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Faces and Voices of Cancer—in Depth: Tory Campbell

August 28, 2018 NFCR Writer Kaitlin Horn Blog

In addition to sharing her breast cancer story, Campbell wants to take her positive experience and pay it forward any way that she can. In hopes of helping others in the cancer community, she shares some of the biggest takeaways from her experience....

Cloud Atlas

August 27, 2018 NFCR Writer David Perry Blog

It’s called “the cloud,” but it is not the fluffy white thingees drifting overhead. It promises to revolutionize cancer care. By, of all things, sharing data. “In cancer, only about 4% of patients go on a clinical trial, but that data is not ever really leveraged. The FDA (U.S. Food…...

Local Students Play Jazz for a Cure

August 26, 2018 NFCR Blog, News

Dodos Combo is a jazz band from the Landon School in Bethesda, MD. They helped launch NFCR’s Arts4TheCure program by performing at the 2018 Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research Award Ceremony held on May 5, 2018...

Early Days, But New Compound May Prevent Metastasis

August 22, 2018 NFCR Writer David Perry Blog

Oncologist Dr. Raymond Bergan and his team recently developed a drug compound that, in mouse models, seems to stave off metastasis—cancer spreading....

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Learn from the Pros: Hosting a Cancer Awareness Game

August 21, 2018 Julia Felts Blog, P4TC

So you wanna host a cancer awareness game? Learn from the pros how to take your game to the next level....

Safeway Foundation Grant Awarded to the National Foundation for Cancer Research

August 20, 2018 NFCR Press Release

NFCR is one of 13 local and regional organizations to be the recipient of a grant by Safeway Foundation supporting cancer research and treatment efforts. The $35,000 award will be directed toward the expansion of the Cancer Patient Navigation Hotline....

The Role of Micronutrients in Battling Cancer

August 17, 2018 NFCR Writer David Perry Blog, Cancer Research Science

It was largely the work of Helmut Sies, M.D., the esteemed pioneer of oxidative stress whom the National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) supported from 1983 to 2016, that brought the role of micronutrients, including flavonoids, into scientific focus....

Master Switch Metastasis Agent Identified

August 16, 2018 NFCR Writer David Perry 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…...

Frederick Alt: It’s Personal

August 15, 2018 NFCR Writer David Perry 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…...

Research Identifies Potential Guidance for Gastric Cancer Treatment

August 14, 2018 NFCR Press Release

Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TMUCIH) have discovered that gastric cancer tissue samples bearing mutation of a specific gene, MUC16, too are associated with higher tumor mutation loads....

Faces and Voices of Cancer—in Depth: Tory Campbell

Cloud Atlas

Local Students Play Jazz for a Cure

Early Days, But New Compound May Prevent Metastasis

Learn from the Pros: Hosting a Cancer Awareness Game

Safeway Foundation Grant Awarded to the National Foundation for Cancer Research

The Role of Micronutrients in Battling Cancer

Master Switch Metastasis Agent Identified

Frederick Alt: It’s Personal

Research Identifies Potential Guidance for Gastric Cancer Treatment

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