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Cancer patients, researchers put a face on cancer research in new ACS CAN report
Ken Stock thought he was out of options. The retired lawyer and father of three was fighting melanoma and doctors had told him no further treatments were available. It was around that time when advice from other stage IV melanoma patients led him to Dr. Geoffery WeissÈs clinical trials at the University of VirginiaÈs Human Immune Therapy Center. Fast ... of discoveries and successes that could be jeopardized if Congress cuts federal funding. The report details patients and researchers fighting melanoma, leukemia & lymphoma, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and cervical cancer in addition to scientific innovations that have ...
Texas Legislature Renews Commitment to Cancer Research, Following Arduous Year for Cancer Patients and Their Families
... more than 600,000 Americans each year. “When I was diagnosed I wanted to be at the best cancer center in the world with access to the latest melanoma treatment advancements – thankfully I’m a Texas resident already,” said Karlee Steele, Austin resident and melanoma cancer survivor. “Through successful surgeries at MD Anderson and accomplished objectives in an immunotherapy vaccine clinical trials, my body was able to fight against my melanoma. I’m forever grateful to my doctors and lawmakers for giving me the opportunity to continue to fish and hike with my son – and live to ...
President Carter's Diagnosis Highlights Importance of Increased Federal Funding for Cancer Research
This morning, Former President Jimmy Carter bravely sat in a room full of reporters and announced that he has melanoma , which has been found on his liver and now in his brain. He begins radiation treatment this afternoon, and his doctors will continue to conduct scans to determine where the melanoma originated. Our thoughts are with him and his family as he begins treatment and fights back against this disease. President Carter ... out , when Mr. Carter was president the research infrastructure was just being put in place to study how to utilize the immune system to treat melanoma. This led to the development of immunotherapy drugs over the past several years, one of which is the melanoma drug Former President Carter ...
Maryland Cancer Advocates Rally in Annapolis
... Senator Joanne Benson (D-24) and Delegate Karen Lewis Young (D-3A), the bill would reduce the risk of skin cancer for Maryland youth, including melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer. Using an indoor tanning device before the age of 35 increases the risk of melanoma by 59 percent. Additional issues that ACS CAN volunteers met with legislators about included state funding for the Breast and Cervical ...
Non-Medical Costs Associated with Clinical Trials Continue to be Barrier to Diverse Participation
... Radiation Oncology, Fight Colorectal Cancer, Friends of Cancer Research, International Myeloma Foundation, Triage Cancer, LUNGevity Foundation, Melanoma Research Foundation, Men’s Health Network, National Cancer Registrars Association, National Comprehensive Cancer Network, Oncology ...
Live: ACS CAN volunteer Pam Pilgrim blogs during her day on Capitol Hill
... a lot I didn't know. For example, in 1964 there were 800,000 cancer survivors; this year, there are 13 million cancer survivors. As a 30-year melanoma survivor who wasn't supposed to live beyond five years, it's amazing to be in the company of so many survivors -- most of whom would not ...
Senate Approves Major $2 Billion Increase for Medical Research Funding
... Access and Research (STAR) Act, as well as an additional $875,000 for activities aimed at reducing the incidence of skin cancer. Cases of melanoma, the mostly deadly form of skin cancer, have been on the rise for decades and skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer. ...
Precision Medicine Initiative Promotes Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
... of cancer genetics has helped to provide a roadmap for the development of targeted therapies for some types of cancers like lung, breast and melanoma. But, we have only begun to scratch the surface of the potential for new targeted therapies and robust investment is needed to build ...
From Bench to Bedside: Progress at Risk
... from cancer by highlighting federally-funded scientists who have discovered new ways to treat specific cancers, including breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer and the patients who benefited from those advances. We brought some of the individuals highlighted in the report to ...
ACS CAN Report Highlights Critical Need for Sustained Funding for Cancer Research
... funded scientists and collaborative work, the report documents progress in the fight against specific cancers, including breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer such as Gleevac¬, which can repress the symptoms of leukemia to such a degree that Manny Ortiz of Woburn, Mass. ran the ...