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CHARLESTON, S.C. – February 19, 2013— Dr. Katherine Sterba was awarded a five-year extramural research grant totaling $729,000 from the American Cancer Society at a reception on February 6, 2013, at the Medical University of South Carolina Department of Public Health Sciences, where she is an assistant professor. Dr. Sterba is a behavioral scientist affiliated [...]
Columbia, SC – (January 25, 2013) – Residents of the Greater Columbia and Orangeburg, South Carolina area have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in an historic study that has the potential to change the face of cancer for future generations. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed [...]
CHARLESTON, S.C., December 11, 2012 – Area residents have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that may change the face of cancer. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3). [...]
Pee Dee Region, S.C. – November 29, 2012 – The American Cancer Society has received funding from Walgreens to launch community-based programs in the Pee Dee region of South Carolina that will increase access to cancer information, education and life-saving mammogram screenings in areas where high burdens of breast cancer exist. In partnership with Little [...]
Charleston, S.C.—November 1, 2012– The American Cancer Society, the largest non-government, not-for-profit funding source of cancer research in the United States, has awarded three grants totaling $1,092,000 to researchers in South Carolina. The grants are among 96 national research and training grants totaling $43,808,000 to 70 institutions nationwide in the second of two grants cycles [...]
Charlotte, N.C. – October 22, 2012 – Fort Mill, S.C., resident Cayce Burwell was 25 and engaged to be married. While trying on her wedding dress, she noticed a mole on her back. Not thinking much of it, she made an appointment and had the mole removed and biopsied. Two weeks later the dermatologist’s office [...]
Charleston, SC, May 22, 2012 – Joe Wise, a United States Army veteran, has been through a lot since he was diagnosed with Stage 4 clear cell renal cell carcinoma (a serious type of kidney cancer) in October of 2008. In December of that same year, he underwent surgery to remove his kidney and some [...]
Source: American Cancer Society Copyright 2012 American Cancer Society, Inc. All rights reserved. To the nearly 12 million cancer survivors in the United States, each birthday is a special milestone. These days, more people are surviving cancer and living longer – and that’s something to celebrate, especially on National Cancer Survivors Day, held June 3 [...]
Florence, SC, May 3, 2012 – Area residents have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in a historic study that may change the face of cancer. Men and women between the ages of 30 and 65 who have never been diagnosed with cancer are needed to participate in the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3). [...]
Source: American Cancer Society Copyright 2012 American Cancer Society, Inc. All rights reserved. Remember the spontaneity and freedom of recess? The joy of taking a break to run around aimlessly, hang on monkey bars, or jump rope with friends? This May, the American Cancer Society is calling on women everywhere to relive that joy by [...]
SUMTER, S.C. – April 11, 2012— What if you could prevent a family from hearing the words, “You have cancer”? What if you could help save lives from cancer and give people more precious time with family and friends? Well, you can! Sumter residents have an unprecedented opportunity to participate in an historic study that [...]
Charleston, S.C. – February 9, 2012 – The community is invited to a free health forum designed to help raise cancer awareness and encourage action in Charleston’s African American community. The Health Forum is scheduled Saturday, February 18, 2012, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Arthur Christopher Community Center, 265 Fishburne Street, Charleston, S.C. Presented [...]