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- Nick Lanyi
How age affects biomarkers for ovarian cancer, feeling better by doing good, and laboratory stories meant for bedtime. These stories and more are coming up next. This is Path News Network Daily Edition from the College of American Pathologists. I'm Nick Lanyi. It's Monday, May 4th. Researchers continue to make progress in the search for definitive biomarkers for earlier detection of ovarian cancer. A new study in the Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine found that half the biomarkers associated with ovarian cancer are affected by age. Researchers from the University of South Carolina evaluated biomarkers from 913 women without ovarian cancer. They observed that older age correlated with significant changes in the concentrations of 10 of the 20 biomarkers they studied. Eight increased with age and two decreased. The study concludes that the patient's age needs to be taken into account when deciding on biomarker thresholds for early detection of ovarian cancer. The CAP and several dozen medical associations expressed growing concern last week that health insurers continue to circumvent the No Surprises Act, which was designed to protect patients from surprise medical bills. The 2022 law also created an independent dispute resolution process, known as IDR, to promote fair contracting between payers and physicians. Among other issues, health insurers are reducing or delaying payments to providers or charging more to patients after IDR decisions in the provider's favor. The CAP and other medical associations co-signed a letter asking the Secretaries of Health and human services, labor, and treasury. to step up enforcement efforts and require greater transparency in the IDR process. A declining percentage of teens and young adults are volunteering in their communities, and that could be one reason they're also reporting more mental health challenges. That's the theme of the latest episode in the CAP Foundation's podcast series, Beyond the Test, Connecting Communities Through Pathology. It featured an interview with Magdalena Alioto Grace, a first-year medical student at Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois, who definitely has bucked the generational trend. In college at Georgetown University, she volunteered with a sexual assault response and prevention program. After graduating, she worked in emergency rooms in New York City to help sexual assault survivors start to cope with their experience.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I have two younger sisters, and I think part of the reason I got involved in the sexual assault work was because I just knew that I would want someone to be there for them or anyone else I loved if they ever or if they had to go through an experience like that. And I think that really drove me to do it.
- Nick Lanyi
While in New York, Aliotto Grace also conducted research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in gynecological oncology. focusing on fertility-sparing surgical approaches for cervical cancer. Now, as a medical student, she's working with the CAP Foundation to help women get access to essential health care.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I've kind of transitioned my advocacy and service into more cancer screenings, and that's actually how I got involved with the CAP Foundation, is I work with them on a T-Test and Treat, which is an amazing initiative that offers free breast and cervical and more cancer screenings now to women without insurance. And I think that advocating for people who wouldn't otherwise have those resources is just so fundamental in being a physician and I guess in who I am. And so I think I'm taking those previous experiences working one on one in the yards and on college campuses and just noticing what resources people use, when they use them, how they use them and the accessibility of them and kind of implementing that into who I want to become as a physician.
- Nick Lanyi
Halioto Grace said her service experiences helped not only her community, but herself. She had this advice for young people interested in service.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I would really just say give everything your all. Try everything, things you wouldn't expect you want to do. You can do it with other people too, like classmates or anything like that. I think just get as involved as you can, and then you'll be able to figure out kind of where to go from there. And I think the more experiences you have, the better you understand yourself. what you want to do and the ways that you are like most equipped to kind of give back.
- Nick Lanyi
And finally, when children ask for a bedtime story, it rarely features microscopes and tissue samples. But it could, thanks to two new children's books about pathology and laboratory science. Mia, the Marvelous Lab Explorer, stars a tiny laboratory superhero who dives into blood samples to help pathologists solve medical mysteries, a talking microscope named Micah, and a young boy with leukemia named Leo. Co-authors Dr. Kamran Mirza, clinical professor and assistant chair of pathology at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dr. Lotte Mulder, senior education program manager at the American Society of Clinical Pathology, hope the book lifts the burden from parents who need to explain illnesses and medical research to their kids. In the ABCs of laboratory medicine, each letter stands for a different lab science concept. A is for antibodies, for example. It was written by Melody Boudreaux Nelson, Assistant Clinical Professor and Assistant Director of the CORE Laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and Stephanie Whitehead, Vice President of Pathology and Laboratory Services at University Health in San Antonio, Texas. Their idea was to introduce kids to lab science in an age-appropriate, fun way, with the goal of encouraging more kids to pursue STEM careers, including pathology. The April edition of CAP Today features interviews with the authors and information on how to order the books for that future pathologist in your life. That's all for today. See the show notes for more information on today's stories. And if you've got a story we should be covering, email us at stories at cap.org. We'll be back Tuesday at 5 a.m. Eastern for another episode of The Daily Edition. I'm Nick Lanyi. Have a wonderful day.
