Volume 5, Number 8 (September 2007)

Third Annual
Chicago Supportive Oncology Conference
2007 Meeting Program and Abstracts
September 27–29, 2007, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois

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Conference Schedule

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Educational Program Abstracts

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Scientific Abstracts

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Bench to Bedside

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Malignant Gastroparesis: Pathogenesis and Management of an Underrecognized Disorder
Kavitha R. Donthireddy, MD, Sikander Ailawadhi, MD, Eiad Nasser, MD, Michael D. Schiff, MD, FACP, Chukwumere E. Nwogu, MD, Hector R. Nava, MD, and Milind M. Javle, MD

Department of Medicine and Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, and the Department of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

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PEER VIEWPOINTS
Malignant Gastroparesis: Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Satish Nagula, MD, and Mark Schattner, MD, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Service, Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

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The Riddle, Mystery, and Enigma of Gastroparesis
Pankaj Jay Pasricha, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Stanford University, Stanford, California

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Original Research

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Chemotherapy-Induced Nausea and Vomiting in Breast Cancer Patients: A Prospective Observational Study
Christopher M. Booth, MD, Mark Clemons, MD, George Dranitsaris, BPharm, MS, Anil Joy, MD, Scott Young, MD, Walter Callaghan, HBA, HBSc, Maureen Trudeau, MD, and Teresa Petrella, MD

Toronto Sunnybrook Regional Cancer Centre and Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Cross Cancer Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Northeastern Ontario Regional Cancer Centre, Sudbury, Canada

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Quality-of-Life Outcomes

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An Innovative Symptom Monitoring Tool for People With Advanced Lung Cancer: A Pilot Demonstration
Kimberly Davis, PhD, Susan Yount, PhD, Katie Del Ciello, BA, Margaret Whalen, RN, Shaheen Khan, MS, MBA, MPH, Mike Bass, MS, Hongyan Du, MS, David Eton, PhD, Gregory Masters, MD, Thomas Hensing, MD, and David Cella, PhD

Georgetown University Medical Center, Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Washington, DC; Center on Outcomes, Research and Education, Evanston, Illinois; Institute for Healthcare Studies, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois; Learning Point Associates, Naperville, Illinois; Thomas Jefferson University Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Medical Oncology Hematology Consultants, Helen F. Graham Cancer Center, Newark, Delaware

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