Cancers

Young Women's Breast Cancers Have More Aggressive Genes, Worse Prognosis (Science Daily)

9 Jul 2008

Young women's breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than the cancers that arise in older women, and researchers may have discovered part of the reason why: young women's breast cancers share unique genomic traits that the cancers in older women do not exhibit.

Young women's breast cancers have more aggressive genes, worse prognosis (EurekAlert!)

9 Jul 2008

DURHAM, N.C. -- Young women's breast cancers tend to be more aggressive and less responsive to treatment than the cancers that arise in older women, and researchers at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy may have discovered part of the reason why: young women's breast cancers share unique genomic traits that the cancers in older women do not ...

Mets raise $838,000 to battle blood cancers (Queens Courier)

9 Jul 2008

Following an April benefit, The New York Mets organization was able to raise $838,000 for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, far exceeding expectations.