College of Cincinnati Most cancers Middle taking a look to sign up sufferers for pancreatic most cancers vaccine trial

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OHIO PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ELECTION IS LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY. TODAY, THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S RICHARD CHILES JOINS US LIVE WITH WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET YOUR VOICE HEARD. TEMPERATURES GIVING US A TASTE OF SPRING OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. BUT SPRING CAN ALSO MEAN THUNDERSTORMS. HOW LONG WE HAVE TO GET OUTSIDE BEFORE THE WET WEATHER RETURNS, AND HOW TO DRESS FOR THE FC CINCINNATI HOME OPENER THIS WEEKEND. I LOVE THAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THAT RANDI. THANK YOU. PLUS, ANOTHER STEP CLOSER TO GETTING THE WORK STARTED ON THE BRANT SPENCE COMPANION BRIDGE TODD — LIVE. AHEAD OF PUBLIC HEARINGS ON WHY THIS WEEK, YOUR LAST CHANCE TO GET YOUR CONCERNS ON THE RECORD IN PERSON. THIS IS WLWT, WLWT NEWS FIVE TODAY, LEADING THE WAY. FREEZING TEMPERATURES TO START THE DAY, SO MAKE SURE TO KEEP THAT COAT HANDY IF YOU ARE ABOUT TO HEAD OUTSIDE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WITH US! I’M MEGAN MITCHELL KELLY RIPPIN. I’M STEVEN ALBRITTON. THE GOOD NEWS IS SUNSHINE AND 50S. LATER TODAY IT FELT GREAT YESTERDAY. METEOROLOGIST RANDI RICO TIMING OUT THAT WARM UP EVEN WARMER TO TODAY. RANDI. AND THEN OF COURSE OUR NEXT CHANCE FOR RAIN. WE’RE GOING TO GET TO 50 DEGREES PROBABLY BY LUNCH TIME TODAY. SO KNOW THAT IT’S CHILLY RIGHT NOW. FROSTY. IF YOU DO DO PARK OUTSIDE. BUT MAN, SOME REALLY NICE WEATHER COMING OUR WAY FOR ABOUT 48 HOURS AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT OUR TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW, 25 DEGREES IN CINCINNATI, LACHLAN’S ALSO AT 25 UP IN BUTLER COUNTY, 27 FOR HAMILTON, FAIRFIELD AT 24. HEADING TO COLERAIN. YOU’RE AT 25 DEGREES OVER TO THE EAST OF CINCINNATI. BATAVIA IS AT 30. SAME THING IN ANDERSON AND THEN DOWN INTO NORTHERN KENTUCKY AT 29 AND ERLANGER 27. RIGHT NOW IN BURLINGTON. SO A COLD START. WE HAD CLEAR SKIES AND CALM WINDS OVERNIGHT. FROSTY WINDSHIELDS CAN BE EXPECTED IF YOU DO PARK OUTSIDE. AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THAT FOR US FOR TOMORROW AS WE TAKE A LOOK AT HOW WE’RE GOING THROUGH THE NEXT 12 HOURS, A LOT OF SUNSHINE ON TAP TODAY, RIGHT NOW NEAR FREEZING, BUT TEMPERATURES DIVING WITH THOSE CLEAR SKIES, WE’LL SPEND A GOOD CHUNK OF THE MORNING COMMUTE IN THE UPPER 20S AS WE GET TO LUNCHTIME, THOUGH, AND WE’RE UP TO AROUND 50. OUR HIGHS TODAY LOW MID 50S AND THEN CLIMB TO THE 60S FOR TOMORROW. SO SOME NICE WEATHER TO START WITH, BUT YES, YOU’RE GOING TO NEED A COUPLE OF MINUTES TO DEFROST THE WINDSHIELD. HOPEFULLY YOU DON’T HAVE ANY EXTRA MINUTES AS FAR AS DETOURS THIS MORNING. KATIE, WHAT’S GOING ON ON THE ROADS? YEAH, LOOKING GOOD THIS MORNING. FOR MOST ROADS. 