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Important Reminders

• 2006 ASCCP Guidelines Published

The 2006 Consensus Guidelines for the Management for Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and the Management of Cervical Intraepithelial Neoplasia and Adenocarcinoma in situ are now available for your review on the ASCCP website. You may download from the ASCCP website at http://www.asccp.org/consensus.shtml. To discuss these guidelines, follow this link. For more information about these guidelines, visit 2006 ASCCP Guidelines.

Study materials will become available on the CYTOPATHNET campus in the upcoming weeks.

• 2006 Cytology PT Test Completion Deadline Countdown: April 2, 2007- Please go to 2006 Cytology PT Follow-up for information if you did not meet this deadline.
• 2007 Cytology PT Test Completion Deadline Countdown: April 2, 2008. Please go to 2006 Cytology PT Follow-up for additional information.
• Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007: Current Bill Status
• For any State Societies, National Societies, International Societies or Cytotechnology Schools who wish to set up there own Blogs or Wiki pages, please contact me. You can reach me by email at any time. (Remember....this is a FREE service to you! Why not take advantage of it!!)

CYTOPATHNET News

Site Upgrades Continue--Move to New Server Completed
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Thu 07 of Aug, 2008 06:51 UTC  (477 Reads)

The upgrades to CYTOPATHNET continue with the successful move to a new server. This should help improve performance. During this move, the Online Campus was also upgraded to the latest version of ATutor, and is available at http://campus.cytopathnet.org. Please contact me if you notice anything that appears to not be functioning correctly.

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Site Upgrades and Fixes
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Tue 05 of Aug, 2008 00:41 UTC  (345 Reads)

We upgraded the site over the past 2 days to Tikiwiki 2.0 rc 4. This will help site performance. We were able to fix the FREETAG functionality, which allows users to click on topics and quickly find related content quickly and easily.

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Regular self-examination or clinical examination for early detection of breast cancer
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Wed 16 of Jul, 2008 00:18 UTC  (688 Reads)

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A review article published by the Cochran Collaboration was recently released and discussed on Good Morning America today. The review concludes that "...Data from two large trials do not suggest a beneficial effect of screening by breast self-examination but do suggest increased harm in terms of increased numbers of benign lesions identified and an increased number of biopsies performed. At present, screening by breast self-examination or physical examination cannot be recommended. ..." To obtain the report, please follow this link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/homepages/106568753/CD003373.pdf To find out more about the Cochran Collaboration, please follow this link: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/mrwhome/106568753/HOME

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HPV Vaccine Not Cleared for Older Women
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Tue 01 of Jul, 2008 00:21 UTC  (922 Reads)

Rating: (7.00/10)

The FDA has denied Merck's request to expand the use of Gardasil vaccine for older women 27-45 http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSWNAS917720080625?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0). The FDA stated that there were "..."issues" which precluded their approval..." of the request. The company is still pursuing its approval of intended expansion of vaccine use to males by year-end.

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National Cytotechnology Day
By: Jana Sullinger, MD  on: Sun 04 of May, 2008 00:48 UTC  (2245 Reads)

May 13 has been designated National Cytotechnology Day (NCD). Since 1985, NCD commemorates Dr. George Papanicolaou's contributions to the field of medicine, occuring on his birthday each year. May 12-18, 1985 became the first ever National Cytotechnology Week.

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Items of Interest

• Cytology Proficiency Improvement Act of 2007: Current Bill Status
• 2006 Cytology PT Educational Status Continues: Sanctions for 2006 Suspended (http://cytopathnet.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=45)
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CYTOPATHNET Online Campus

CYTOPATHNET Campus: Visit http://campus.cytopathnet.org and check out the possibilities for use. Try it out!

Site Content

For anyone interested in posting content to CYTOPATHNET, please send me a message and I will make sure you have the right permissions assigned.

I have begun recreating much of the prior content out of the old site into a new format that is based on TikiWiki. I have posted most of the CLIA Forum articles that Sandra Fite, CT(ASCP) has contributed over the years. The idea behind CYTOPATHNET has always been to create an online community for collaboration and sharing of ideas. Tiki allows for this for the adventuresome in providing a way for users to work collectively on document creation, allow for posting of news articles, online forums, and user Blogs.

I wanted to thank everyone for their continued patience and support as I implement these upgrades. As you may or may not be aware, I maintain the site alone on top of a very demanding work schedule, which has definitely cut into my time that I can devote to CYTOPATHNET. That is why it is so very important that the CYTOPATHNET community GET ACTIVE and use CYTOPATHNET in the way it was intended. It needs your DIRECT INPUT! I want to thank Sandra Fite for her longtime dedication and support in providing articles and feedback on CLIA issues. This will certainly continue (unless I hear differently from Sandra ).

And THANK YOU to our users cytocox UserPagecytocox for their contribution of commentary!!!! WELCOME ABOARD!!!

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CYTOPATHNET users who had previously registered will have to register again under this new site design. This will assure that we have the most current email address for you, and allow you to update your preferences and information.

Individual users upon registering will obtain their own person Wiki area, which will allow you to compose your own home page and personal Wiki. You can also access your personal messages here, review any Forum or Wiki/Blog watches and To-Do? lists. The best way to find out what is available to you, is to register and explore away!

What is TikiWiki?

We will be putting together a Tutorial on How-To? user TIKI for CYTOPATHNET. If you would like to help with this project, please visit this link, http://cytopathnet.org/tiki-index.php?page=Tutorial%3A+How+To+Post+to+a+Blog.

To find out more about TikiWiki, please visit this link. Then, be sure to edit and set your MyTiki settings in order to take advantage of all of the great features of this site. Your MyTiki area will allow you to set up web access to your email account, set task reminders, upload notes and files, and create your own user web page, all about you! You can read more at http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=MyTiki.