CHILDHOOD CANCER RESEARCH NEWS
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Source: The Vancouver Sun, July 12, 2012 Fourteen-year-old Owen Barrett may be too young to care about banking, but he knows that his BioBank donation is one sound investment. Owen, a cancer patient, has voluntarily donated his blood and bone marrow for research as part of BC Children’s Hospital’s new Childhood Cancer and Blood Research (CCBR) BioBank, a part of the Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program (MCCCRP). [PDF format, 1.7 MB] 
Source: The Province, May 27, 2012 Building The Michael Cuccione Childhood Cancer Research Program at the Child & Family Research Institute at BC Children's Hospital. Our profile was published on The Province newspaper. [PDF format, 800 kb]
Source: Global BC, May 15, 2012 The legacy of Michael Cuccione will never be forgotten and his family participated in a special unveiling today. Linda Aylesworth reports. Watch it on Global News: Cuccione family recognized - News Hour - Video, Global BC
Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research, May 12, 2012 Research Profiles - Medicine gets personal: the promise of biomarkers - Medical science has delivered cures for diseases that used to seem unstoppable. From antibiotics to cancer therapies, the array of treatments that are now available to improve and prolong lives would astound the world's first healers. Yet much of the practice of medicine remains imprecise. In most cases, doctors are limited to providing treatments that assume everyone is the same. Cancer patients receive general therapies, without knowing whether a particular drug or regime will help or hurt them. Family histories can help predict possible outcomes, but they don't provide definitive answers...
Source: Vancouver Sun, January 12, 2011 The truly great of heart will always find more pity for another's troubles than for their own, which is why Tuesday -- 10 years after Michael Cuccione's youthful death -- $5 million was presented in his name to B.C. Children's Hospital. The truly great of heart will always find more pity for another's troubles than for their own, which is why Tuesday -- 10 years after Michael Cuccione's youthful death -- $5 million was presented in his name to B.C. Children's Hospital... |
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