71 MASON MONTGOMERY. JUST A COUPLE OF CARS OUT AND ABOUT AS WE START OUT THE DAY. SO PRETTY QUIET. LOOKS LIKE WE DO HAVE A NEW CRASH HERE ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 275. WE’LL BRING YOU TO THAT ONE IN THE NEXT TRAFFIC UPDATE. DID WANT TO REMIND YOU OF THE LANE RESTRICTIONS ON THE NORWOOD LATERAL. SINGLE LANES ARE RESTRICTED AT THE EAST AND WESTBOUND RAMPS AT READING AND PADDOCK. WE ALSO HAVE A SINGLE LANE RESTRICTION AT ROSS UNDERNEATH THE LATERAL. THAT’S GOING TO BE ALL WEEK FROM 9 A.M. TO 3 P.M., SO PLAN ON SOME DELAYS THERE. TRAVEL TIMES FOR THE MOST PART ARE NORMAL THIS MORNING. GUYS, BACK TO YOU. ALL RIGHT KATIE THANK YOU. WE APPRECIATE IT HAPPENING TODAY DISCUSSING THE BEST WAY TO EASE TRAFFIC TROUBLES FOR PEOPLE LOOKING TO CROSS THE OHIO RIVER. THIS IS A HUGE PROJECT. OHIO AND KENTUCKY WORKING TOGETHER TO REVITALIZE THE BRANT SPENCE BRIDGE CORRIDOR WITH A COMPANION BRIDGE. TODAY. THEY WANT TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS. YES. SO WLWT NEWS FIVE’S TODD — LIVE FOR US THIS MORNING WITH WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM THESE MEETINGS AND INSIGHT AS TO THIS PROJECT’S TIMELINE. TODD, GOOD MORNING. YEAH. GOOD MORNING GUYS. YOU KNOW, IT REALLY IS, AS YOU SAID, A HUGE PROJECT. IT’S EVEN BIGGER THAN THAT. IT FEELS IT’S ONE OF THE BUSIEST TRUCKING ROUTES IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. BUT ANYBODY WHO DRIVES THE BRANT SPENCE DAILY KNOWS IT CAN JUST CREATE ALL KINDS OF BOTTLENECKS. NOW THAT THE NEW PLAN TO BUILD A COMPANION BRIDGE IS ONE STEP CLOSER TO REALITY. BUT TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS WANT TO HEAR YOUR INPUT. AND WITH THAT IN MIND, THEY’RE GOING TO BE PUBLIC COMMENT SESSIONS STARTING TODAY. THERE’S BEGINNING IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY. THEY’RE GOING TO BE TWO SESSIONS TODAY AT THE RADISSON HOTEL RIGHT HERE IN COVINGTON. THE FIRST FROM NOON UNTIL 330, FOLLOWED BY A SESSION THAT WILL GO FROM 430 TO 8:00 TONIGHT. AT EACH OF THOSE SESSIONS IS GOING TO INCLUDE A FORMAL PRESENTATION AND THEN REGULAR FOLKS CAN MAKE COMMENTS AND ASK QUESTIONS ON THE RECORD. KENTUCKY TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS TELL US THOSE QUESTIONS WILL NOT BE ANSWERED IN PERSON DURING TODAY’S SESSIONS, BUT THEY’LL THERE WILL BE WRITTEN RESPONSES THAT WILL COME OUT AND THEN MORE HEARINGS SET FOR TOMORROW RIGHT ACROSS THE RIVER IN CINCINNATI THAT WILL BE AT LONGWORTH HALL DURING THE SAME TWO TIME FRAMES. THERE’S GOING TO BE A VIRTUAL HEARING, A VIRTUAL HEARING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE THURSDAY FROM 530 TO 7 IN THE EVENING. SO A LOT GOING ON THIS WEEK AND COMING UP IN OUR NEXT HALF HOUR, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE MORE DETAILS ON THE TIME FRAME RELATED TO THE BRANT SPENCE COMPANION BRIDGE PROJECT. KEEP IN MIND, GUYS, THIS IS AN EIGHT MILE CORRIDOR PROJECT GOING FROM, UH, KYLES LANE, FORT, RIGHT? OR ACTUALLY DIXIE HIGHWAY IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY ALL THE WAY TO THE WESTERN HILLS VIADUCT. SO IT’S A BIG DEAL. AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS WANT TO KNOW WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THE PLANS AS THEY CURRENTLY ARE FOR NOW, REPORTING LIVE THIS MORNING HERE IN COVINGTON, TODD — WLWT NEWS FIVE. TODD. YES, CERTAINLY AFFECTS A LOT OF PEOPLE. THANK YOU. HAPPENING TODAY JURY DELIBERATIONS EXPECTED TO RESUME IN THE TRIAL OF A BLUE ASH MAN ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING A WOMAN. HE MET ON A DATING APP. BRIAN CARR IS FACING MULTIPLE COUNTS OF RAPE. IN THE LAST FRIDAY. JURORS SPENT MORE THAN SIX HOURS DELIBERATING AND WERE UNABLE TO REACH A VERDICT. THIS IS ONE OF THREE TRIALS FOR CARR, HE IS INDICTED IN TWO OTHER RAPE CASES. WE’LL BRING YOU ANY DEVELOPMENTS FROM