Yet another chemo drug, I think

[Guest guest]

She now presents for consolidation therapy utilizing high-dose ARC (or

whatever it is) and (s/l) donnamycin.

I am having the worst time trying to find chemo drugs today and it's

driving me nuts!! I don't even know if the donnamycin thing is a chemo drug.

Diane

-- standing in line waiting to bang head against wall :-)

[Guest guest]

Oncology is my specialty, so I think that's ara-C (often pronounced as

" air-uh-see " ) and daunomycin (yes, it's a chemo drug).

Kim Randall

www.MTuniverse.com

----- Original Message -----

She now presents for consolidation therapy utilizing high-dose ARC (or

whatever it is) and (s/l) donnamycin.

I am having the worst time trying to find chemo drugs today and it's

driving me nuts!! I don't even know if the donnamycin thing is a chemo

drug.

[Guest guest]

Diane,

I like and use Stedman's Oncology Words (3rd edition) and Stedman's

Radiology Words (3rd edition) plus *ALL* of the Stedman's Word books

(oncology involves *all* of the body systems). I use www.mtdesk.com when

looking for " new " drugs. I use www.google.com for a search engine. I've

been doing oncology for so long now that I rarely use any particular

oncology sites, but I'm sure there are some good ones out there. When I do

need a website for research, it's usually the M.D. Cancer Center

web site page where they list all their " clinical trial " investigational

drugs

http://utm-notes-db2.mdacc.tmc.edu/mdacc/ClinicalTrialsWP.nsf/ByTreatmentAge

nt?OpenView - these are typically the experimental ones that might not be

found in traditional references. Besides that, the transcription I do is

for M.D. Cancer Center, so I can usually find what I need there.

In this case, probably my extensive experience in oncology paid off, because

although I knew I had " heard " the drug before, I also did not think to spell

it beginning with " dauno- " -- I benefit a lot from my spellchecker - for

instance, typing " donnamycin " brought up " daunomycin " as a suggestion. I

could also use the wildcard feature in my spellchecker with " d*mycin " and

come up with it.

For the record, I work in WP51+ (required by my service) and use Smartype as

my " keystroke saver. " I don't use a commercial spellchecker but instead

use a modified version of the original spellchecker that comes with WP51

that has been modified over the years by experienced professional MTs, and

I've just been adding to it (very carefully) ever since. I am confident

that if it's in *my* spellchecker or *my* Smartype, that means to me that

it's been researched and verified before being entered. I keep it updated

whenever I discover " errors " (which, of course, do happen). I like it

because I can add to or delete from it at will whenever I discover an error.

Since this spellchecker does *not* check for capitalization, I rely on

Smartype for that aspect (faster than looking in a book). Whenever I

encounter new words (all the time, of course), I very carefully add them to

my spellchecker dictionary and also to Smartype in the properly capitalized

form (or not), so I rely heavily on my own resources that I've built up.

And that pretty much covers my " trade secrets " as far as oncology

transcription goes... :-)

Kim R.

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Daunomycin???? Kim, yer awesome! I could not find this thing for the life

of me! I blanked it, but now I can go back and add it in. I was looking

for donomycin, donnamycin, adonomycin. No way in heck would I have found

this one!

Since oncology is your specialty, what reference material do you use and do

you have any heme/onc sites that you suggest? I have such a hard time with

oncology stuff.

Thanks!

Diane

[Guest guest]

Daunomycin???? Kim, yer awesome! I could not find this thing for the life

of me! I blanked it, but now I can go back and add it in. I was looking

for donomycin, donnamycin, adonomycin. No way in heck would I have found

this one!

Since oncology is your specialty, what reference material do you use and do

you have any heme/onc sites that you suggest? I have such a hard time with

oncology stuff.

Thanks!

Diane

At 07:19 PM 4/19/01 -0500, you wrote:

>Oncology is my specialty, so I think that's ara-C (often pronounced as

> " air-uh-see " ) and daunomycin (yes, it's a chemo drug).

>

>Kim Randall

>www.MTuniverse.com

>

>----- Original Message -----

>

>

>She now presents for consolidation therapy utilizing high-dose ARC (or

>whatever it is) and (s/l) donnamycin.

>

>I am having the worst time trying to find chemo drugs today and it's

>driving me nuts!! I don't even know if the donnamycin thing is a chemo

>drug.