SAN ANTONIO, March 4, 2010—The Redes En Acción  research team unveiled a new video at its recent 10th Annual National Steering Committee Meeting highlighting the cancer control and prevention activities of the initiative conducted by the National Network Center and its five regional sites (San Francisco, San Diego, Houston, Miami and New York) over the […]

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Waiting for results of a breast biopsy appears to affect stress hormone levels just as much as finding out you have cancer, a new study shows. Harvard researchers tracked 126 women  who were undergoing breast biopsy, monitoring their levels of the stress hormone cortisol  while they waited.  For the full story go to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/25/health/25stress.html?ref=research#
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The latest edition of IUSCC Pink was just published and features an article about the Research Advocate Mentor Program held at the Indiana University campus.  The pdf of the newsletter can be viewed by clicking on Fall/Winter 2008/2009.

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Washington, D.C. – May 21, 2008 – The Coalition for Genetic Fairness (http://www.geneticfairness.org/) commends President George W. Bush for signing into law today the first civil rights legislation of the new millennium, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). GINA is the first and only federal legislation that will provide protections against discrimination based on an […]

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