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November 1, 2017

Trainee Spotlight: Tatiana Pazina

  Tatiana Pazina Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Kerry Campbell lab [email protected]     Biography I was born in Cheboksary, a small city in Russia, and later moved to St. Petersburg where larger universities and more career oppor...

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October 27, 2017

Newest Techniques in Cancer Research: CRISPR is Revolutionizing Gene Editing

 Cancer researchers can’t stop talking about CRISPR.CRISPR, which stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats, is a gene editing technique that’s used to remove and insert genetic material from DNA. Scientists paired a navigati...

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Newest Techniques in Cancer Research: CRISPR is Revolutionizing Gene Editing

October 25, 2017

Don’t Put it Off: Get Screened for Breast Cancer

Updated: April 30, 2021Nearly every woman knows someone who’s had breast cancer—whether a loved one or a friend. More than 300,000 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with the disease this year, and more than 40,000 will die of it.Without a doubt, the ...

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Don’t Put it Off: Get Screened for Breast Cancer

October 18, 2017

Preparing Your Body for Chemotherapy

Updated: February 17, 2020Many people are apprehensive before their first chemotherapy appointment. Preconceived notions and misinformation can add to the stress. “I think it is important to emphasize that the effects of treatments vary enormously depending...

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Preparing Your Body for Chemotherapy

October 11, 2017

Trial Helps Determine Optimal Dose of Next-Generation Drug for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD, former director of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, recently published the results of a phase 2 study comparing the safety and efficacy of two differe...

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Trial Helps Determine Optimal Dose of Next-Generation Drug for Acute Myeloid Leukemia

October 10, 2017

Genetic Testing May Give Answers, but May Also Leave Questions

  Genetic testing and cancer care have a complicated relationship, as recently discussed in Gina Kolata's New York Times piece, "When Gene Tests for Breast Cancer Reveal Grim Data but No Guidance." Kolata discusses the potential for unclear results with ...

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