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December 2008

• New Hospitalist Joins Fox Chase (12-30-2008)
• Fox Chase's Ovarian Cancer Risk-Reducing Surgery Resource Translated into Japanese (12-15-2008)
• New Director of Minimally Invasive Liver and Pancreas Surgery Offers Unique Procedures (12-10-2008)
• Fox Chase to Open State-of-the-Art Radiation Therapy Facility in Buckingham Township (12-1-2008)

November 2008

• Fox Chase Cancer Center's Tree of Life Ceremony Brightens the Holiday Season (11-19-2008)
• Breaking BubR1 Mimics Genetic Shuffle Seen in Cancer Cells, Offers Opportunity to "Force Cancer's Hand" (11-17-2008)
• "Two-Headed" Antibody Poses A Double Threat to Breast Cancer Cells, Say Fox Chase Researchers (11-13-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Board Elects David G. Marshall Chairman (11-6-2008)
• PUBLIC NOTICE: Magnet Recognition Program^® Site Visit (11-5-2008)
• Fox Chase's Mark Morgan Selected As "Top Doc" by Women's Health Magazine (11-3-2008)

October 2008

• New Director of Thoracic Medical Oncology Offers Personalized Lung Cancer Protocols (10-30-2008)
• Michael Hall: Fox Chase's New Attending Physician Focuses on Gastrointestinal Cancers (10-30-2008)
• Medical Oncologist Holly Dushkin Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center (10-30-2008)
• Highly-Specialized, Minimally-Invasive Surgery for Lung Cancer Allows Patient To Go Home Sooner (10-28-2008)
• Open House for Experienced Nurses at Fox Chase Cancer Center (10-23-2008)
• Robert G. Uzzo, MD, Named Chairman of Surgery at Fox Chase Cancer Center (10-10-2008)
• Fox Chase And Genuardi's Team Up In The Fight Against Breast Cancer (10-10-2008)
• Gynecologic Oncologist Burger Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center's Department of Surgery (10-08-2008)
• Fox Chase Earns Blue Distinction Centers for Complex and Rare Cancers Designation (10-01-2008)

September 2008

• New Fox Chase Attending Physician Focuses on Leukemia and Lymphoma (09-30-2008)
• Heller Joins Fox Chase's Department of Medicine (09-30-2008)
• New Fox Chase Attending Physician Focuses on Genitourinary Cancers (09-30-2008)
• Breast Cancer Survivors Report Having a High Quality of Life Up to 15 Years After Breast-Conserving Surgery and Radiation (09-24-2008)
• Study Suggests Age Alone Should Not Be Used To Determine Whether or Not to Treat Prostate Cancer with Hormones (09-24-2008)
• Young Women with Early Form of Breast Cancer No More Likely to Experience Recurrence Than Older Women (09-24-2008)
• New Tool Helps Physicians Tailor Hormone Therapy for High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients (09-23-2008)
• Study Suggests Starting Hormone Therapy Sooner For Some With Prostate Cancer Whose PSA Rises After Radiation Therapy (09-23-2008)
• A New Look at a Standard Practice Suggests Some Breast Cancer Patients Facing Radiation after a Mastectomy May Be Over-Treated (09-23-2008)
• Fox Chase, Geisinger Launch Cancer Research Program to Directly Benefit Patients (09-17-2008)
• "One-Hit" Event Provides New Opportunity for Colon Cancer Prevention, Say Fox Chase Researchers (09-15-2008)
• Virtual Colonoscopy Followed by Optical Colonoscopy Offers Convenience and Therapeutic Benefit (09-12-2008)
• Study Challenges Routine Use of MRI Scans to Evaluate Breast Cancer (09-09-2008)
• Fox Chase's V. Craig Jordan Named Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (09-04-2008)
• Survey: "Tanorexia" Common Among University Students (09-02-2008)

August 2008

• Fox Chase Cancer Center Adds Astsaturov to Medical Oncology Staff (08-05-2008)
• Urologist Boorjian Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Surgical Oncology Staff (08-05-2008)
• Ebbinghaus Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Medical Oncology Staff (08-05-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Radiation Oncology Staff Adds Lally (08-05-2008)

