Cancer

Cancer grant goes to Hawaii, Guam universities HONOLULU The National Cancer Institute has awarded a combined grant to the University of Hawaii's Cancer Research Center of Hawaii and the University of Guam. The $12.6 million grant will be...

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...than 100lb of rice, sweets, pens and school books. He said Dunham, who died of cancer in Hawaii in 1995 at the age of 52, had given him four donations worth the equivalent of 1,000 dollars. The money enabled him to build his house, expand his...

In this article: Barack Obama, Ann Dunham, Java, Hawaii, The Sunday Times, Maya Soetoro-Ng, Honolulu, and Jakarta

...the University of Guam nearly $8 million, Vogel said in a news release. "This award will allow us to conduct regionally important research projects and to address cancer health disparities in Guam and other parts of Micronesia," Vogel said.

In this article: University of Guam, Hawaii, Pacific, and Guam

...the U.S. state with the highest risk. When compared to residents of Hawaii, the U.S. state with the lowest prostate cancer risk, Europeans are two to three times more likely to die from prostrate cancer. The tables are reversed when...

In this article: United States, Carnegie Mellon University, Europe, Lung cancer, Breast cancer, United Kingdom, Louisiana, and Germany

...each survivor," she said in an interview. Dreyer was here last month at the invitation of the Hawaii Children's Cancer Foundation to help establish a Hawaii long-term cancer survivor program. Dreyer estimates that by 2010 one in 250...

In this article: Web-based, Hawaii, Texas Children's Hospital, 'iolani School, Leukemia, and Children's Oncology Group