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• Fox Chase Cancer Center's Jeff Boyd and Carol Cherry Join the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition in Speaking out about Ovarian Cancer this September (09-01-2010)
  Starting today and continuing throughout Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, celebrities, athletes, prominent doctors and survivors will be sharing their experiences and insights about ovarian cancer as part of the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition’s “September Speaks” campaign. Videos featuring Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Jeff Boyd, PhD, executive director of the Institute for Personalized Medicine, and Carol Cherry, MSN, RN, AOCNS, a nurse in the Risk Assessment Program; NY Yankees Manager Joe Girardi; actress Carol Channing; Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT); and others touched by the disease will run on NOCC’s website.
• Fox Chase Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Philadelphia Chromosome (08-23-2010)
  The event marks the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the first genetic abnormality associated with cancer, and the first to lead to a targeted therapy for cancer, bringing together members of the oncology community, including scientists associated with the original discovery, to celebrate its impact on science and medicine and to look at the state of personalized medicine today. September 28, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. at The Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.  
• Rectal Cancer Rates Are Rising in Young Individuals (08-23-2010)
  A new analysis has found that while colon cancer rates have remained steady over the past several decades among people under the age of 40, rectal cancer rates are increasing in this population across races and in both sexes.
• First-Ever BreastFest Philly to Benefit Fox Chase Cancer Center (08-19-2010)
  Saturday, September 11 from 1-6 p.m. at City Tap House (3925 Walnut St., Philadelphia, PA 19104).
  

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