National Cancer Institute
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HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE, SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH HOLDS A HEARING ON NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE RESEARCH
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Four Mexican Laboratories Selected for Cytogenetics Standardization Pilot Project
MEXICO CITY, April 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A workshop being held today will serve as the launch of a unique project that unites the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the Agrupacion Mexicana para el Estudio de la Hematologia (AMEH), and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in pursuit of a common goal: improving the care of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The key to successfully treating AML, a type of blood cancer characterized by rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells, is to look for changes in the chromosomes of the leukemia cells - a process known as cytogenetic analysis. In 2009, leaders of AMEH approached ASH with concerns that the cytogenetic testing available to Mexican ...
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Governor O'Malley to Lead Dignitaries at Shady Grove Groundbreaking
ROCKVILLE, Md., Aug. 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A $200 million satellite campus for the National Cancer Institute will get its official start in Rockville September 1, with elected leaders saluting the initiative and the collaboration that forged it.
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