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StephN · 11-23-2009, 01:39 PM

Here is the list of other health issues this panel is working on. I don't know if the members change or how often, but they are just numbers crunchers, and I wish I knew who feeds them the data that they use to crunch on. This so-called "expert" panel can't know what is involved in treating all these conditions!

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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Topics in Progress

These topics are being reviewed by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force:

- Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia
- Cervical Cancer Screening
- Depression in Adults
- Falls in Older Adults
- Hearing Impairment, Older Adults
- Oral Cancer Screening
- Osteoporosis Screening
- Osteoporosis Preventive Medicine
- Ovarian Cancer
- Skin Cancer Counseling
- Vitamin Supplements to Prevent Cancer and CHD

Current as of November 2009

11-23-2009, 01:39 PM	#12
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: Members of the Task Force Here is the list of other health issues this panel is working on. I don't know if the members change or how often, but they are just numbers crunchers, and I wish I knew who feeds them the data that they use to crunch on. This so-called "expert" panel can't know what is involved in treating all these conditions! You Are Here: AHRQ Home > Clinical Information > U.S. Preventive Services Task Force > Topics in Progress U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Topics in Progress These topics are being reviewed by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force: - Aspirin Use to Prevent Preeclampsia - Cervical Cancer Screening - Depression in Adults - Falls in Older Adults - Hearing Impairment, Older Adults - Oral Cancer Screening - Osteoporosis Screening - Osteoporosis Preventive Medicine - Ovarian Cancer - Skin Cancer Counseling - Vitamin Supplements to Prevent Cancer and CHD Current as of November 2009 __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.