Cancer society’s Relay for Life looking for volunteers
The American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Sarpy County is currently searching for volunteers interested in serving on the 2010 planning committee.
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Cancer society’s Relay for Life looking for volunteers
Pink rink makes fans think, raises money to fight cancer
Pink rink makes fans think, raises money to fight cancer
NORFOLK Just about everything at the Norfolk Admirals hockey game was turned pink Saturday night. Even the ice. The “Pink in the Rink” game was a fundraiser for the Tidewater affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which fights breast cancer.
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Pancreatic Tumors Are Marked for Immunotherapy
The marker is mesothelin, a protein normally found on mesothelial cells that line the body cavities. Several types of cancer cells make large amounts of mesothelin, which then circulates in the blood.
Mesothelin levels in the blood were shown in earlier studies to predict survival in patients with ovarian cancer and mesothelioma (a cancer of mesothelial cells). The researchers wanted to know if elevated blood levels of mesothelin could be used as a biological indicator for pancreatic disease. The study, published this month in Clinical Cancer Research, also examined whether the protein could be useful for immune-based cancer treatments.
“All pancreatic tumor specimens we tested displayed mesothelin on them, and the protein could be detected in the blood of 99 percent of our study patients with pancreatic cancer,” says co-senior author Peter Goedegebuure, Ph.D., research associate professor of surgery. “Other studies suggest that mesothelin plays an essential role in the development and growth of cancer, making it an ideal target for therapy.”
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