The Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation recently published the Hot Topics webcast from the 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. Click here to view the online webcast.
Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation distributes scholarships to patient advocates nationwide […]

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News from the ASCO GU Symposium, February 24, 2009
* The development of a personalized risk assessment tool that combines prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test results with additional prostate cancer risk factors to more accurately predict a man’s future risk of developing prostate cancer, compared with PSA test results alone
* A study finding that a novel molecular […]

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Studies highlighted in ASCO press release from the GI Symposium in January
* An economic analysis showing that routine testing for KRAS gene mutations in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer could save the U.S. health system up to $604 million per year in the cost of the drug cetuximab (Erbitux). Recent studies have shown that cetuximab […]

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By Kathleen Livingston, Research Advocate
The 10th Annual Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium was held October 24-26, 2008 in Chicago, IL.  The conference was sponsored by Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine.  I was sponsored to go to this symposium by the Research Advocacy Network.
This symposium was named after a young breast cancer patient who lost […]

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