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Queen’s Researcher Using Cell Phones to Screen for Cervical Cancer

Karen Yeates, a Queen’s University researcher in Medicine, has created a cost-effective way to screen for cervical cancer using cell phone technology that is particularly useful in low-resource environments. “Using cell phones can help lower the barriers to large-scale screening and Pap smears in the developing world,” says Dr. Yeates, co-director of the Queen’s School… Keep Reading

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Prostate Cancer Treatment to Benefit from $4 Million Research Fund

Canadian Prostate Cancer Biomarker Network – a recently formed national research group – is seeking better tools for treating prostate cancer, and a $4 million fund announced today will help develop more accurate tools for determining that treatment. “The focus of this new Canadian Terry Fox Research Institute project is on identifying the best biomarker… Keep Reading

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Researchers Discover Possible Cause of Gene Destruction in Prostate Cancer

Researchers at Queen’s University have identified a possible cause for the loss of a tumour suppressor gene (known as PTEN) that can lead to the development of more aggressive forms of prostate cancer. “This discovery gives us a greater understanding of how aggressive prostate cancer develops because we now have some insight into the mechanism… Keep Reading

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Film Based on Queen’s University Professor’s Book to Show at TIFF

A Queen’s School of Kinesiology and Health Studies professor’s book has been turned into a National Film Board of Canada documentary that will make its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. Pink Ribbons Inc. is based on Samantha King’s book of the same name which takes a critical look at fundraising and… Keep Reading

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New Bladder Cancer Treatment Shows Promising Results

Clinical trials for a new bladder cancer therapy show promising interim results. Lead researcher Alvaro Morales says that the breakthrough using the drug Urocidin follows thirty years of his research in this important area. “I am optimistic about the results of the trial,” says Dr. Morales, professor emeritus in the Department of Urology at Queen’s… Keep Reading

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Cancer Researchers Recognized by American Association of Cancer Research

Queen’s University’s Jamaica Cass and Mulu Geletu will receive Minority Scholar Awards at the 2011 American Association of Cancer Research conference (AACR), the largest cancer conference in the world. Ms Cass, a PhD candidate, will present a poster at the conference on tissue microarrays—multiple tissue samples that are mounted together on the same microscope slide… Keep Reading

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