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Help restore funding to MI's breast cancer screening program
Friday, May 24, 2013
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This will take less than 15 minutes and could make an enormous impact! They meet Tuesday at 1:30. PLEASE CALL TODAY.
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Daughter remembers mom with participation in Half Ironman Marathon to benefit cancer fund at Karmanos.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
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Micheline Wentworth, a woman described by her eldest daughter, Chantal Wentworth-Mullin, as “beautiful” and “tough as nails,” may have lost her life to ovarian cancer, but her spirit lives on in Chantal.
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Thank You Metro Detroit! 30,000 took part in the 22nd Annual Komen Detroit Race for the Cure®, May 18. Fundraising Continues through July 1.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Tell Congress that Cancer Research Saves Lives!
Friday, May 17, 2013
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Help in the fight against cancer. It is imperative that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) be fully funded at $32 billion and a solution to the budget sequestration is found. Over the past few years, there have been tremendous breakthroughs in cancer research and prevention, thanks in large part to bipartisan support for these efforts.
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Henry Ford Community College Nursing Students Raise $1,200 for Karmanos' 'Friends Like Me' Program
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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Nursing students from Henry Ford Community College presented social worker Kathleen Hardy with a check for $1,200 on May 8 in support of the Karmanos Cancer Center’s “Friends Like Me” program.
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Karmanos educates financial, estate planners about ground-breaking research, technology at Institute
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
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The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute welcomed metro Detroit financial and estate planners Tuesday, May 7 to the Financial and Estate Planning Professionals Breakfast to discuss the tremendous contributions Karmanos has made in the fight against cancer and to encourage advisors to talk to their clients about helping the Institute continue that fight.
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Only a Few More Days to Register: 2013 Komen Detroit Race for the Cure is May 18
Wednesday, May 08, 2013
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The excitement is building as preparations are in full swing for one of the best days in the city of Detroit – the 22nd Annual Susan G. Komen Detroit Race for the Cure, locally presented by the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. This year’s event is Saturday, May 18, at Comerica Park. Vendor booths open at 7 a.m.; opening ceremony is at 8 a.m.; the Race starts at 9 a.m.; followed by the closing ceremony and awards presentations at 10:30 a.m.
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Karmanos’ nurse practitioner in Women’s Wellness Clinic receives Doctorate in Nursing Practice degree
Monday, May 06, 2013
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Catherine Nichols, DNP, APRN, BC, nurse practitioner in Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute’s Women’s Wellness Clinic, has recently received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from Madonna University.
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Karmanos Pathology, Lab Medicine professor appointed president of Michigan Society of Pathologists
Monday, May 06, 2013
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Rouba Ali-Fehmi, M.D., professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine, has been selected as president of the Michigan Society of Pathologists (MSP) for a two-year term.
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Karmanos doctors publish article about multiple myeloma therapeutic agent, suggest guideline revisions
Monday, May 06, 2013
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Researchers at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute have published an article on their study of the use of therapeutic agent lenalidomide on multiple myeloma patients and the decrease in adequate collection of peripheral blood stem cell collection for use in an autologous stem cell transplant.
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