shows, when she probably should be doing something else.

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Winning rodeo coach leaves N.M. college

C.J. Aragon, who lead Mesalands Community College rodeo teams to national prominence, has resigned to take over the lead coaching position for the Odessa College Wranglers in Odessa, Texas, the Quay County Sun reported.

Aragon, 38, called the move a ?once in a lifetime opportunity,? the Sun said.

?It has been a great ride for the past six years,? Aragon told the paper.

Before Aragon took over the rodeo program in 2007, the Tucumcari college ranked 117th in the nation and had sent only one team to the College National Finals Rodeo, the Sun said.

Aragon?s record includes a No. 1 nationally ranked women?s team from Mesalands and qualifying to compete as a team five times at the CNFR in Casper, Wyo., according to the Sun.

The Mesalands women?s team finished 11th in the nation at the 2013 CNFR with 165 points, with Macy Fuller of Wittman, Ariz., finishing fourth in the women?s all-around, the paper reported. The Mesalands men?s team ended the year 24th in the nation.

Aragon was named coach of the year four times in the Grand Canyon Region and was the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Assocation?s Coach of the Year in 2010, the Sun said.

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AP PHOTOS: Protests against Zimmerman acquittal

Demonstrations erupted across the United States ? ranging from dozens to hundreds ? in support of the family of Trayvon Martin. Protesters marched against the not guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman for the shooting of the unarmed black teenager.

At New York City's Middle Collegiate Church in Manhattan, congregants wore hooded sweatshirts ? as the 17-year-old Martin did the night he was shot.

And in Manhattan's Union Square, hundreds of people gathered to voice their passions over the verdict, hoisting placards with images of Martin.

Protesters also gathered in Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., along with several other cities.

Here are some images from the demonstrations:

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Keyboard Case Turns Your iPad Into a Pint-Sized Piano

While there are many iPad cases out there with built in keyboards, one company is attempting to bring a more musical type of keyboard to the iPad.

Meet C.24, a two-octave wireless keyboard case for the iPad that replaces the computer keyboard from a traditional keyboard case with piano keys. The case sends MIDI input to your iPad wirelessly, and will work with any music app you have installed on the tablet.

A strip of buttons above the piano keys lets you control things such as what octave the keyboard will play in and add effects like tone modulation.

Miselu, the company who designed the keyboard, also designed an open standard for hardware expansion modules. That means that tactile controls such as faders, knobs and XY pads could also be available in the future to help you with your musical stylings.

The C.24 isn?t quite ready for the market yet. Miselu has created a Kickstarter project to help fund production of the device, and for purchasing materials for the project in higher quantities, thus making it cheaper to acquire.

A $99 donation to the Kickstarter project will get you one of the first C.24?s off the assembly line, with estimated delivery in November.

Image courtesy of Miselu

Topics: Apps and Software, Gadgets, iPad, keyboard case, Mobile, Piano, Tech

Source: http://mashable.com/2013/07/12/ipad-keyboard/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss

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