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April 22, 2012
Combining a spirit of fun with a worthy philanthropic effort, Susan's Rally takes participants on an afternoon adventure in their automobiles and raises money for the fight against breast cancer!
“The new facility for the CHRISTUS Stehlin Foundation is an appropriate setting for an organization that has made an enormous contribution to the ongoing battle against cancer.”
Sister Lillian Anne Healy, CCVI,
Congregational Leader for Sister of Charity of the Incarnate Word
The cancer drug bexarotene quickly eliminates Alzheimer's disease-associated amyloid beta from the brain and reverses memory problems in mice, a new study finds. The results suggest that bexarotene could help the 5.4 million Americans with Alzheimer's disease.
An international research team has made a breakthrough that could change the way pediatric cancers are treated in the future. The researchers identified two genetic mutations responsible for up to 40 per cent of glioblastomas in children.