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Thank you for supporting us for 30 years! STOP CANCER’s legacy will live on with your future gifts to City of Hope https://ourhope.cityofhope.org/stopcancer, UCLA www.cancer.ucla.edu/stopcancer, and Keck Medicine of USC (USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center) http://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/stopcancer

Photo Credit: Rick Wilkinson and Kanchan Gunjotikar

Happy New Year from all of us at STOP CANCER!

#FeaturedResearcher! Dr. Cobos is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neuropathology, at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Dr. Cobos studies the basic mechanisms underlying the generation and maintenance of cell diversity in the central nervous system. She is using cell type-specific cellular, molecular and genetic techniques to understand how different populations of neurons and glia contribute to disease pathogenesis in the context of neurodegenerative disorders and brain cancer. The 2016 STOP CANCER Research Career Development Award has helped Dr. Cobos to conduct her research! Thank you, Dr. Cobos, for contributions to the fight to #STOPCANCER

Thank you for supporting us for 30 years! STOP CANCER’s legacy will live on with your future gifts to City of Hope https://ourhope.cityofhope.org/stopcancer, UCLA www.cancer.ucla.edu/stopcancer, and Keck Medicine of USC (USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center) http://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/stopcancer

Photo Credit: Rick Wilkinson and Kanchan Gunjotikar

Happy New Year from all of us at STOP CANCER!

Remember the last time you used your phone and it left a nice warm spot on your face? - Is that causing cancer? Michael Aranda tells you all about the radiation on your cell phone. #knowledgeispower #getinformed #STOPCANCER

After her second diagnosis with cancer, Lila Javan had to put her dream of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro on hold. But that didn't stop her from eventually reaching the peak, and this time she was able to bring along a special group of friends. Check it out! #shareyourstory #STOPCANCER

#FeaturedResearcher! Dr. Cobos is a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Neuropathology, at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Ronald Reagan Medical Center. Dr. Cobos studies the basic mechanisms underlying the generation and maintenance of cell diversity in the central nervous system. She is using cell type-specific cellular, molecular and genetic techniques to understand how different populations of neurons and glia contribute to disease pathogenesis in the context of neurodegenerative disorders and brain cancer. The 2016 STOP CANCER Research Career Development Award has helped Dr. Cobos to conduct her research! Thank you, Dr. Cobos, for contributions to the fight to #STOPCANCER

Lewis Mitchell Neff's portraits capture struggle and triumph through a glimpse into a young woman's cancer diary.

Why don't we hear about people getting heart cancer? Turns out that some types of cells are less susceptible to cancer than others. #STOPCANCER

Wishing you and yours a joyous holiday season!

#FeaturedResearcher! Meet Dr. Karim Chamie (2014 Research Career Development Award) and learn about the importance of broadening cancer surveillance. Dr. Chamie is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is a Member of the JCCC Patients and Survivors Program Area. He is a practicing urologist at Ronald Reagan UCLA and Santa Monica Medical Centers. Dr. Chamie is studying the barriers that patients with bladder cancer encounter and hopes to integrate innovative ways to obviate some of the barriers to quality care. Recently honored with a STOP CANCER Research Career Development Award, Dr. Chamie is dedicated to changing the way cancer is treated at UCLA and worldwide! Thank you for your dedication to stopping cancer! #STOPCANCER #getinformed #knowledgeispower

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." -William Ellery Channing #wisdomwednesday #STOPCANCER

Cadmium may raise the risk of uterine cancer. Read about findings by researchers at University of Missouri #getinformed #knowledgeispower #STOPCANCER

#FeaturedResearcher! Dr. Berman (2014 STOP CANCER Research Career Development Award) is an Assistant Professor in Bioinformatics and Preventive Medicine at the Keck Medicine of USC (USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center) and the USC Epigenome Center. Dr. Berman develops whole-genome sequencing techniques to understand chromatin structure in primary human tissues, and is currently applying these methods to a set of tumor and matched colon tissues from 25 colon cancer patients. Thank you so much, Dr. Berman, for your efforts in the fight to #STOPCANCER

Keck Medicine of USC is the first academic medical center to offer prostate cancer treatment using robotic and focal high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) a nonsurgical and noninvasive alternative to surgery.

#motivationmonday #STOPCANCER