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11/23/2008
Hanoi: 7,800 run for cancer research (Vietnam Net)
VietNamNet Bridge - The threat of rain did not frighten the approximately 7,800 people who arrived at Thien Quang Lake, Hanoi on Sunday morning to participate in the annual Terry Fox Run for Cancer Research.
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11/23/2008
Cooper's 'health parties' educate on breast cancer (Courier-Post)
For more than a decade, Cooper University Hospital staff has been educating the public about the dangers of breast cancer and urging uninsured women to take advantage of their free screening program.
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11/23/2008
Arnold girl with disabilities celebrates birthday by helping women with breast cancer (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Gabby Nicholas (right) poses for a photograph for her mother Amy Nicholas (left) and father Greg Nicholas (center) at Magnolia's Hair and Nail salon in Imperial. Gabby cut her hair to donate to breast cancer patients.
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11/23/2008
Battling Cancer, Kennedy Braves Cold To Watch Harvard-Yale (WCVB Boston)
His battle with life-threatening brain cancer was not enough to keep Sen. Edward Kennedy away from the Harvard-Yale football game.
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11/23/2008
RP inventor’s cream fights skin cancer (Philippine Daily Inquirer)
MANILA -- DeWart, DeMole and now—de-cancer. By reformulating his amazing cream that gets rid of warts and moles without surgery, Rolando dela Cruz, 71, came up with DeBCC that combats skin cancer.
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11/23/2008
Dumaguing: Hope for patients with breast cancer (Sun Star)
RESEARCHERS have found a new family of therapeutic agents that interferes with the ability of estrogen to stimulate the growth of breast cancer cells.
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11/23/2008
Family living ‘day to day’ as daughter, 13, battles cancer (The Sentinel)
Thirteen-year-old Dominique Bigler started chemotherapy treatment last week for a rare form of cancer
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11/23/2008
For Lung Cancer Iressa Proves Just As Effective As Chemotherapy (Medical News Today)
Gefitinib, also known as Iressa, the once-promising targeted therapy for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer, has proven as effective as chemotherapy as a second-line therapy for the disease with far fewer side effects, according to an international Phase III clinical trial, led by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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11/23/2008
1st Nonphysician Elected National President Of American Cancer Society (Medical News Today)
Elizabeth T. H. (Terry) Fontham, MPH, DrPH, Dean of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, became the first non-physician elected national President of the American Cancer Society when she was inducted at a special ceremony during the Society's National Assembly Meeting on November 20, 2008 in New York City.
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11/23/2008
Scottish Scientists Fight Cancer Cells With a Lightsaber [Lightsabers] (Gizmodo)
And those pesky physicists said lightsabers weren't possible. Peshaw, I say, pe-shaw. I say this because Scottish scientists have created a miniature device that attacks individual cancer cells using...
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  • Advancing Medicine: Cancer Research - Provides information on breast cancer research at Baylor Health, gastrointestinal cancer research and gene therapy research.
  • American University of Beirut Medical Center - Maintain a tumor registry and administer and keep records of regular interdisciplinary tumor conferences . Offers guiddes and protocols, photographs and history of the center.
  • Arizona Telemedicine Breast Cancer Protocols - A list of breast cancer protocols currently underway at the Arizona Cancer Center.
  • Atlas Chromosome in Cancer - Concise and updated reviews on genes, cytogenetic and clinical entities in cancer, and on cancer-prone diseases; it is also a portal towards databases devoted to genomics and cancer.
  • Cancer Genetics and Developmental Biology - Research focuses on identifying genomic changes, and signaling and metabolic pathways associated with tumour progression. Includes information on research groups, staff, and related resources.
  • The Cancer Genome Anatomy Project - Excellent tool for searching and analyzing known, tissue-specific, tumor genes - from the National Cancer Institute.
  • Cancer Genome Anatomy Project - CGAP - Determine the gene expression profiles of normal, precancer, and cancer cells. Includes human and mouse genome data, information on methods and resources for reagents, and informatics tools.
  • Cancer.Gov - Informative site providing detailed information about genetics, causes, risk factors, and prevention of cancer. From the National Cancer Institute aimed at both patients and health professionals.
  • Cell-Wars - Blog on cancer research including cell signaling, apoptosis, chemotherapy mechanisms, vitamins and natural compounds.
  • Imperial Cancer Research Fund's Molecular Pathology Laboratory - Dedicated to researching the causes of and treatments for cancer. Includes description of the molecular genetics of pancreatic cancer, and related research into screening, diagnosis, treatment, and genetic vaccination.
  • The Jackson Laboratory - Perform basic research on the genetic factors underlying cancer. Includes research data, education, courses and conferences, and career opportunities.
  • M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Molecular Genetics - Department uses molecular genetic approaches to study cell and tissue differentiation, and the genetic basis of human disease, including cancer. provides information on the faculty, graduate education, and seminars.
  • Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center: Jan Schnitzer's Program - Illustrated description of the laboratory research on caveolae trafficking and signaling in endothelium for targeted drug and gene therapy.
  • Special Project Angiogenesis - Offers a look at angiostatic therapy, cancer, genes, publications, and lab news. Includes goals, tools, and participants at the First Interdisciplinary Scientific Project on Tumor Angiogenesis sponsored by Italian Association for Cancer Research.
  • Telomere Cancer Theory - A paper on a genetic model for the cause of cancer describing a counter mechanism for the cell's life span and how this counter can cause cancer.
  • The Tumor Gene Databases - Searchable databases containing information about genes which are targets for cancer-causing mutations, proto-oncogenes and tumor supressor genes.
  • VEGF Science - Educational resource for medical professionals with an interest in angiogenesis, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and their relationship to cancer.
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