July 2008

• Fox Chase Cancer Center Investigates the Use of Ultrasound to Alleviate Severe Pain Caused by Cancer's Spread to the Bones (07-29-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Appoints International Expert as Chief Scientific Officer (07-28-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Hosts Team Sarcoma Walk (07-02-2008)
• $10 Million in Gifts Will Support Innovative Keystone Programs for Collaborative Discovery at Fox Chase Cancer Center (07-01-2008)
• Death, Division or Cancer? Newly Discovered Checkpoint Process Holds the Line in Cell Division (07-01-2008)

June 2008

• Could New Discovery about a Shape-shifting Protein Lead to a Mighty "Morpheein" Bacteria Fighter? (06-20-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Enters Partnership To Advance First Clinical Trials Of Novel Fluorescence Molecular Imaging Technologies (06-16-2008)
• Eric Horwitz Named Acting Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center (06-05-2008)

May 2008

• The Avon Foundation Funds Breast Cancer Research at Fox Chase Cancer Center (05-28-2008)
• Burtness Named Chief of Head and Neck Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center (05-27-2008)
• Audit Suggests Partnership Between Academic Cancer Center and Community Hospitals Is A Highly Effective Model for Disseminating Treatment Advances
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• Protein Predicts Gleevec Resistance in Gastrointestinal Tumors and Points Researchers toward Alternate Therapies (05-15-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center's Ning Wong Receives ASCO Cancer Foundation Career Development Award (05-13-2008)
• Philadelphia Magazine Selects 27 Fox Chase Physicians for Its Annual List of "Top Doctors" (05-12-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center's Eric M. Horwitz Elected Vice President of the American Brachytherapy Society (05-05-2008)

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April 2008

• Fox Chase Researchers Discover a Method for Clamping Down on a Cancer-promoting Enzyme - (4-18-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center's Board Names Four New Vice Chairs;
  Streamlines Executive Committee to Take a Leadership Role in Coming Expansion (4-14-2008)
• Fox Chase's V. Craig Jordan to Receive ASCO’s Karnofsky Memorial Award for Advances in Breast Cancer Treatment and Prevention (4-14-2008)

March 2008

• Teenage Girls Aren't The Only Ones Who Tan Indoors - Older Adult Do So As Well (3-13-2008)
• Survey Names Fox Chase Cancer Center a Top Spot for Postdocs to Stop (3-04-2008)

February 2008

• Inverted DNA Turns Quiet Developmental Gene into a Potent Driver of T-Cell Lymphoma (2-27-2008)
• Keystone Programs for Collaborative Discovery Launch at Fox Chase: Self-Assembled Scientific Teams to Pursue Major Cancer Research Questions (2-27-2008)
• Thoracic Surgeon Lebenthal Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center Staff (2-21-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Adds Neuro-Oncologist Morrison to Medical Oncology Staff (2-21-2008)
• Stress May Increase a Woman's Risk of Developing Cervical Cancer (2-14-2008)
• Moving Beyond Tamoxifen: Drug Discovery and the Future of Selective Hormone Receptor Modulators (2-14-2008)
• Encouragement from Friends and Doctors Leads to More Participation In A Prostate Cancer Education and Screening Program (2-14-2008)
• Study Identifies Which Men Are Likely to Have Persistent Prostate Cancer (2-14-2008)
• Jill L. Sherman Named Chief Development Officer at Fox Chase Cancer Center (2-12-2008)

January 2008

• Larivee Promoted to Senior Vice President at Fox Chase Cancer Center (01-31-2008)
• Benefits Specialist Della Penna Joins Fox Chase Cancer Center Board of Directors (01-31-2008)
• Real Estate Finance Expert Glickman Elected to Fox Chase Cancer Center Board of Directors (01-31-2008)
• Robert F. Ozols To Step Down as Chief Clinical Officer (01-25-2008)
• Should Children Be Permitted to Get Genetic Testing for BRCA 1 / 2 Mutations? (01-15-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center and Ben-Gurion University Honor International Partnership (01-14-2008)
• Multiple Skin Cancer Risk Behaviors Are Common Among U.S. Adults (01-07-2008)
• Fox Chase Cancer Center Names Roger Cohen Acting Chairman of Medical Oncology Department (01-07-2008)

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