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July 28, 2017

Fox Chase Cancer Center Celebrates 50 Years Since the Discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus

Originally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2017 By Paige AllenScientists are seekers. Their inquiries may lead them to the far reaches of the world, or inward to incomprehensibly small molecular worlds. At a time before research on individual ...

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Fox Chase Cancer Center Celebrates 50 Years Since the Discovery of the Hepatitis B Virus

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July 5, 2017

Proteins and Pavarotti: How One Scientist Forged His Own Path

By Paige AllenOriginally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2017  was a toddler when Stanley P. Reimann died. But Reimann — founder of the Institute for Cancer Research, which evolved into Fox Chase Cancer Center — shared some striking simil...

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Proteins and Pavarotti: How One Scientist Forged His Own Path

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June 27, 2017

Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, on the American College of Physicians's Young Fellows Association Speed Mentoring Program

Dr. Jeffrey Farma, Co-Director of the Melanoma and Skin Cancer Program; Associate Professor in the Department of Surgical Oncology; and Director of the Surgical Oncology Fellowship Training Program  at Fox Chase Cancer Center, on th...

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Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, on the American College of Physicians's Young Fellows Association Speed Mentoring Program

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June 20, 2017

Jeffrey M. Farma Comments on a New Study of Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma

 In an article in the Philadelphia Inquirer,  Fox Chase surgeon Jeffrey M. Farma, MD, FACS, comments on a new study on melanoma surgery published in the June 8th edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.The study, "Completion Dissection or O...

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Jeffrey M. Farma Comments on a New Study of Sentinel-Node Metastasis in Melanoma

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June 14, 2017

An Intimate Look at Sex After Cancer

Originally published in Forward, Spring/Summer 2017   By Paige Allen Cancer can take people through a series of waiting rooms, infusion rooms, operating rooms, and hospital rooms. When it’s over, another problem can be lurking in a different room: t...

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An Intimate Look at Sex After Cancer

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June 13, 2017

High School Students Present Research at Symposium Hosted by Fox Chase’s Immersion Science Program

 If dietary components and drugs consumed by flies could affect the insects’ cell reproduction, could it do the same to human cancer patients? More than 180 high school students in the Immersion Science Program (ISP) at Fox Chase Cancer Center attempte...

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