COURT ONCE DELIBERATIONS. DELIBERATIONS RESUME THIS MORNING. ALSO HAPPENING TODAY, THE FORMER EMPLOYEE AT AN AT RISK YOUTH PROGRAM ACCUSED OF SEXUAL ABUSE IS EXPECTED TO APPEAR IN COURT. FRANCINE THOMAS USED TO WORK AT HILLCREST ACADEMY LAST APRIL. SHE WAS ACCUSED OF SEXUALLY ABUSING A TEEN BOY IN THE PROGRAM. THOMAS WAS FIRED AFTER THE ALLEGATIONS AND HAMILTON COUNTY TERMINATED THEIR CONTRACT WITH HILLCREST ACADEMY. SHE IS EXPECTED TO APPEAR IN A HAMILTON COUNTY COURTROOM AT 9 A.M. THIS MORNING FOR A FINAL PRETRIAL. HEARING, WITH THE TRIAL EXPECTED TO START NEXT WEEK, AN ARREST REPORT STATES. A TEEN WAS ASSAULTED AT A POPULAR VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT IN DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI. 42 YEAR OLD PAUL THURMAN WAS ARRESTED AND BOOKED INTO THE HAMILTON COUNTY JUSTICE CENTER FOR GROSS SEXUAL IMPOSITION. INVESTIGATORS SAY THURMAN WALKED UP TO A 14 YEAR OLD BOY, GRABBED HIM INAPPROPRIATELY AND ASKED HIM AN INAPPROPRIATE QUESTION. THE TEEN TOLD POLICE HE WAS ABLE TO PUSH THURMAN AWAY AND RUN TO TELL HIS PARENTS. OFFICERS TOOK THURMAN INTO CUSTODY INSIDE THE DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER JUST ABOUT TWO HOURS AFTER THAT INCIDENT, WE REACHED OUT TO THE VOLLEYBALL’S CLUB DIRECTOR AND DUKE ENERGY CENTER FOR COMMENT. BUT HAVE NOT HEARD BACK. 505 IN COMMITMENT 2024 THIS MORNING. TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN OHIO’S MARCH PRIMARIES, AND THERE ARE SOME NEW THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO REGISTER AND TO VOTE. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S RICHARD CHILES JOINS US WITH THE IMPORTANT REMINDERS AHEAD OF EARLY VOTING BEGINNING THIS WEEK. RICHARD. NOW, STEPHEN, GOOD MORNING. EARLY VOTING IN OHIO IS GOING TO GET STARTED TOMORROW SO YOU CAN TAP INTO THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS. OF COURSE, CAST THAT BALLOT. BUT IF YOU DO WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT PRIMARY FOR MARCH, YOU’RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE REGISTERED BY TODAY. NOW, THERE’S A COUPLE OF WAYS THAT YOU CAN MAKE SURE THAT REGISTRATION IS COMPLETE. NUMBER ONE, STOP BEING IN AT YOUR LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS OR BY GOING ONLINE, THE LOCAL BOARD OF ELECTIONS. OF COURSE, CLOSING AND CLOSE OF BUSINESS ONLINE. YOU CAN REGISTER BEFORE 1159 TONIGHT. NOW THESE BOARD OF ELECTIONS IS GOING TO BE OPENING UP AT 8:00 THIS MORNING. GIVING VOTERS AN OPPORTUNITY AND MAKING SURE THAT THEIR VOTER REGISTRATIONS ARE COMPLETE, MAKING SURE THAT ADDRESS IS UP TO DATE AS WELL. COUPLE OF THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO BRING WITH YOU. IT’S INCLUDING A FORM OF IDENTIFICATION, LIKE A VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE OR A STATE ID WITH YOUR NAME, BIRTH DATE, AND ADDRESS. YOU ALSO WILL NEED TO INCLUDE YOUR LAST FOUR DIGITS OF YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER, MAKING SURE THAT YOUR ADDRESS IS UP TO DATE. PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT’S GOING TO DETERMINE WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO VOTE WITH YOUR PRIMARY LOCATION ON PRIMARY DAY ON MARCH THE 19TH. NOW, YOU CAN REGISTER IN PERSON UNTIL THE BOARD OF ELECTIONS CLOSES. YOUR LOCAL DISTRICT. OF COURSE, IN A LOCAL COUNTY AS WELL, YOU CAN REGISTER ONLINE UP UNTIL 1159 TONIGHT, MAKING SURE THAT REGISTRATION IS COMPLETE BEFORE TOMORROW MORNING. REPORTING LIVE THIS MORNING, RICHARD CHILES WLWT NEWS FIVE. RICHARD. THANK YOU. AND A REMINDER, AS LONG AS YOU’RE 18, BY NOVEMBER 5TH