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- Nick Lanyi
How age affects biomarkers for ovarian cancer, feeling better by doing good, and laboratory stories meant for bedtime. These stories and more are coming up next. This is Path News Network Daily Edition from the College of American Pathologists. I'm Nick Lanyi. It's Monday, May 4th. Researchers continue to make progress in the search for definitive biomarkers for earlier detection of ovarian cancer. A new study in the Journal of Applied Laboratory Medicine found that half the biomarkers associated with ovarian cancer are affected by age. Researchers from the University of South Carolina evaluated biomarkers from 913 women without ovarian cancer. They observed that older age correlated with significant changes in the concentrations of 10 of the 20 biomarkers they studied. Eight increased with age and two decreased. The study concludes that the patient's age needs to be taken into account when deciding on biomarker thresholds for early detection of ovarian cancer. The CAP and several dozen medical associations expressed growing concern last week that health insurers continue to circumvent the No Surprises Act, which was designed to protect patients from surprise medical bills. The 2022 law also created an independent dispute resolution process, known as IDR, to promote fair contracting between payers and physicians. Among other issues, health insurers are reducing or delaying payments to providers or charging more to patients after IDR decisions in the provider's favor. The CAP and other medical associations co-signed a letter asking the Secretaries of Health and human services, labor, and treasury. to step up enforcement efforts and require greater transparency in the IDR process. A declining percentage of teens and young adults are volunteering in their communities, and that could be one reason they're also reporting more mental health challenges. That's the theme of the latest episode in the CAP Foundation's podcast series, Beyond the Test, Connecting Communities Through Pathology. It featured an interview with Magdalena Alioto Grace, a first-year medical student at Loyola University's Stritch School of Medicine in Maywood, Illinois, who definitely has bucked the generational trend. In college at Georgetown University, she volunteered with a sexual assault response and prevention program. After graduating, she worked in emergency rooms in New York City to help sexual assault survivors start to cope with their experience.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I have two younger sisters, and I think part of the reason I got involved in the sexual assault work was because I just knew that I would want someone to be there for them or anyone else I loved if they ever or if they had to go through an experience like that. And I think that really drove me to do it.
- Nick Lanyi
While in New York, Aliotto Grace also conducted research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in gynecological oncology. focusing on fertility-sparing surgical approaches for cervical cancer. Now, as a medical student, she's working with the CAP Foundation to help women get access to essential health care.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I've kind of transitioned my advocacy and service into more cancer screenings, and that's actually how I got involved with the CAP Foundation, is I work with them on a T-Test and Treat, which is an amazing initiative that offers free breast and cervical and more cancer screenings now to women without insurance. And I think that advocating for people who wouldn't otherwise have those resources is just so fundamental in being a physician and I guess in who I am. And so I think I'm taking those previous experiences working one on one in the yards and on college campuses and just noticing what resources people use, when they use them, how they use them and the accessibility of them and kind of implementing that into who I want to become as a physician.
- Nick Lanyi
Halioto Grace said her service experiences helped not only her community, but herself. She had this advice for young people interested in service.
- Magdalena Alioto Grace
I would really just say give everything your all. Try everything, things you wouldn't expect you want to do. You can do it with other people too, like classmates or anything like that. I think just get as involved as you can, and then you'll be able to figure out kind of where to go from there. And I think the more experiences you have, the better you understand yourself. what you want to do and the ways that you are like most equipped to kind of give back.
- Nick Lanyi
And finally, when children ask for a bedtime story, it rarely features microscopes and tissue samples. But it could, thanks to two new children's books about pathology and laboratory science. Mia, the Marvelous Lab Explorer, stars a tiny laboratory superhero who dives into blood samples to help pathologists solve medical mysteries, a talking microscope named Micah, and a young boy with leukemia named Leo. Co-authors Dr. Kamran Mirza, clinical professor and assistant chair of pathology at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Dr. Lotte Mulder, senior education program manager at the American Society of Clinical Pathology, hope the book lifts the burden from parents who need to explain illnesses and medical research to their kids. In the ABCs of laboratory medicine, each letter stands for a different lab science concept. A is for antibodies, for example. It was written by Melody Boudreaux Nelson, Assistant Clinical Professor and Assistant Director of the CORE Laboratory at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, and Stephanie Whitehead, Vice President of Pathology and Laboratory Services at University Health in San Antonio, Texas. Their idea was to introduce kids to lab science in an age-appropriate, fun way, with the goal of encouraging more kids to pursue STEM careers, including pathology. The April edition of CAP Today features interviews with the authors and information on how to order the books for that future pathologist in your life. That's all for today. See the show notes for more information on today's stories. And if you've got a story we should be covering, email us at stories at cap.org. We'll be back Tuesday at 5 a.m. Eastern for another episode of The Daily Edition. I'm Nick Lanyi. Have a wonderful day.
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