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Understanding CUP
The articles below may help inform those who want more details about CUP from different perspectives. The Nursing Times article is a short and simple overview whilst the British Journal of Nursing article goes into more scientific detail. The article in Cancer Nursing Practice looks at the dilemmas and choices facing clinicians and CUP patients, particularly those with advanced disease. The MIMS article is more technical and is aimed at clinicians and researchers.
Oct 09 Cancer Nursing Practice
09 MIMS Oncology & Palliative care
Oct 08 British Journal of Nursing
Most of our information is web-based although we have a brochure for general information and fundraising purposes. A CUP booklet "Understanding cancer of unknown primary" is available from Macmillan Cancer Support on request.
The one page Q&A sheet below is easy to print-off and can also help with understanding CUP. Patient's Questions are posed by Jo's friends Director and Answers are given by oncologist Dr Harpreet Wasan.
Dr Mark Porter on BBC R4's Casenotes discusses CUP in this download (29 Mins) broadcast on 9 Feb 2010.
For a personal view of Jo and John's experiences leading to the foundation of Jo's friends see Fighting the invisible cancer on CNN.com; and, for a more specific discussion on the treatment approach using molecular profiling, see the New York Times article: Genetic tests may reveal source of mystery tumors . Click here for a short article in the Observer.
Annual Report & Accounts
The Annual Report and Accounts for Jo's friends can be seen below:
2009 Conference
Programme, speakers, sponsors can be found here with conference transcripts shown below:
DiagnosticStrategies (Varadhachary)
Research-Diagnosis and Treatment (Bridgewater)
Expert Panel-Molecular Profiling
Failing the CUP patient (Osborne)
Diagnosis by molecular classification (Erlander)
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This afternoon, I forwarded to 50 of my friends and relatives a link to your story at CNN. To this day, a lot of them have not fully understood what type of cancer my mum had.
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Kate and Rebecca’s half marathon run raises £2000 through JustGiving
