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Survival from ovarian cancer has nearly doubled in the last 30 years, according to Cancer Research UK's new figures for England and Wales released on Wednesday.summer fashion 2011

The odds of surviving five years after diagnosis for women with early stage ovarian cancer has risen from 21% in the early 1970s to 41% today.

The charity said an improvement in survival rates means every year over 1,000 more women in England and Wales are surviving ovarian cancer for at least 5 years.

However, they said more needs to be done before we see the same improvements for women diagnosed with advanced stages of the disease.

The improvement in survival for women diagnosed in the early stage is thought to be largely due to better treatments for the disease.

Ovarian cancer is the fifth most common cancer in women in the UK, where around 6,500 new cases are diagnosed every year, and in 2008, it killed 4,400 women.

It is sometimes called the "silent killer" because symptoms are difficult to spot in the early stages, and many cases are only diagnosed after the cancer has spread. It is more common in women who have been through the menopause: some 8 in 10 new cases are in women over 50.

Analysis of data from the East of England Cancer Registry (ECRIC) shows that women diagnosed with stage III ovarian cancer (spread to nearby tissue) have just over 20% chance of surviving for five years, while for women diagnosed with stage IV ovarian cancer (spread to distant tissue), this drops to below 6%.guess purses

Dr James Brenton, who is based at Cancer Research UK's Cambridge Research Institute, told the press that:

"These latest figures show improvements in treatment, such as centralisation of ovarian cancer surgery and uniform access to chemotherapy, are making a difference in helping more women survive ovarian cancer, particularly those who are diagnosed earlier."

"But we face a real challenge in translating these improvements in survival to women whose ovarian cancer has already spread," added Brenton, who also works as an ovarian cancer clinician at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's hospital.

An important improvement in chemotherapy treatment occurred in the 1980s when Cancer Research UK scientists developed the chemotherapy drug carboplatin, which treated women more successfully at first diagnosis and also offered new options for treating recurrences.

Tackling the late diagnosis problem requires better screening for ovarian cancer. There is currently a pivotal trial involving over 200,000 women that Cancer Research UK is helping to finance. The trial is testing the effectiveness of screening for ovarian cancer with ultrasound and blood tests.juicy couture swimwear

The trial has shown some promising initial results. It finishes in 2015, and the hope is that the initial promise will hold and lead to a nationwide screening programme that will detect ovarian cancer earlier and thereby save more lives.

Other areas that are showing promise are new drugs, such as the PARP inhibitors that could help women with ovarian cancer who also have faulty BRCA genes.

Brenton said ovarian cancer is beginning to be a more controllable disease, but we still have no cure for most cases.

The UK government is a "world leader in ineffective IT schemes", the Commons' Public Administration Select Committee has heard. summer fashion 2011

Professor Helen Margetts of the Oxford Internet Institute said that compared to Japan, Canada, the US and New Zealand poor e-government performance and failed ICT projects were most prevalent in the UK public sector.

She explained that problems had arisen in the UK due to contracts being awarded to a small number of ICT suppliers, and that compared to other countries the UK government had failed to retain ICT expertise.

Even though Margetts recognised recent Cabinet Office efforts to reduce the size of ICT projects and contracts and enter into re-negotiations with major suppliers, power balanceshe said the situation remained "very difficulty to tackle" due to remaining "very large" legacy contracts. For example, she noted that HMRC's contract with Capgemini which will go on into 2017.

Asked by committee chair Bernard Jenkin if the UK could learn from other countries, Margetts said no one country has the answer, describing the ICT issues as "big problems for big governments". guess handbagsBut she added that US law had mandated involvement of smaller companies in the procurement of ICT systems, suggesting this was one thing the UK could learn from.

Microsoft has seemingly outed plans for the next-generation Xbox console as jobs postings for the upcoming gaming device appear online via social job listing site Linkedin.summer fashion 2011

 

The three new positions, all of which are expressly said to relate to the Xbox console, are searching for a graphics hardware architect, a performance architect and a hardware verification engineer. Although offering an exciting prelude to an upcoming console release, the position titles suggest the next-gen Xbox is still only in the early stages of development.

 

Offering little information as to what the next-gen Xbox, or Xbox 720 as it has repeatedly been claimed to be called, will have in store for gamers. All but confirming a new Xbox is in the works, the three jobs listings say successful candidates will be working on “next generation consoles” and “future platforms.”power balance

 

Having originally launched back in 2005, the Xbox 360 has remained a top seller in the console market, repeatedly topping bitter rival Sony and the PlayStation 3. With its life cycle seemingly coming to an end, Microsoft boosted sales of the 260 late last year with the global launch of Kinect, the Xbox compatible controller free motion gaming peripheral.

 

Searching for senior Xbox staff Microsoft has declared the graphics hardware architect must have “been the lead architect and/or implementation lead of a 3D graphics core.” Adding: “The candidate must have taken designs from investigation to end-customer shipment during their career.”guess handbags

 

News of the next-gen Xbox plans come just a day after Nintendo was rumoured to be preparing the Wii 2 for launch as the second-generation Wii is touted as heading to a June unveiling at E3 with an inbuilt Blu-ray player, quad-core processor and a projector.

 

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The Government may buy badly damaged land off people in Christchurch to help them move on following the devastating earthquakes that have hit the city, Prime Minister John Key said today.summer fashion 2011

Asked by radio host Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB when the Government would make decisions such as whether it would buy damaged land off people in Christchurch, Key said that had not been top of mind, simply because of the search and rescue, and recovery efforts.

"But we're asking for all of the obvious geotechnical advice. There's been substantial liquefaction damage in parts of East Christchurch. From the GNS Scientists we know that the Port Hills have moved up about 40 centimetres, and some of those suburbs have dropped considerably," Key said this morning.

"Now last time [after the September 4 quake] we had a plan to fix up that land, to remediate it with a process which we thought would actually work. The question now is whether it will work, and we simply don't know the answer to that because there's been a lot more damage," he said.

The Government would need to go away and assess that fairly quickly.

"One thing I can say is that there's quite a lot of land in Christchurch - quite number of subdivisions - and I have had, when I was on the ground in Christchurch on Friday, quite a number of people coming up to me saying, 'look I like where I live but unfortunately this is just too difficult to deal with and if you can show meanother option I'd like the money or I'd like to move on to another property,'" Key said.

So you're looking at that? Hosking asked.guess handbags

"I think that will definitely be an option for people," Key said.

Hosking: So you're going to buy people out of a neighbourhood and move them on?

"Well that may well be an option if we can't fix up the land. But even in some cases, looking to try and help people through to another property might be the right way to go," Key said.

Hosking: And what are you going to do with the land - buy it?

"That's the thing that we have to look at. The question in some cases will be whether the land can actually be rebuilt on. We don't know that yet, we'll go and get the proper advice on that," Key said.

"But in some cases land's sunk to such a level that it'll be prone to flooding amongst other things. So whether it's even possible to rebuild on, whether it's possible to fix up in the way that we were proposing to last time, we don't know yet," he said.power balance

"But we do need to get that advice and we're getting that straight away."