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A key initiative introduced by Dr. Harold Varmus after he took his current position of Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) here in the USA was the “provocative questions” project. His idea was that we should try to identify a small number of really focused questions about cancer and base research funding around seeking [...]
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It appears that research funding of $80 million will again be directed for use to study prostate cancer through the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (DoD CDMRP) for the financial year 2012. This is a big and important “win” for prostate cancer research during a time of fiscal constraint.
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The “New” Prostate Cancer InfoLink would like to congratulate Safeway, its staff, and its customers for their efforts to raise money for prostate cancer research over the past month.
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So the highlight of the meeting today has been a series of lectures given at the meeting of the Society for Urologic Oncology that were (to a large extent) focused on issues related to health outcomes and prostate cancer.
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The Cancer Prevention and Treatment Institute of Texas (CPRIT), which we first wrote about back in late 2008, has recently made a major new grant award for prostate cancer research. With an endowment of $3 billion, CPRIT is one of the largest cancer research funding organizations in the US today.
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Senator John McCain is a man who has been treated successfully not once, not twice, but three times for malignant melanoma.
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Every two years, the Prostate Cancer Research Program of the Department of Defense’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program holds the “Innovative Minds in Prostate Cancer Today” or IMPaCT meeting. The next such meeting will be held on March 9 to 12 this year in Orlando, Florida.
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So here in the USA, Major League Baseball has been a long-time supporter of a significant initiative to spread awareness of prostate cancer.
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A “virtual biobank” is an electronic database of information about biological specimens and other related information, regardless of where the actual specimens are (or were) orginally found, studied, and actually stored. Such biobanks are increasingly valuable resources for specialized researchers.
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Over the next few days, hundreds of prostate cancer patients, advocates, and researchers will be gathering in DC for a series of events focused on progress against prostate cancer. And there is a shared five-point plan of action to take to Congress and the White House.
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A research team at the National Institutes of Health and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health is seeking prostate cancer patients willing to complete an on-line survey as part of a study to determine how men with prostate cancer cope with their disease, how their quality of life (QoL) is affected, and [...]
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In early 1990, Dr. Gerry Chodak — a well-known Chicago-based urologist and then professor of urology at The University of Chicago — wrote a letter to his prostate cancer patients. He said that some of them were interested in starting a prostate cancer support group. From such small beginnings …
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DoD PCRP stands for the Congressionally mandated Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program — and it is the only US government-sponsored initiative that dedicates funding specifically to prostate cancer research. (Similar DoD cancer programs provide dedicated funding for research into breast, lung, colon, and ovarian cancers.)
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With the conclusion of the AUA annual meeting in San Francisco and the opening of the annual meeting of ASCO in Chicago, your correspondent has once again noted some core differences in the ways the oncology community and the urology community seem to approach their research agendas.
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Some cancer advocates have been asking for years for a clear and annual explanation of how the billions of dollars we have generated for cancer research actually gets used
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