Interested in Running the 2015 Boston Marathon? Interested in Joining the CRS' 'Cancer Fighters' Marathon Team? 
 We CAN fight cancer through EDUCATION! Join CRS' 'Cancer Fighters' Team!
You are a goal-setter and thrive on personal challenges. Now you can turn your drive toward stamping out cancer! Join CRS' marathon team 'Cancer Fighters' and help raise funds for Cancer Research Simplified's international cancer education programs.

As a "Cancer Fighters" Marathon Team Member you will enjoy the following benefits:

• Special "Cancer Fighters" Marathon Team logo which can be used on your own jersey and promotional materials
• Limited edition "Cancer Fighters" Marathon Team t-shirt to be worn before, during or after the marathon highlighting your support of cancer education
• Opportunity to honor loved ones by wearing recognition ribbons in support of and in memory of friends and family
• Fundraising page that you personalize as appropriate
• Mentoring support for fundraising success 
• Social and fun environment 
• Emotional support by CRS members, directors, and volunteers 
• Certification by CRS

Show you care by taking some small steps, and then some big ones - join "Cancer Fighters" Marathon Team TODAY! For more info, please contact: marathon2014@CancerResearchSimplified.org.

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WOW, we're so excited, proud, and honored that we're the FINALIST of the HEBS pitch contest!  We've entered our first ever pitch contest, and we're proud for this amazing result!  Wonderful event, amazing experience, great interest and feedback from the audience, organizers, and judges, and many volunteer and collaboration interests - WOW, thank you! 

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Cellular culprit identified for invasive bladder cancer, according to Stanford study
April 21st, 2014 

Invasive bladder cancer is a grim disease that is expensive to treat and requires ongoing monitoring due to its high probability of recurrence. Stanford developmental biologist Philip Beachy, PhD, and urologist Michael Hsieh, MD, PhD, wanted to know how the cancer starts, and what makes it so intractable. Their research was published yesterday in Nature Cell Biology (subscription required).
We’ve learned that, at an intermediate stage during cancer progression, a single cancer stem cell and its progeny can quickly and completely replace the entire bladder lining. All of these cells have already taken several steps along the path to becoming an aggressive tumor. Thus, even when invasive carcinomas are successfully removed through surgery, this corrupted lining remains in place and has a high probability of progression.

In the photo above, the blue cells are progeny of just one cancer-initiating cell in the basal cell layer of the bladder lining. They’ve “elbowed out” their neighbors to take over the lining. The cells, and the cancers that arise, have a distinctive gene-expression profile. 
"Although the cancer stem cells, and the precancerous lesions they form in the bladder lining, universally express an important signaling protein called sonic hedgehog, the cells of subsequent invasive cancers invariably do not — a critical switch that appears vital for invasion and metastasis. This switch may explain certain confusing aspects of previous studies on the cellular origins of bladder cancer in humans. It also pinpoints a possible weak link in cancer progression that could be targeted by therapies."
"This could be a game changer in terms of therapeutic and diagnostic approaches. Until now, it’s not been clear whether bladder cancers arise as the result of cancerous mutations in many cells in the bladder lining as the result of ongoing exposure to toxins excreted in the urine, or if it’s due instead to a defect in one cell or cell type. If we can better understand how bladder cancers begin and progress, we may be able to target the cancer stem cell, or to find molecular markers to enable earlier diagnosis and disease monitoring."

Source: Stanford Scope http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2014/04/21/cellular-culprit-identified-for-invasive-bladder-cancer-according-to-stanford-study/
Cancer, Research, Science, Stanford News, Stem Cells

Happy #EarthDay ! Let's eat green, especially 'clean', and healthy today! What do you eat today? 

Background info: In 1970, one in ten Americans (20 million) rouse for the first Earth Day, pushing the federal government to take on environmental problems. 

#earthday #happyearthday #eatgreen #eatclean #eathealthy#whatdoyoueattoday #beatcancer #fightcancer #cancer#cancersimplified

Several volunteer positions are available immediately at our international cancer education organization, Cancer Research Simplified (CRS)! We're looking for:

- 2 German native speakers
- 1 Turkish native speaker

(experienced in translating from/to English texts (scientific background preferred but not mandatory) 

All applicants will be interviewed. Successful applicants must sign a volunteer contract. Minimum of 6 months commitment is required. These positions do *not* require to be located in Boston. Applicants from around the world are welcome!  

If you've the passion, drive, and willingness to take part in educating the world about cancer in a whole new way, then we'd like to hear form you! Email your resume with a short paragraph on why you'd like to join our team to [jobs@CancerResearchSimplified.org], mentioning that you've seen this job post on Facebook, no later than April 20th. 

Cancer scientists at any level are welcome to apply for joining our Research Team at any time. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us. More career opportunities and open positions are available on our website. For more info about us, watch the video below: 

INTRODUCTION TO CANCER RESEARCH SIMPLIFIED | Who we are | What we doWatch our introductory video to learn more about Cancer Research Simplified (CRS), a US-based, 'international' cancer education organization. Learn about who we are, what we do, and about our programs worldwide! 

A 10-year-old girl who died of brain cancer is leaving a legacy for other sick children in a new law signed by President Barack Obama.

Obama on Thursday signed the bipartisan Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act. It directs $126 million in federal money to be spent over the next decade to research pediatric cancer and other childhood disorders. Her parents and brother watched Obama sign the bill.

Gabriella pushed Congress to pass the law in an emotional video posted to YouTube before she died last October. The Leesburg, Va., girl told political leaders: "Stop talking and start doing."

The legislation calls for eliminating taxpayer funding for political conventions and redirecting it to pediatric research at the National Institutes of Health.

Congress must fund the research in future spending bills.

By Associated Press
Source: R&D Magazine

Happy World Health Day! HOW MANY people would LIKE to see the world to be a HEALTHIER and HAPPIER place? Show that you care, LIKE and SHARE! 

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#beatcancer #fightcancer #eathealthy#livehealthy 
#healthylifestyle #cancer #cancersimplified

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Photo and face painting: Cancer Research Simplified 
Photo credit: Muzo Gulenc
Face painting: Shivani Bhadani

One of the largest studies conducted to date pooled data from studies of about 2,400 men with breast cancer and 52,000 men without breast cancer and confirmed that risk factors for male breast cancer include obesity, a rare genetic condition called Klinefelter syndrome, and gynecomastia (excess breast tissue). Male breast cancer is rare, with only about 2,000 new cases expected to be diagnosed in 2014 in the United States. Since men are diagnosed with breast cancer at less than one percent the rate of women, studies on risk factors associated with this cancer in men have been limited in size and scope. Scientists at NCI addressed this issue by pooling risk factor data from over 21 studies on male breast cancer. The results of their work appeared Feb. 19, 2014, in the Journal of National Cancer Institute. 

The scientists, led by Louise Brinton, Ph.D., and Michael B. Cook, Ph.D., NCI, observed a small but statistically significantly elevated risk for breast cancer in men with a high body mass index (BMI). Men with the highest BMI had a 35 percent greater risk of breast cancer compared to men with the lowest BMI. The elevated risk observed with men who have a high BMI (who often have excess breast tissue and elevated estrogen levels) appears similar to the pattern for breast cancer risk in postmenopausal women. It was also determined that gynecomastia, independent from both Klinefelter syndrome and obesity, was associated with a 10-fold increased risk of breast cancer in men. As a next step, Brinton plans to follow up these findings with a deeper analysis of the effects of naturally occurring hormones on the risk of breast cancer in men by testing hormone levels in biological samples available from some of the studies involved with the project.

Source: National Cancer Institute

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