Thursday, May 20, 2004

Vol 10, Issue 10

Science Articles

• A comfortable colorectal test
  Clinical researcher William Grady aims to improve colorectal-cancer survival by developing a screening test people are more likely to undergo
  
  
• Cancer's moving target
  Roberts lab reveals how cancer protein p27 may alter cell migration, which could explain how aggressive cancers acquire invasive properties
  
  
• Pushing Pap across cultural lines
  PHS, Harborview team identifies barriers to cervical-cancer screening among Vietnamese-American women
  
  
• Vaccine volunteers hold hope for halting AIDS
  HIV-negative volunteers like Wendy Hilliker enable researchers to test vaccines against life-threatening virus
  
  
• CAM meets conventional
  Workshop integrates conventional treatment with complementary and alternative cancer therapies
  
  
• Statins don't raise breast cancer risk
  
  

General Articles

• The mission matters
  Solutions-oriented Lawrie Robertson receives special Farwell award for 18 years of contributions to Public Health Sciences Division's growth and success
  
  
• Fred Hutchinson receives 2004 Recycler of the Year Award
  The center's award-winning environmental efforts include recycling more than 78 percent of waste from PHS building construction
  
  

Briefs

• Myc oncogene seminar today in Pelton
  
  
• Ride a bike to work tomorrow, enter drawing outside PHS building
  
  
• Susan Spiller receives $70,000 fellowship from the American Brain Tumor Association
  
  
• Second Women and Science event raises $31,000 for fellowships
  
  
• Pilot funding available for prostate-cancer research
  
  
• Seattle Cancer Care Alliance seeks donated magazines for patient waiting areas
  
  
• Next human-research subjects class June 14 in Pelton Auditorium
  
  
• Don Listwin presents largest gift in center history
  
  
• Antonio Bedalov, Derek Stirewalt join Clinical Research Division faculty
  
  

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