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Scientists Crack the Code to Tamoxifen Resistance
Original Source Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered the molecular basis for tamoxifen response in breast cancer cells – and the reason why some women can develop resistance to the treatment, according to a study published in Nature*. Tamoxifen is given to most women for…
Author: Medical News Today
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Cornell makes cancer vaccine for clinical use
Original Source: http://www.pressoffice.cornell.edu/pressoffice/releases/release.cfm?r=29722 Cornell University, the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, and the Cancer Research Institute are Atlantic grantees. ITHACA, N.Y. – The Bioproduction Facility at Cornell University has produced the first batch of NY-ESO-1 recombinant protein-a cancer vaccine that will be used in clinical…
Author: Cornell University
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Event Marks Opening Of New UCL Cancer Institute, UK
A state-of-the-art new premises accommodating hundreds of cancer research scientists will officially open at UCL (University College London). The UCL Cancer Institute, housed in the £40 million Paul O’Gorman building, is situated at the heart of one of the largest and most prolific biomedical facilities…
Author: Medical News Today
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Research sheds new light on why pancreatic cancer drugs fail
Original Source An international team of scientists, led by researchers based at the Cambridge Research Institute, have discovered a new mechanism that may explain why pancreatic cancer patients are often resistant to a common chemotherapy treatment, germcitabine. The study, published in the journal Science today,…
Author: University of Cambridge
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American Cancer Society Awarded Grant to Work with Vietnam Businesses on Tobacco Control
Original Source The American Cancer Society has been awarded a two-year grant by Atlantic Philanthropies to fight the tobacco burden in Vietnam. The Society will team up with the Vietnam Committee on Smoking and Health (VINACOSH) to develop a national tobacco control media advocacy strategy…
Author: Global Fight Against Cancer
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Palliative care for all, not just cancer patients, hospice urges
by Grainne Cunningham NO-ONE should have to endure the “fear and the pain and the dread” that goes with terminal illness without the sort of palliative care received by writer Nuala O’Faolain in her dying days, her old friend Marian Finucane said last night. Ms…
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Purpose Prize Winners: Changing The World After 60
By Richard Eisenberg Maybe you recall these Crosby Stills and Nash lyrics, as I do: We can change the worldRearrange the worldIt’s dying — to get better Let me tell you about seven inspiring older Americans — six women and one man — who are,…
Author: Forbes
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Atlantic Congratulates Immunotherapy Researcher Dr. James P. Allison, 2018 Winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Photo: Cancer Research Institute The Atlantic Philanthropies and Founder Chuck Feeney congratulate James P. Allison, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Research Institute (CRI) Scientific Advisory Council, for winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Dr. Allison was chosen for this year’s Nobel Prize,…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Atlantic Mourns the Death of Patrick Johnston, Dynamic Leader of Queen's University Belfast
Professor Patrick (Paddy) Johnston was a dynamic leader of Queen’s University Belfast and a leading oncologist. He was deeply and personally committed to raising a new generation of thinkers, researchers and leaders. Atlantic Founder Chuck Feeney, and all of us at the foundation who knew…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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On Mission Bay’s 10th Anniversary, Hospital Construction Surges Forward
The new UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay, shown in this December 2012 photo, continues to take shape across the street from the research campus. Construction of the 289-bed state-of-the-art hospital complex for children, women and cancer patients is moving along swiftly, on schedule and…
Author: UCSF