April 2007

Vol 13, Issue 4

Articles

• On target to halt esophageal cancer
  Aspirin, other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs significantly reduce esophageal-cancer risk in people with most aggressive form of Barrett's
  
  
• Telling stories of cancer statistics through art
  Native artists, storytellers develop culturally appropriate, non-threatening artistic representations of cancer-risk reduction and screening messages
  
  
• Reducing a weighty prostate-cancer prognosis
  Obesity at the time of prostate-cancer diagnosis dramatically increases the risk of dying from the disease
  
  
• Pancreatic-cancer survival: Clues from a genetic path less taken
  Sunil Hingorani leads study that uncovers genetic sequence responsible for rare form of pancreatic cancer
  
  
• Career Appreciation Honor Roll
  Human Resource's annual recognition for faculty and staff reaching 5, 10, 15, 20, 30 and 35 years of service as of June 30, 2006
  
  
• A win-win partnership for science
  Undergraduate students bring eager minds to Center labs and gain high-caliber research experience
  
  
• Working solutions for life's challenges
  Employee Assistance Program benefit provides confidential counseling, resources
  
  
• Life through their eyes
  Photographers give Hutch School students new ways to frame life
  
  
• Center's conduit for collaboration in Taiwan
  
  
  

Briefs

• Science and race documentary concludes April 6
  
  
• Center participates in statewide earthquake drill April 24
  
  
• Science Friday presents "An Inconvenient Truth" April 20
  
  
• Rensselaer president to deliver next Perspectives seminar April 12, Pelton
  
  
• Till wins UW pilot, feasibility grant
  
  
• Gates Foundation funds available for global-health pilot projects
  
  
• Martin elected to transplantation society board
  
  
• Bioethics colloquium May 16 in Pelton
  
  
• Dallas receives grant from National Marrow Donor Program
  
  
• Security seminar April 26: Protecting children online
  
  
• 2007 Travel and Leisure Auction features Cinco de Mayo theme
  
  
• Annual Premier Chefs Dinner May 20 at Grand Hyatt Seattle
  
  
• Nominate a nurse for annual Steinberg scholarship by April 20
  
  
• Subscribe to Center News Weekly listserv to enter raffle for iPod
  
  

Additional online-only content

• Fat, diabetes may fuel uterine cancer
  
  
• ALL patients risk growing up short
  
  
• Veiled from Vitamin D
  
  
• Removing roadblocks to tumor treatment
  
  

Credits