Cancer Prevention Newsletter Cancer Prevention | Issue Thirteen en web@med.cornell.edu <a href="http://www.globalmoxie.com/">Big Medium Web Content Manager v1.3.4a</a> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/index.shtml Sat, 19 Dec 2008 19:22:00 GMT How do you change disease patterns in a society? Caries are being vanquished with fluoridation. Automobile accident deaths diminished with seat belts, car seats and speed limits. Lead poisoning is fading away since lead has been removed from gasoline and paint. [<a href="http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/iss/issues-insights-patterns.shtml">more</a>] Sat, 19 Dec 2008 19:22:00 GMT http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/iss/issues-insights-patterns.shtml http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/iss/issues-insights-patterns.shtml Over the last few years, we hear of progress in the War on Cancer, with declines in incidence and mortality overall, and significant progress against many of the top cancers. One cancer, however, that has been an enduring enigma to biomedical research has been pancreatic cancer. [<a href="http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/petersen.shtml">more</a>] Wed, 16 Dec 2008 16:17:00 GMT http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/petersen.shtml http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/petersen.shtml Periodically, we will publish articles by legislators who recognize the importance of preventing cancer as well as helping patients with the disease and who have sponsored and supported legislative efforts to improve cancer prevention and early detection. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) is such a leader. [<a href="http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/maloney.shtml">more</a>] Wed, 16 Dec 2008 16:17:00 GMT http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/maloney.shtml http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/maloney.shtml Edward Perry Richardson, a war veteran, a husband and a father died on August 1, 1984. In so many ways his life was blissfully simple. Yet through his fight with cancer he sparked something extraordinary. [<a href="http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/aldige.shtml">more</a>] Wed, 16 Dec 2008 16:16:00 GMT http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/aldige.shtml http://www.nypcancerprevention.com/issue/13/cancer_prevention/feature/aldige.shtml