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Local Research, Global Results


At Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin physicians and scientists are committed to finding new ways to diagnose and treat a wide range of diseases and disorders.


This commitment, which distinguishes an academic medical center, is an important advantage for patients who receive care at Froedtert & The Medical College.


Individualized Treatment for Ovarian Cancer


Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. When ovarian cancer does come back, it greatly diminishes the patient’s chances of survival.


A A research project under way seeks to improve the odds of survival by better matching


medications with individual patients. Led by Dr. Rader and William Bradley, MD, Medical College of Wisconsin gynecologic


oncologists, and teaming with UW-Madison and Medical College bioinformaticists (those who apply computer science, statistics and mathematics to biological systems), researchers are analyzing existing tumor databases, including 500-plus ovarian tumor samples collected by the nationwide Cancer Genome Atlas Project (TCGA).


“We’re looking at the tendencies of the cancers and expression of genes, hoping to find out


which cancers and which gene expression patterns respond to certain treatments,” Dr. Bradley said. By examining how tumor cells have responded to different therapies, Drs. Rader and Bradley expect to develop a profile for predicting which drugs will work best on each patient.


The research is being funded through the support of Froedtert Hospital Foundation donors. n


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after a series of high-profile infant deaths in Milwaukee resulting from adults co-sleeping with babies. “It is heart wrenching — some of the babies who died came through our unit,” said Marilynn


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Klemstein, BSN, RN, and an international board-certified lactation consultant, who developed We CARE with colleague Nicole Abraham, BSN, RN, who is a certified lactation counselor.


Now, patients receive safe-sleep education, including an overview of factors that can reduce


Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), an explanation of the difference between room- and bed-sharing and a discussion of alternatives to expensive cribs, Marilynn said.


“Through the project, we will also follow up with phone calls to re-emphasize safe-sleep


practices,” she said. The program will eventually repeat safe-sleep concepts at numerous touch points, such as during prenatal consultations, upon patient admission to the hospital, during their stay and at discharge.


“It sounds cliché, but it’s all worthwhile if we can save even one life,” Marilynn said. n 4 Froedtert Today May 2011 froedtert.com Addressing Infant Mortality


urses at Froedtert & The Medical College initiated and are leading a new project addressing the high infant mortality rate in our community. Called We CARE, the project will help new parents understand safe sleep practices and the risks of bed sharing. It was initiated by nurses in the Birth Center and the Mother/Baby Unit


bout 500 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer annually in Wisconsin. Even after treatment, this disease recurs in about 75 percent of patients, according to Janet Rader, MD, a Medical College of Wisconsin gynecologic oncologist and chair of the


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