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Have you seen the summer issue of Cancer Care magazine?

cancercaresummerWelcome to Cancer Care magazine's summer 2016 issue.

Medical student Ogochukwu Ezeoke, smiling from our cover, aspires to a career in cancer research, and like many scientists she's intrigued with the idea of using a patient's immune system to fight disease. In this issue, read about the research she's doing on racial and ethnic disparities in clinical trials, and the research William Kerr, PhD, is doing to make the immune system better at killing cancer. (Kerr is collaborating with scientists in France on a Fulbright Scholarship.)

Other Upstate scientists featured in Cancer Care include Andrzej Krol, PhD, a professor of radiology who is working to create a better noninvasive diagnostic tool for early liver cancer detection, and radiologist Ernest Scalzetti, MD, who contributes to the effort to quantify information from medical images that can guide medical care.

This issue also features stories from a variety of patients, including one of Upstate's oldest living pediatric brain tumor survivors, a man with follicular lymphoma, and an 11-year-old girl with Ewing sarcoma. Read about the special bell patients may ring when they finish treatment or reach a milestone.

Upstate experts also share information about the best way for breast cancer survivors to protect their bone health, whether kidney biopsies are always necessary and an important new risk factor for prostate cancer. They also address whether aspirin can protect against colorectal cancer, and they dispel dietary myths about sugar and soy.

If you have story suggestions for future issue of Cancer Care, contact editor Amber Smith at smithamb@upstate.edu Thanks for reading.
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