Stand Up to Cancer: Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare


 

Stand Up to Cancer: Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare – The Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare is one of the original Stand Up to Cancer Dream Team sites. It is the only center in the southwest participating as a clinical collaborator in the million SU2C pancreatic cancer Dream Team grant, conducting clinical trials of new cancer treatments designed to cut off the fuel supply of nutrients feeding pancreatic cancer cells. Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials is a partnership between Scottsdale Healthcare and TGen that treats cancer patients with promising new drugs, and has built a national reputation for its drug development programs and treating advanced and rare cancers. Led by Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, the studies have shown encouraging results in improving quality of life and extending life expectancy for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. Individuals seeking information about clinical trials at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare (www.shc.org may call 480-323-1339; toll free at 1-877-273-3713 or via email [email protected].

 

If Guns Don't Kill People, Why Does Florida Cheat Mental Health?

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Florida also wants you to know that after reconsidering its controversial Stand Your Ground law, the Wild West gun code at the center of the Trayvon Martin killing, it's decided not to reconsider it. Put that in your Glock and fire it. But what Florida …
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Welfare bills progress in the Virginia Senate

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Efforts to expand welfare eligibility, drug test some welfare recipients and limit where their benefits may be used are progressing in the Virginia Senate. The Senate Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services this morning approved the measures, …
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