During the last decade, survival rates for breast cancer have increased as a result of earlier detection and increased use of adjuvant therapy. Limited data exist on the post mastectomy quality of life in the process of transition from health to cancer in its different phases of treatment. The aim of current study was to evaluate the changes of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after mastectomy and to measure their impression about future perspectives in Bangladeshi Breasts cancer patients. A group of 250 women with a diagnosis of primary breast cancer who was admitted in the department of surgical oncology in National Institute of Cancer Research and Hospital, Dhaka were enrolled in this study from January 2012 to March 2013. Two-point interview like pre(M1) and post mastectomy(M2) was taken using the structured questionnaire made by European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)-EORTC Q30 and BR23. The mean age of the patients was 44.7±9.87 years, 52.6% were locally advanced. HRQoL scores of breast cancer patients deteriorated after mastectomy, general features like presence of fatigability, nausea, apatite loss, sleeplessness and pain has got tremendous effect on the quality of life(p<.005). Financial difficulties and sleep disorders did not affect much. Four of the Global Health status/QOL parameters like physical functioning, role functioning, emotional functioning, cognitive functioning deteriorated but only physical functioning status affected significantly(p<0.005). Breast symptoms like body image problem, general breast symptoms like pain, arm swelling and sexual feeling affected their (HRQOL) after mastectomy. A diagnosis of cancer and associated treatments affects multiple domains of life. The complicated transitions between health, illness and living with cancer can often be challenged with a preoperative information for the patient confronted with breast cancer should include possible psychological effects of cancer diagnosis, surgery, and other treatment. Breast conservation particularly in the young group may give a better outcome in the treatment protocol of breast cancer patients.

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Effective two-way communication and data flow between rig and office is essential to optimise decision making in offshore operations. Traditionally, during drilling operations, engineering, geological and formation evaluation while drilling (FEWD) data was only available at the Operator's office via morning and afternoon reports, email, shared folders and telephone. Information technology has now evolved to a stage where office-based geologists and engineers can monitor and evaluate wellsite data in real time using the Internet and any standard web browser. This enables domain experts to provide more effective support to the wellsite staff especially when critical decisions are to be made in a timely manner. This paper describes how modern information technology such as InterACT (Formerly called InterACT Web Witness: or IWW) facilitates collaborative work in real-time on data being acquired from remote drilling wellsites. The availability of data real-time does create a paradigm shift in the way the asset team and contractors utilize data for early decisions. Challenges, benefits, and lessons learnt on the implementation and application of this technology are highlighted through examples where this technology was used namely: Echo/Yodel development drilling campaign (Woodside Energy Ltd.) for Geosteering Decisions and Melville-1 exploration well (Bass Strait Oil Company Ltd) for monitoring drilling, FEWD and wireline logging. Experiences from these two projects gained by Schlumberger can be utilized by other companies to put in place a data flow model incorporating real time data. Introduction Drilling for hydrocarbons and minerals often takes place in remote areas. While the operation takes place in the remote location, much of the planning, expertise and decision-making authority is located either in a town office or distributed amongst geographically spread out towns/cities and even operating companies. Data from the remote rig, whether it be land or offshore traditionally has been either faxed to town or communicated over phone. With the advent of higher speed point-to-point data connections, data was sent via e-mail, FTP'd or dropped into a shared folder. This form of communication was usually point-to-point and some cases, point-to-many.4 With the availability of higher speed links and the internet, technology has evolved such that data now can be made available to centrally located servers and distributed to all stakeholders wherever they may be, from remote locations in real-time, without the need of specialized software installation. InterACT© is one such system where data is delivered real time and provides a platform for Data Collaboration. What is InterACT?1 The InterACT wellsite monitoring and control system provides a Web-based data delivery, whichIs fast and secure,Is real timeAnd has interactive/ collaborative tools

Identifications of gas in tight clastic reservoirs of Oman considered of high value as this would improve significantly well and reservoir management of a number of tight gas fields by finding more re-perforation opportunities, identifying water shut off opportunities and in-fill opportunities, and by optimizing gas production system. As a result, a study was conducted to see if PNC logs could be used for gas identifications in tight clastic reservoirs of Oman.Application of PNC over the tight gas environments pose two major challenges:1. Consistent environmental corrections of PNC logs in the gas filled boreholes and 2. Identification of water free gas bearing zones from water bearing and gas-water transition zonesThese limited the use of the PNC tools in the tight gas reservoirs in Oman until PNC logs were recently used for well and reservoir management of a number of major tight gas reservoirs in PDO. This paper presents an integrated collaborative approach between operator and service provider that enables such use.Unlike in the high porosity clean shale free lithologies i.e. clean sandstone or carbonate rocks, gas identifications in the tighter clastic rocks pose additional challenge as sigma and neutron porosity are very sensitive to shale content and sensitivity to gas is not as profound as in the higher porosities to offset for the shale effects. It is important to note that identifications of gas in the low porosity tight clastic gas environments rely more on the count rates and neutron porosity than on sigma alone.Deterministic evaluation of saturation from sigma alone may lead to incorrect results in low porosity clastic rocks.Precise borehole corrections were needed to account for the borehole signal in gas filled borehole. This paper describes the workflow employed to evaluate tight gas reservoirs of Oman in detail with application to real field examples and shows the value it added by better well and reservoir management.

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