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December 19, 2016

Devoted Girl Scout Goes for Gold by Comforting Breast Cancer Patients

During a TRIP Initiative to Fox Chase Cancer Center during the summer of 2015, Sanjna Shelukar, 17, noticed a cancer patient struggling with her seatbelt as she got into her car. She couldn’t be sure, but guessed that wearing a seatbelt was extremely uncomf...

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December 15, 2016

Tahseen Al-Saleem, MD, Earns Lifetime Achievement Award

The Iraqi Society of the UK honored Tahseen Al-Saleem, MD, a pathologist at Fox Chase Cancer Center, with a lifetime achievement award at its November 2016 meeting in London.Al-Saleem was selected for the award in recognition of his long medical career and ...

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December 15, 2016

Art Blooms at Fox Chase

 A new mural is brightening the halls and spirits at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The colorful painting of three large sunflowers stretches across a wall between the Hospital and Center buildings, and extends out into a peaceful corner of the courtyar...

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December 1, 2016

Trainee Spotlight: Yifan Wang, PhD

  Yifan Wang, PhDPostdoc AssociateDr. Neil Johnson's LabFox Chase Cancer [email protected]   BiographyWhen I was young I never dreamed of being a scientist until my father died of liver cancer when I was twelve years old.&nb...

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Trainee Spotlight: Yifan Wang, PhD

November 30, 2016

The Study That Launched 50,000 Papers (and Counting)

Fox Chase Scientists Celebrate 25 Years of AKT-Related Research By Bryan Bechtel October 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of a landmark study that originated in a laboratory at Fox Chase Cancer Center. The study, called “A Retroviral Oncogene, AKT, Enc...

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The Study That Launched 50,000 Papers (and Counting)

November 30, 2016

Facing Lung Cancer Together

 November was National Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and Fox Chase Cancer Center started off the month with Together Facing Lung Cancer, an event that united lung cancer survivors, caregivers, and health care professionals for an evening of education, d...

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