Saturday, October 18, 2008

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** BREAST CANCER News **

How Can Doing Your Will Online Help Cure Breast Cancer?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125919.php
Benefact has launched the "Will for a Cure" campaign for Breast Cancer Awareness month to raise money for breast cancer research. This is the first fundraising event of its kind. The campaign asks everyone who wants to help breast cancer research and who has not completed their will to go to <a href="http://www.

University Secures Record Funding For Health And Medical Research
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125826.php
The University of Newcastle has received a record $14.8 million from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).Funding for four research projects into asthma, breast cancer, stroke and mental illness accounts for almost half of the total amount awarded to the University.

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** CANCER / ONCOLOGY News **

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** CERVICAL CANCER / HPV VACCINE News **

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** COLORECTAL CANCER News **

Mechanical Pressure Accelerates The Early Stages Of Colon Cancer
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125935.php
Genes are not the be all and end all of carcinogenesis. At the Institut Curie, the team of Emmanuel Farge, Inserm Director of Research (UMR 168 CNRS/Institut Curie), has just shown, in collaboration with the Sylvie Robine and her group (UMR144 CNRS/Institut Curie), that mechanical pressure can alter gene expression, and in particular activate the oncogenes(1) Myc and Twist, which are implicated in the early stages of colon cancer.

Disparities In Colon Cancer Diagnosis: Trained Actors Will Help Determine If Doctors Respond Differently Based On Race And Gender
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125849.php
The National Cancer Institute has awarded two grants totaling more than $4.25 million to a Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher for two studies to examine delays and disparities in colon cancer diagnosis.

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** LUNG CANCER News **

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** LYMPHOMA / LEUKEMIA News **

Unique Collaborative Research Program Between Novartis And Leukaemia Physicians Across Europe Moves CML Management Forward
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/125940.php
Data on 2,500 patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) and results from state-of-the art monitoring are providing new insights into the management of the condition, according to one-year data from a unique collaborative research programme designed to optimise the treatment and monitoring of patients throughout Europe.

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** PROSTATE / PROSTATE CANCER News **

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