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• Trends in the treatment and detection of skin cancer.

Increased social awareness of skin cancer prevention and early diagnosis, as well as the desire to prevent and reverse the signs of aging, have contri...

• Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 1, January 2011

• An Audience Interpretation of Corporate Communication in a Cause-Related Corporate Outreach Event: The Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk

Drawing upon a cultural studies perspective, this study investigates the audience role in shaping corporate involvement in social issues - identified as cause-related corporate outreach. We assert that, more than consumer, voter, or passive receptor of corporate messages, the audience is an active participant in the communication process. This case study of the Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day Walk, one of the most visible fitness-based fundraising events, examines the meaning individual participants construct during their involvement in the event. The study provides a context in which public relations practitioners and scholars alike can better understand the role corporate communication plays in defining and preserving community and social values. This understanding can help corporations buil...

• Journalism and Communication Monographs
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 2, July 2008

• Cancer

BLOOMINGTON - Angela Colba's battle against melanoma is filled with irony. For one, she was an active, healthy young woman who never used a tanning bed and seldom laid out in the sun but still was diagnosed at age 25 with skin . And as her husband Scott puts it, "We thought Well, if you have to get , this is the best one to get.'

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• June 09, 2011

• Guidance for Industry: Clinical Considerations for Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines; Availability

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the availability of a document entitled ``Guidance for Industry: Clinical Considerations for Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines'' dated October 2011. The guidance document provides sponsors who wish to submit an Investigational New Drug application (IND) for a therapeutic cancer vaccine with recommendations on critical clinical considerations for investigational studies of these products. The guidance also provides recommendations for the design of clinical trials for cancer vaccines conducted under an IND to support a subsequent biologics license application (BLA) for marketing approval. The guidance applies to therapeutic cancer vaccines that are intended for the treatment of patients with an existing diagnosis of cancer. The guidance does...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 68768, November 07, 2011
• Notices
• Health and Human Services Department

• Systemic retinoids for chemoprevention of non-melanoma skin cancer in high-risk patients.

ABSTRACT Patients at high risk for the development of multiple non-melanoma skin cancers, especially those receiving immunosuppressive medications f...

• Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
• Vol. 9 Nbr. 7, July 2010

• Colorectal Cancer Experts Hold Capitol Hill Briefing to Promote National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program

March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month Oak Brook, Ill., March 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Capitol Hill today, colorectal cancer experts and advocates will gather to promote the establishment of a national colorectal cancer screening program in an effort to save lives. In conjunction with National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), Fight Colorectal Cancer, Olympus, and the Prevent Cancer Foundation will hold a briefing on Capitol Hill with several high-profile speakers, including Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., MPH, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Tonya L. Adams, M.D., a gastroenterologist and co...

• U.S. Newswire
• March 30, 2011

• Cancer: this war is personal.

President Nixon declared a "War on Cancer" in 1971, the funding and will behind which paved the way for the establishment of an autonomous National Ca...

• Journal of Drugs in Dermatology
• Vol. 10 Nbr. 3, March 2011

• Blood Test for Cancer Steps Closer

BOSTON A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctors office. Boston scientists who invented the test and health-care giant Johnson & Johnson will announce today that they are joining forces to bring it to market. Four big cancer centers also will start studies using the experimental test this year. Stray cancer cells in the blood mean that a tumor has spread or is likely to, many doctors believe. A test that can capture such cells has the potential to transform care for many types of cancer, especially breast, prostate, colon and lung. Initially, doctors want to use the test to try to predict what treatments would be best for each patients tumor and find out quickly if th...

• Charleston Gazette
• January 04, 2011

• Conquering Cancer

BLOOMINGTON - Lori Groetken's journey battling pancreatic cancer has taken her to dark places in the past two years. But she keeps finding the light. I shouldn't even be here," the outgoing 52-year-old Bloomington woman said. "If you don't believe in miracles, research pancreatic cancer and then look at me.

• The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
• June 07, 2011

• Manitou Woman Treasures Every Minute Following Cancer Diagnosis

Every day is like an hour and every hour a minute for my friend Cherie Cree. She has stage 4 cancer.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• July 02, 2011