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Issue #16

Relieving Pain--Part 1
Primer on Pain Medications
Someone You Should Know
Your Turn
Newsbits
Gift Card

Newsbits/Resource Update. . .

BMT Newsletter is published bi-monthly. To add your name to the mailing list write BMT Newsletter, 2900 Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park IL 60035 or phone 847-433-3313 or toll-free 888-597-7674, fax to 847-433-4599 or e-mail your name and address to help@bmtnews.org. You may also visit our website at www.bmtnews.org.

BMT Newsletter is written and published by Susan Stewart, a former BMT patient and executive director of a statewide consumer advocacy organization. Advisors on this issue were:

F. Peter Buckley MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA

Steven P. Smith Pharm.D
Shands Hospital
Gainesville FL

Karen Syrjala Ph.D
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA

Martin S. Tallman MD
Northwestern University Medical School
Chicago IL

Gary Yee Pharm.D
University of Florida College of Pharmacy
Gainesville FL

The International Myeloma Foundation publishes a quarterly newsletter and sponsors conferences of interest to multiple myeloma patients. A "patient-to-patient" network is being established to enable patients to talk to others with multiple myeloma from the comfort of their own homes. Phone 800-452-CURE or write IMF, 2129 Stanley Hills Dr., Los Angeles CA 90046.

The National Lymphedema Network publishes a quarterly newsletter with information of interest to lymphedema patients and health care providers, operates a 24 hot line, helps set up support groups, and refers patients to lymphedema treatment centers. Phone 800-541-3259.


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