UroToday.com - The Munich Cancer Registry (MCR) was established in 1978 as the clinical registry of the Munich Cancer Centre and in the beginning cooperated with the two University hospitals in Munich. Since 1988 collaborations have extended to all hospitals in the city and district of Munich, monitoring 2.3 million people. The enrolment area was extended by the Bavarian Cancer Registration Law up to a region with 3.8 million inhabitants in 2002 and 4.4 million inhabitants in 2007. Read more ...
Keeping germs from cooperating can delay the evolution of drug resistance more effectively than killing germs one by one with traditional drugs such as antibiotics, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson. John W. Pepper proposes a new strategy in the arms race between humans and germs -- targeting the teamwork within gangs of germs. Read more ...
Preventing tumor cells from refueling: a new anticancer approach? New data, generated in mice, by Pierre Sonveaux and colleagues, at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, have identified a potential new target for anticancer therapeutics. Not all cells in a tumor are equal, for example, some are in regions rich in oxygen, whereas others are in regions deprived of oxygen (hypoxic regions). Read more ...
Elizabeth T. H. (Terry) Fontham, MPH, DrPH, Dean of the LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, became the first non-physician elected national President of the American Cancer Society when she was inducted at a special ceremony during the Society's National Assembly Meeting on November 20, 2008 in New York City. She will also be the first epidemiologist and the third female to serve as president in the organization's 96-year history. Read more ...
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