As a physician-scientist, I have been part of the Side-Out trial since 2009. The major goal of the trial is the improvement of survival rates of metastatic breast cancer patients through the delivery of what is known as “precision medicine.” But what does the term really mean? I have spent hundreds of hours at the […]
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June 21, 2013 — There is nothing necessarily unique about presenting a cancer trial at a national oncology conference, but when that trial is funded by high school and college athletes, it becomes extraordinary. At the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in early June, scientists introduced the results for the Side-Out Protocol,
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Article written by: Michele McDonald at George Mason University Funded by volleyball teams nationwide, a new study released this week shows success in pinpointing individualized treatment for women with metastatic breast cancer, according to George Mason University researchers. The Side-Out Foundation’s pilot study is part of a cutting-edge approach to personalized medicine that looks beyond
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June 20, 2012 — The Center for Applied Proteomics (CAPMM) at George Mason University recently released a progress report on its work with the I-SPY 2 trial. The Side-Out Foundation is hopeful that its support of the trial will affect the future of breast cancer treatments. I-SPY 2 Protein Pathway Activation Mapping to Uncover New
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I am not a health care expert. I do, however, consider myself an expert patient, so I was excited when Rick asked me to attend President Obama’s talk about health care reform at George Mason University this morning. I admit that I do not follow politics very closely, and I do not claim to understand
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It was the men this time that brought Breast Cancer awareness to the many attendees at an exciting volleyball match between Penn State and George Mason at the field house at the George Mason Campus. GMU mens team dressed in pink for the occasion while the womens team who had a match earlier in the
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GMU, With Ties to Italy, Aims to Be a Biotech Force By Michael Laris Wednesday, February 27, 2008; B01 The tiny pieces of tumor, cut from 51 Italian cancer patients, arrived at a suburban Washington laboratory in boxes packed with dry ice. Doctors at the University of Padua had frozen 51 nubs of tissue taken
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