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Master Switch Metastasis Agent Identified

August 16, 2018 NFCR Blog

In a major breakthrough, scientists led by Elena Deryugina at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) identified a specific protein, Latent TGFβ Binding Protein 3—LTBP3 for short—that kicks off a cellular chain reaction resulting in early-development tumors growing new blood vessels. These vessels then act like highways to spread cancer cells…...

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Frederick Alt Szent-Györgyi Prize

Frederick Alt: It’s Personal

August 15, 2018 NFCR Blog

Ask 100 physicians why they got into medicine and you’ll get 100 different answers: Some take the noble route and want to help people, others are just hardwired for it and still others learned early on that potential mates tend to worship doctors (or at least their mothers do!). And…...

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American Flight Attendants at Higher Cancer Risk

August 10, 2018 NFCR Blog

New research from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health found that American flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer....

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Web Cavenee: In the Genes

August 6, 2018 NFCR Blog

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Simple, Fresh and Tasty Summer Salad

August 2, 2018 Guest Blog, Cancer-Fighting Food

Summer, as wonderful as it is, can bring high heat, humidity and higher levels of physical activity, making unappealing even moderately heavy meals....

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Dr. Michael Hall on Why Funding is So Important for Cancer Research

August 1, 2018 NFCR Blog, News

Dr. Hall and many other scientist’s innovative research would not be possible without support and funding from private foundations such as the National Foundation for Cancer Research. See why Dr. Hall believes funding plays such an important role in cancer research....

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PGA Tournament 2018

Teeing It Up for a Cure

July 30, 2018 NFCR Blog

For the second year in a row, volunteers from the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) partook in the annual Quicken Loans National Golf Tournament, held in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC from June 25th to July 1st....

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German Lam Professional Chef

Faces & Voices of Cancer—in Depth: German Lam

July 26, 2018 Guest Blog

“Cancer is a gift, because it has allowed me to up my game and share my story and my methods. I’ve entered this world unexpectedly. I am accessing parts of myself I didn’t before.” - read German Lam's story...

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Frederick Keys Nymeo Field

Play4TheCure Summer Series Wrap-up

July 26, 2018 Julia Felts Foster Blog, P4TC

This Summer we set out on our third annual Play4TheCure Summer Series tour visiting minor league baseball teams. The goal is to engage more teams to participate in our Play4TheCure program and raise money for NFCR-supported scientists. We detailed our experiences at each of the 4 games in this series and…...

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Epigenetics Methylation and CancerImage

Epigenetics, Methylation and Cancer

July 24, 2018 Guest Blog

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species forever changed the way we think about how we and the world developed. It laid the foundation for the entire field of modern genetics and empowered generations of scientists and skeptical thinkers....

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