Thursday, June 20, 2002 • Vol 8, Issue 12

Research nurse Kathleen Shannon Dorcy (left) discusses a patient’s file with nurse Terese Ajer of Seattle Cancer Care Alliance infusion services. Photo by Gordon Todd

• A partnership to progress
  Researchers, cancer patients advance health care through clinical trials
  
  
• Preventive strikes
  Healthy volunteers play crucial role in cancer- prevention studies
  
  
• In-home checkups anytime
  Clinical study harnesses power of the Internet to ask 'more questions more often' in assessing quality of life for post-transplant patients
  
  
• Clinical trials: the basics
  
  
• Division Notes
  Radio campaign; worm research; prostate cancer & genitourinary meetings
  

• Jim Mead: ‘stickler for details’
  Facilities supervisor ‘goes for the gold’ to satisfy his clients
  
  
• The spirit of eagles
  HutchLab teams with American Indian and Alaskan native students for hands-on science education
  
  
• Hutch Desktop Initiative provides new work-station computers
  

Briefs

• Enlarged Alliance site debuts
  
  
• Fixes to benefits due today
  
  
• Next Center News is July 3
  
  
• Postage rates to rise on June 30
  
  
• Home-buying seminar series set
  
  
• Longtime facilities volunteer ‘Pete’ Peterson dies at 78
  
  
• State to recruit volunteers June 27 for study of ergonomic disorders
  
  
• Pathogen training set this summer
  
  
• AllStar Fitness offers discount
  
  
• Get fiscal 2002 transactions to Accounts Payable by noon June 26
  
  
• Hauge to join External Relations
  
  
• Harp, guitar shows due for Healing Music
  
  
• Administrative basketball tourney at Yale leads to finals in early July

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