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...cell aging and thyroid dysfunction, too. In her recent book The Jungle Effect, San Francisco-based physician Daphne Miller - who studied low cancer rates in Okinawa extensively - writes: While Okinawans take in over 80 percent of...

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...in breast tissue and, if we could stop this happening, we expect it would slow the growth of any cancers that did develop and make them easier to eradicate," BBC News quoted lead researcher Dr Janine Erler from the Institute of Cancer...

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...efforts of past clients. Heather Olinto, director of development for City of Hope's San Francisco office, said Stompro also brings her personal experience to efforts to fund cancer research. "Not only has she donated to City of...

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...California. The Claudia Cohen Research Foundation was founded by Ms. Cohen's daughter, Samantha, and her sisters Caleigh and Debra Perelman, to foster research aimed at reducing the burden of gynecologic cancer. About the Claudia...

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...last days in hospice care at Most Holy Redeemer. When they died (of cancer in 1989 and 1991, respectively), the AIDS epidemic had caused widespread devastation in San Francisco particularly. As you can imagine, many of the other people in...

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...serving as acting CEO of Tokai. Tokai is getting into the prostate cancer field with a drug that it says is the only one of its kind to fight cancer cells simultaneously with three modes of action. The Tokai drug is building on some of...

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...Soriot was on his way to meet the company's CEO, Arthur D. Levinson, credited with building one of the world's most effective pipeline for cancer drugs. The Genentech products that Roche sold overseas, including Herceptin for breast cancer and...

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...drug Article:Medivation deal to develop prostate cancer drug:/c/a/2009/10/27/BUCU1ABC3B.DTL Medivation deal to develop prostate cancer drug San Francisco's Medivation Inc. will receive a cash payment of $110 million from Astellas Pharma...

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...and auctioned for charity. The proceeds provided around $6,000 to Imerman Angels, a Chicago-based nonprofit group that helps connect those battling cancer with people who have survived it and provide inspiration. Both Granderson and Ordonez...

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