Thursday, October 20, 2005 • Vol 11, Issue 20

The Hutchinson Center serves as the coordinating hub for a nationwide intiative aimed at avoiding an increase in obesity-related cancer deaths in the 21st century. Dr. Anne McTiernan, Public Health Sciences Division, is principal investigator for the TREC center. Photo by Guy Kramer

• Fighting fat to reduce cancer
  Center receives more than $18 million to lead, coordinate major initiative to study link between obesity and cancer
  
  
• Bacteria and your bones
  Johanna Lampe's lab finds intestinal bacteria influence bone mineral density, may relate to breast-cancer risk
  
  
• Tracing cancer's family ties
  Debra Friedman study finds increased risk of cancer among siblings of long-term childhood cancer survivors
  
  
• Charting chromosome choreography
  Henikoff lab's epigenetic profiling technique allows scientists to map active genes, unearth clues to development and disease
  
  
• Barriers to break for health's sake
  Economic realities, gender beliefs hinder access to colon-cancer screening among Hispanics in Lower Yakima Valley
  
  
• Stars in the quest for early detection
  Lee Hartwell leads research funded by entertainment industry to pinpoint biomarkers for breast cancer
  
  

• A clinic designed for woman's wellness
  SCCA's new Women's Center integrates programs for breast and gynecological cancer treatment, wellness
  
  
• A step to save time and trees
  Center transitions to electronic forms; paper requisitions end March 1
  
  
• Flu shots available to Center employees beginning Oct. 25
  Ongoing flu-shot clinics run every Tuesday and Friday through Nov. 22
  
  

• Contribute to Be a Hero workplace giving campaign
  
  
• Science Friday presents part two of 'Cracking the Code of Life'
  
  
• Hutch High seeks helpers Nov. 10
  
  
• Volunteer for Hutch Holiday Gala
  
  
• Hutchinson Center seeks women for NEW exercise and nutrition study
  
  
• Hutchinson Center, UW join NCI's ovarian-cancer clinical trial
  
  
• SWOG scientists share knowledge at biostatistics conference in Japan
  
  
• Lawrie Robertson heading to UW; Rosemarie Keenan steps in as interim PHS Division administrator Dec. 1
  
  
• Center, SCCA sponsor sensory workshop Nov. 29 in Pelton
  
  
• Mentor a student for Biotech Expo
  
  
• Harold Freeman speaks on health disparities Oct. 28
  
  
• Occupational Health Program offers free cholesterol screening
  
  
• Enter King County Wheel Options drawing; deadline is Oct. 28
  
  
• Tupperware sale Oct. 31-Nov. 1 benefits Pete Gross House
  
  
• Seeking crafters for Dec. 2 holiday fair
  
  
• Web-author training starts Nov. 9
  
  
• Human-research subjects class Oct. 24 in Pelton
  
  

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