Cancer Secrets
Cancer Secrets

Children's Cancer Research Fund Launches CompleteTheCure.com
In conjunction with Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, CompleteTheCure.come provides ways to help end childhood cancer and shares the stories of children with cancer. Visitors can watch 6 short videos and for doing so, a corporate sponsor will make a donation to cancer research for each video viewed.

Children's Cancer Research Fund Announces New Board of Directors Officers and Members
New board members were officially installed at the Children's Cancer Research Fund Board of Directors Meeting on June 2nd, 2009. Each will serve a three-year term.

Prostate Cancer Treatment For Those With Recurrent Prostate Cancer
Being diagnosed with prostate cancer for the first time will more than likely be traumatic for you and your loved ones, being diagnosed with recurrent prostate cancer can be devastating. Your doctor will prescribe a prostate cancer treatment plan that is designed to help you beat this disease. For those who have recurrent prostate cancer, there are many prostate cancer treatment that your physician may advise you to try.

Children's Cancer Research Fund® Needs Social Butterflies
Local nonprofit's sixth annual Social Butterfly event will support quality-of-life program for pediatric cancer patients and their families

Mathematical Modeling Predicts Response to Herceptin
Amount of PTEN protein predicts resistance. Revolutionary mathematical modeling increases accuracy.

Cancer Patients & Their Caregivers Strut the Catwalk in Hottest Spring Fashions: 'Runway for Hope' Fashion Show at Marley Station Mall Inspires
When you think about cancer, the words fabulous, glamorous and chic don't usually come to mind. But this Saturday, April 5, at the Marley Station Mall in Glen Burnie, cancer patients and caregivers from Cancer Treatment Centers of America(R) will look fabulous and feel glamorous as they strut down the runway in this spring's most chic fashions. This fashion show will change the way many people perceive cancer patients, inspiring strength, hope and healing to the thousands of others who are touched by the disease.

Dattoli Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment Brachytherapy "Seed" Implant Featured in Television Broadcast
Advanced Prostate Cancer Treatment called, brachytherapy (seed implant) was demonstrated by Dr. Michael Dattoli, founder and physician-in-chief of the Dattoli Cancer Center & Brachytherapy Research Institute in Sarasota, in a TV broadcast from WBBH-TV NBC-2 from Fort Myers, FL on August 13, 2009. (link: http://www.nbc-2.com/Global/story.asp?S=10926575)

New Hope Medical Center: Scottsdale, Arizona's Ultimate Choice For Alternative Cancer Treatments and Care
According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), complementary and alternative medicine is defined as "a group of diverse medical and health care systems, practices, and products that are not presently considered to be part of conventional medicine."

Nanoparticle-delivered 'Suicide' Genes Slowed Ovarian Tumor Growth
Potential late-stage ovarian cancer therapy; currently none available; Diphtheria-encoding genes delivered to tumor site by nanoparticles; Laboratory research; possible human trials about 18 months away

Cancer Research UK's New Video Puts a Fun Twist on Being Breast Aware
Introducing Tommy, the breast awareness guy.

New Hope Medical Center: Alternative Cancer Treatments
New Hope Medical Center is one a leading alternative cancer treatment center located in sunny Scottsdale, AZ For cancer patients who are seeking an alternative cancer treatment, here is a list of several methods used to fight cancer

Prostate Cancer DNA Vaccine Results in Higher T-Cell Response When Delivered via Inovio Biomedical's Electroporation Delivery System
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using electroporation-based DNA delivery, announced today that the team of Dr. Christian H. Ottensmeier, MD, PhD, Cancer Research UK Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the University of Southampton, will present interim data from a clinical study of an experimental DNA-based prostate cancer vaccine at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego, USA, April 12 - 16, 2008. The data indicates that the combination of this DNA vaccine and electroporation DNA delivery was safe and well-tolerated. Patients treated using electroporation also displayed higher levels of antibody and anti-DOM CD4 responses.

Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research Awarded to Ronald A. DePinho, M.D.
The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) announced that Ronald A. DePinho, M.D. has been awarded the 4th Annual Albert Szent-Györgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research. Dr. DePinho, Professor and Director, Belfer Institute, Department of Medicine and Genetics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, won the prize for his groundbreaking discoveries regarding fundamental molecular and biological mechanisms governing cancer and aging.