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Georgetown Lombardi Fields Top Fundraising Team at Avon Walk in Washington
Dozens of volunteers and patients representing Capital Breast Care Center (CBCC), part of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, took to the streets of Washington this weekend for the two-day, 39.3-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. The Georgetown Lombardi/Capital Breast Care Center team is the top fund raising team this year, bringing in more than $186,000.
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“Achilles Heel” of Pancreatic Cancer Identified
WASHINGTON — A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center reports that inhibiting a single protein completely shuts down growth of pancreatic cancer, a highly lethal disease with no effective therapy.
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Brain Anatomy Differences Between Deaf, Hearing Depend on First Language Learned
WASHINGTON – In the first known study of its kind, researchers have shown that the language we learn as children affects brain structure, as does hearing status. The findings are reported in The Journal of Neuroscience.
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Tips for Surviving Pollen Allergies
WASHINGTON – We’ve heard the warnings about this year’s allergy season, and now it’s here. You’re in the midst of a pollen allergy attack! Your eyes are red, watery and itchy; your nose is clogged; and you can’t stop scratching.
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Media Advisory: Music for the Mind
WASHINGTON – Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) hosts the fourth annual Music for the Mind event, which supports research for neurologic disorders, at Arena Stage on April 30.
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In Mice, Obese Dads Produce Heavier Daughters With Epigenetically Altered Breast Tissue
SAN DIEGO — Obese male mice and normal weight female mice produce female pups that are overweight at birth and in childhood, and have increased number of “terminal end buds” in their breast tissue — the site where cancer often develops in rodents.
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Antioxidants Can Protect Against Omega 6 Damage – or Promote It
SAN DIEGO — Given omega 6 fatty acid’s reputation for promoting cancer — at least in animal studies — researchers are examining the role that antioxidants play in blocking the harmful effects of this culprit, found in many cooking oils. After all, antioxidants are supposed to prevent DNA damage. But employing antioxidants could backfire, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.
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GUMC Professor Assumes Presidency of Society of Interventional Radiology
WASHINGTON—James B. Spies, MD, MPH, FSIR, professor of radiology at Georgetown University School of Medicine and chairman of the department of radiology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is the new president of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). He assumed the one-year term March 26 during SIR’s 38th Annual Scientific Meeting in San Diego.
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Media Advisory: Women & Wine IX
WASHINGTON – The 9th Annual Women & Wine event benefitting Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is scheduled for Tuesday, April 1, 2014.
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Primary Androgen Deprivation Therapy Ineffective for Most Men with Early Prostate Cancer
WASHINGTON — A study of more than 15,000 men with early stage prostate cancer finds that those who received androgen deprivation as their primary treatment instead of surgery or radiation did not live any longer than those who received no treatment.
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