West Coast Cancer Center Breaks Ground on New Building to House CyberKnife System (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Accuray Incorporated , a global leader in the field of radiosurgery, announced today that the Comprehensive Blood and Cancer Center -- one of the nation's largest freestanding, physician owned and operated comprehensive cancer centers -- has purchased a CyberKnife® Robotic Radiosurgery System for its seven-acre campus in Bakersfield, Calif.
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Pardee Cancer Center offers outpatient oncology services 24/7 (The Hendersonville Times-News)
The Comprehensive Cancer Center at Pardee Hospital now offers outpatient oncology nursing services around the clock, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to ensure patient access to quality care.
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FDA Grants IND For Pro-Pharmaceuticals' DAVANAT® To Treat Breast Cancer Patient (PharmaceuticalOnline)
Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: PRW), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for use of DAVANAT® in combination with 5-FU to treat a breast cancer patient at the Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
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ORLive Presents: Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center Experts Webcast 10th Annual Patient Education Event on ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
On September 10, 2008, at 6 p.m. E.T., leading prostate cancer specialists from Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center will webcast their 10th Annual Symposium on Prostate Cancer, a patient education event featuring the newest advances in treatment, screening, and prevention of prostate cancer.
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Olympic gold medalist gives to Maine cancer center (Boston Globe)
The Harold Alfond Center for Cancer Care has received a $25,000 donation from a former Olympic gold medal figure skater.
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Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug (EurekAlert!)
( University of California - San Diego ) Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient. They have shown that when a variant version of a key protein that normally causes cell death is active, patients may be resistant to the ...
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FDA grants IND for Davanat to treat breast cancer patient (News-Medical-Net)
Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an Investigational New Drug (IND) application for use of Davanat in combination with 5-FU to treat a breast cancer patient at the Brown Cancer Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Davanat also is being administered in Phase II clinical trials for first-line treatment of colorectal and biliary cancer ...
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Chase for the Cure to aid Cancer Institute (East Brunswick Sentinel)
Registration is open for the sixth-annual High Speed Chase for the Cure 5K Run/3K Walk set for 9:30 a.m. Sept. 14 at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, Rutgers University, Livingston Campus, Piscataway. Check-in will begin at 8 a.m. Proceeds will benefit The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
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Variation of normal protein could be key to resistance to common cancer drug (PhysOrg)
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UC SD) in La Jolla have found evidence explaining why a common chemotherapy drug, cisplatin, may not always work for every cancer patient. They have shown that when a variant version of a key protein that normally causes cell death is active, patients may be resistant to the cancer-killing drug.
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Farmington Cancer Center Gets Accreditation Renewed (KOAT Albuquerque)
The San Juan Regional Cancer Center has had its accreditation from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer renewed.
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