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The College of Cincinnati Most cancers Middle has introduced they have got begun enrolling sufferers in a brand new medical path checking out a vaccine to regard pancreatic most cancers.UC Most cancers Middle says they’re the primary web site within the midwest to start out enrolling sufferers on this Segment 2 trial.The Nationwide Most cancers Institute says greater than 66,000 American citizens will probably be identified with pancreatic most cancers this yr. It ranks because the 3rd main reason for most cancers demise in ladies and fourth main reason for most cancers demise in males, in keeping with the NCI. Davendra Sohal, MD, affiliate director for medical analysis on the Most cancers Middle and professor of inner medication in UC’s Faculty of Medication and web site essential investigator, says the trial builds at the identical mRNA generation that used to be used to increase COVID-19 vaccines.”They took the COVID virus and sequenced it after which made a vaccine in opposition to its RNA series, and right here they do the similar factor,” mentioned Sohal in a press free up. “After surgical operation to take away the tumor, a work of it’s taken and despatched to the lab. They series the tumor, make a extremely customized vaccine to focus on every particular person’s most cancers particularly, and ship it again to us.”The vaccine is advanced in about 4 to 6 weeks whilst sufferers are recuperating from surgical operation, and sufferers are then given six weekly injections of the vaccine. Sufferers then obtain six extra vaccine injections, as boosters, after receiving six months of usual chemotherapy. “There is hardly ever any problem. Those sufferers all get surgical operation and all get chemotherapy anyway,” Sohal mentioned. “There is no placebo (we all know what they’re getting), and there is no shortchanging them on usual remedy.” Sohal provides any affected person identified with pancreatic most cancers that may be handled with surgical operation and has now not began every other remedies is eligible to sign up. The trial is aiming to sign up 260 sufferers throughout its websites globally, and Sohal mentioned he hopes to sign up as many sufferers as imaginable in Cincinnati. Unwanted effects of the vaccine reported within the Segment 1 trial had been minimum and very similar to the ones for COVID-19 vaccinations, together with delicate aches, chills and a gentle fever, in keeping with the clinic. Within the Segment 1 trial, Sohal mentioned 8 out of 32 sufferers had been totally cured in their most cancers. “That appears like a small quantity, however a 25% remedy in pancreas most cancers is far better than the present slightly 5% remedy,” he mentioned. “So this can also be recreation converting” Sohal mentioned mRNA vaccines are opening a thrilling new frontier for most cancers remedy, as researchers are checking out this technique in a lot of cancers along with pancreatic most cancers. “There are lots of alternatives, and this would no doubt be the way forward for treating most cancers,” he mentioned. For more info at the trial, please name 513-584-7698 or e-mail most cancers@uchealth.com.

