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Breast Cancer
Donation of $9M backs effort to develop blood test for early detection of breast cancer
October 27th, 2005
Fueled by a 3-year, $9 million award from the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) and its Women's Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), a new consortium of internationally recognized scientists at seven leading biomedical-research institutions is embarking upon an intensive quest to pinpoint breast-cancer biomarkers - unique proteins in the blood that may signal the presence of cancer at its earliest stages, when survival rates are highest. Known as the EIF/WCRF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project, the effort brings together researchers in the fields of proteomics, informatics and clinical breast-cancer care to share research methodologies, critical data, and tissue...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-10-27)
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