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The 9th Annual Mike Metcalfe 30 Hour Soccer Marathon for Cancer kicks off once a...

11/1/2012 12:10 PM EST  -   Calgary Health Trust
CALGARY – Mike Metcalfe, cancer survivor and community philanthropist and his friends will kick off 30 straight hours of soccer at the Calgary Soccer Centre. The event kicks off  Friday, November 2, at 4 pm and runs straight through until Saturday, November 3 at 10 pm.

The Soccer Marathon began in the fall of 2004 after Mike was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Mike’s friends rallied together after watching him...

The 9th Annual Mike Metcalfe 30 Hour Soccer Marathon for Cancer – Player Drive

10/26/2012 11:52 AM EST  -   Calgary Health Trust
CALGARY – The 9thAnnual Mike Metcalfe 30 Hour Soccer Marathon for Cancer is set to go on November 2 and 3 – but there is still room for more players. Anyone interested in registering for the tournament can sign up at www.soccermarathon.org (http://www.soccermarathon.org.). 

Over the past eight years the event has raised more than $450,000 that Calgary Health Trust has used to purchase cancer-related diagnostic and...
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Alarming Increase in Malignant Melanoma on the West Coast of Sweden

10/2/2012 2:00 AM EST  -   Sahlgrenska akademin vid Göteborgs universitet
Malignant melanoma is as much as 35% more common among people who live in Gothenburg and the region’s coastal municipalities than those who live inland. Researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, have found that the number of malignant melanoma cases in the Västra Götaland region has quadrupled since 1970.
Malignant melanoma has become increasingly common in the Western world over the past...
Melanoma on the rise among young women
 

With Melanoma Rising Among Young Adults, New Treatments Could Play a Key Role

5/16/2012 10:28 AM EST  -   Dian Griesel Inc
The incidence of melanoma increased eightfold among young women and fourfold among young men from 1970 through 2009.
As the U.S. observes Skin Cancer Awareness Month in May, a report published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings has some sobering news for young adults: The incidence of melanoma increased eightfold among young women and fourfold among young men from 1970 through 2009.

And, according...

Johns Hopkins Presents Two Live CME Programs on Melanoma and Lung Cancer Live On...

10/11/2011 9:46 AM EST  -   PlatformQ
Virtual Medical Education Presented by Johns Hopkins Streams Live at www.OncologyCareLive.com
Two live continuing medical education (CME) programs covering the treatment of melanoma and lung cancer will be presented by the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine live Wednesday October 12th at www.OncologyCareLive.com. These medical educational programs, which...

Ludesi’s 2D Gel Image Analysis Enabled Discovery of Potential Therapeutic Target...

10/14/2008 6:10 AM EST  -   InnovationsKapital
Ludesi’s Image and Data Analysis Helped Raise Confidence in Experimental Data where Conventional 2D Gel Software Did Not Provide Sufficient Confidence
Boston, MA – October 14, 2008 – Ludesi Corporation, developer of the award-winning Ludesi Image Analysis Service and the Ludesi REDFIN software for two-dimensional electrophoresis gels, today announced that researchers at the University of Pennsylvania in...