cancer research

Preparations Underway For The Race For The Cure

Dozens of volunteers are busy turning the area in front of Comerica Park into an oasis of pink and one artist has written a song to honor the ones battling cancer.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/05/17

credit: Peter Barta / Courtesy St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Time Magazine Notes Work Of Detroit-Native Doctor

He’s a candidate for Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” — and he’s from Detroit.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/04/04

A scanning electron microscope picture of a cancer cell. Uncredited photo from Wikimedia Commons

Wayne State Researcher Chronicles, Names Exhaustion Of Cancer Patients

The fatigue experienced by patients undergoing cancer treatments has long been recognized by health care providers, although its causes and ways to manage it are still largely unknown.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/03/07

MCRN Small Company Innovation Program Awards RealBio Technologies

The Michigan Corporate Relations Network announces the award of $38,040 in matching funds to Kalamazoo-based RealBio Technologies Inc.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2013/02/28

Doctor Touts Convenience, Effectiveness Of Two Day Breast Cancer Treatment

In the past, treating early stage partial breast cancer with radiation took 6 weeks, recently it’s been reduced to five days and now an area doctor believes the regimen can be given in just two days.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/11/02

SARC Receives National Cancer Institute Award For Sarcoma Research

The Sarcoma Alliance for Research through Collaboration, an Ann Arbor nonprofit consortium dedicated to providing infrastructure to support collaborative sarcoma research, announced today that it has received a Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). This grant will provide $11.5 million over five years in support of sarcoma translational research.

WWJ Newsradio 950–2012/10/11