Dr. Crystal Denlinger and myself, Dr. Jeffrey Farma, co-captained the Fox Chase Cancer Center Team for the Get Your Rear in Gear event on March 22, 2015. This was the first year we had participated as a FCCC team and it was truly a rewarding event. The C...
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Tumor profiling has become the mainstay of personalized oncology.It is already quite evident that key biological principles are shared between the tumors despite difference in their site and tissue of origin. Activated oncogene HER2 is a great example: once...
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Epigenetic Therapy Tests at Fox Chase
Dr. Patricia Kropf and Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa, a researcher at Fox Chase, are testing the next generation of epigenetic therapy, using genes to fight cancer. It’s being funded by Stand Up To Cancer. Stephanie Stahl and CBSPhilly filed a report on the benefits...
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My Experience Lobbying for Cancer Research on Capitol Hill
Every once in a while, it’s important to get on a train and go to Washington to make your voice heard. At Fox Chase Cancer Center’s kind invitation, I went with Communications Director Lisa Bailey and fellow breast cancer survivor Kim Hagerich to the Capito...
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A Prize-Winning Question
Katie Derickson Originally published in Forward Fall/Winter 2014 In studying protein death, Fox Chase researchers breathed new life into cancer drugs When Israeli biochemist Avram Hershko and his then-graduate student Aaron Ciechanover arri...
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From Pain to Progress: One Man's Journey to Fund Cancer Research
More than a decade after his wife’s death, Lowell Dubrow is still fighting cancer by funding research at Fox Chase. “One of the things about cancer is that there are a lot of people touched by it—almost everyone is—and those stories kind of get to you,” ...
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