CINCINNATI — The College of Cincinnati Most cancers Middle has introduced they have got begun enrolling sufferers in a brand new medical path checking out a vaccine to regard pancreatic most cancers.UC Most cancers Middle says they’re the primary web site within the midwest to start out enrolling sufferers on this Segment 2 trial.

The Nationwide Most cancers Institute says greater than 66,000 American citizens will probably be identified with pancreatic most cancers this yr. It ranks because the 3rd main reason for most cancers demise in ladies and fourth main reason for most cancers demise in males, in keeping with the NCI. Davendra Sohal, MD, affiliate director for medical analysis on the Most cancers Middle and professor of inner medication in UC’s Faculty of Medication and web site essential investigator, says the trial builds at the identical mRNA generation that used to be used to increase COVID-19 vaccines.”They took the COVID virus and sequenced it after which made a vaccine in opposition to its RNA series, and right here they do the similar factor,” mentioned Sohal in a press free up. “After surgical operation to take away the tumor, a work of it’s taken and despatched to the lab. They series the tumor, make a extremely customized vaccine to focus on every particular person’s most cancers particularly, and ship it again to us.”
The vaccine is advanced in about 4 to 6 weeks whilst sufferers are recuperating from surgical operation, and sufferers are then given six weekly injections of the vaccine.

Sufferers then obtain six extra vaccine injections, as boosters, after receiving six months of usual chemotherapy.
“There is hardly ever any problem. Those sufferers all get surgical operation and all get chemotherapy anyway,” Sohal mentioned. “There is no placebo (we all know what they’re getting), and there is no shortchanging them on usual remedy.” Sohal provides any affected person identified with pancreatic most cancers that may be handled with surgical operation and has now not began every other remedies is eligible to sign up. The trial is aiming to sign up 260 sufferers throughout its websites globally, and Sohal mentioned he hopes to sign up as many sufferers as imaginable in Cincinnati. Unwanted effects of the vaccine reported within the Segment 1 trial had been minimum and very similar to the ones for COVID-19 vaccinations, together with delicate aches, chills and a gentle fever, in keeping with the clinic. Within the Segment 1 trial, Sohal mentioned 8 out of 32 sufferers had been totally cured in their most cancers. “That appears like a small quantity, however a 25% remedy in pancreas most cancers is far better than the present slightly 5% remedy,” he mentioned. “So this can also be recreation converting” Sohal mentioned mRNA vaccines are opening a thrilling new frontier for most cancers remedy, as researchers are checking out this technique in a lot of cancers along with pancreatic most cancers. “There are lots of alternatives, and this would no doubt be the way forward for treating most cancers,” he mentioned. For more info at the trial, please name 513-584-7698 or e-mail most cancers@uchealth.com.