Linda and Kristen. Probably Christmas
From time to time I have complained about the ubiquitous tendency, almost a compulsion,
on the part of cancer researchers to festoon their papers with acronyms. Several papers and/or proposals that
I have attempted to understand had so many of these little capital-letter
decorations that I have had to resort to compiling an Acronym Dictionary to make any progress. Well,
in my new role as a guy trying to help Dr. Saul Rivkin advance the cause of
ovarian cancer independence in the human race, I have just been given a 90-page
protocol to digest. As evidence of Dr.
Rivkin’s superiority to other researchers, or possibly simply of his compassion,
the article begins with a Dictionary of Acronyms. Three full pages of acronyms! I foresee a long battle.
The protocol describes a Stage 1 clinical trial that we
(MRC) are running. It is for women with
advanced ovarian cancer who have relapsed.
Participants are being recruited from all over the west; at least one
woman lives in Alaska. I wish this trial
had been available four years ago.
DoD cancer fact #5: Use of estrogen alone as a postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy for 10 or more years increases the risk of ovarian cancer.
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