Doctors Speak
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Published Thursday, September 15, 2011
A tumor can either lie dormant, or be nourished by a network of underlying vessels that expands as the tumor develops.
These vessels also provide a way for the cancerous cells to travel to other parts of the body, settle and grow – a process called metastasis.
Based on this reality, researchers from the University of Miami and the University of
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Published Wednesday, June 15, 2011
A few months ago, Dr. Mohammad Jahanzeb, medical director of Sylvester at Deerfield Beach and an expert in breast and lung cancers, spoke to chapter officers of The Pap Corps at their monthly Presidents’ Breakfast. In his opening remarks he explained that although the word cancer is used generically as a single disease, cancer is actually many diseases!
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Published Saturday, January 15, 2011
Your Pap Dollars at Work!
Revolutionary Cancer Research at Sylvester Using Nanotechnology…
Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. Nanotechnology is especially important to medicine because the medical field deals with things on the smallest of levels – molecules. Led by Richard J. Cote, M.D., scientists and
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Published Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Feed a Fever ….Starve a Tumor
Anyone who believes that science and scientists border on the dull, hasn’t met up with Dr. Ted Lampidis, professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy and a member of the Molecular Oncology Program at Sylvester. He is known for his informative and entertaining speaking style.
Dr. Lampidis was born and raised in Brooklyn, and could
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Published Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Vitamin D Is Good for Your Bones, and Perhaps Much More!
Kerry L. Burnstein, Ph.D., is Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Department of Molecular & Cellular Pharmacology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, and member of the Genitourinary Malignancies Program at Sylvester. At a recent Pap Corps Presidents’ Meeting she spoke
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