Mother’s Day Mission: Take down breast cancer
For years, Donna Deegan has wanted to stage a race on Mother’s Day. The Players Championship helped her make that happen with the second Players 5K with Donna, a beach run that begins at 8 a.m. today at the Ahern Street beach access in Atlantic Beach. Deegan, a three-time breast cancer survivor, has become the First Coast’s resident expert at staging races to raise funds for breast cancer …
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The drug, when paired with a chemotherapy regimen, was even more effective in fighting ovarian cancer in cell lines in which signaling of the Src family kinases, associated with the deadly disease, is activated.
The study appears in the Nov. 10, 2009 edition of the British Medical Journal.
Ovarian cancer, which will strike 21,600 women this year and kill 15,500, causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system. Few effective therapies for ovarian cancer exist, so it would be advantageous for patients if a new drug could be found that fights the cancer, said Gottfried Konecny, an assistant professor of hematology/oncology, a Jonsson Cancer Center researcher and first author of the study.
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