More than 80 percent of all cancer care is delivered in such settings, as opposed to academic centers, points out Steve Paulson, MD, president and chairman of the board of Texas Oncology in Dallas. Even high-dose chemotherapy and preparative regimens for bone marrow transplants – not to ment...
Removing Perceived Cultural Barriers to Breast Cancer Screening among high risk women living in Dallas CountyLinnear, Kim
“At VCA Pet CancerCare Centers, we are leading cancer care into a hopeful new era with longer lifespans and improved quality of life,” says Zack Wright, DVM, DACVIM/Oncology, director of oncology at VCA Animal Diagnostic Clinic in Dallas, Texas. “Our dedicated oncologists across the netwo...
The operation included 750 investigations across ‘meth hubs’ in Atlanta, Dallas, El Paso, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Phoenix, San Diego, and St. Louis, resulting in 1,840 arrests, the seizure of 28,560 pounds of methamphetamine, 284 firearms and $43.3 million in drug profits. So...
George met with doctors at Virginia Cancer Institute (VCI) and VCU Massey to discuss treatment options. Though he received treatment at VCI, he felt that both centers were collaborating on his care. “It was comforting to know I had the support of both VCI and VCU Massey. They weren’t ...
The most common site of metastasis in breast cancer is the bone, where the balance between osteoclast-mediated bone resorption and osteoblast-mediated bone formation is disrupted. This imbalance causes osteolytic bone metastasis in breast cancer, which l
nationalism due origins in North America. “Indeed, if anything is more American than apple pie, it has to be blueberries,” ex- claimed reporter Peter Tonge (1980). In this paper, I argue that clinician and researcher knowledge of the blueberry in the con- ...
The American Association of Cancer Education (AACE), the Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN), and the European Association for Cancer Education (EACE), in conjunction with our co-provider USF Health, will sponsor the premier meeting in North America dedicated to cancer education. The meeting...
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, breast cancer is the second leading cause of death among women in the US. Breast cancers are often classified based on their invasive potential. Ductal carcinoma in situ is a non-invasive type of breast cancer characterized by the unco...
Chitinase-like proteins (CLPs) play a key role in immunosuppression under inflammatory conditions such as cancer. CLPs are enzymatically inactive and become neutralized upon binding of their natural ligand chitin, potentially reducing CLP-driven immunosu