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9 unusual facts about Oncology


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Bio-Nucleonics

The company develops, manufactures, and markets radiopharmaceuticals, medical devices, and imaging agents to detect and treat cardiovascular, oncological, and neurological diseases.

Brian Monahan

Dr. Monahan is an experienced hematology and medical oncology (HMO) doctor and researcher, was a staff physician for the Office of Attending Physician in the early 1990s and maintained a supporting role with the office during countless National Special Security Events, State of the Union Addresses and Joint Sessions of Congress, and essential continuity of government initiatives.

Clive Peedell

Clive Peedell is an English doctor specialising in clinical oncology.

Evzen Korec

Between 1983 and 1986 he had been working as a researcher at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he received the PhD in Oncology.

James S. Economou

He is currently the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of California, Los Angeles where he is also a surgical oncologist and tumor immunologist.

Nicholas J. Vogelzang

Vogelzang is the 2012 Chair for the American Society of Clinical Oncology's (ASCO) Cancer Communications Committee, the current Vice Chair of the GU Committee and a member of the GU Translational Medicine Intergroup Committee for Southwest Oncology Group.

Vogelzang served on committees for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), as well as its board of directors from 1993 to 1996, and is a former president of the Illinois Division of the American Cancer Society.

Oncology

Biopsy or Resection; these are methods by which suspicious neoplastic growths can be removed in part or in whole, and evaluated by a pathologist to determine malignancy


Asuragen

Offerings include RNA, MicroRNA and DNA based molecular diagnostic products providing identification of genetic abnormalities associated with oncology and genetic diseases.

Ben E. May

He supported the Weizmann Institute; funded the research of Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin; aided the investigations of Paul Dudley White, renowned cardiologist affiliated with Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts; and helped found a cancer research institute led by Charles B. Huggins, director of oncology research at the University of Chicago.

Benjamin Movsas

Educated at Harvard University and Washington University in St. Louis, Dr. Movsas previously held the position of Vice Chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the renowned Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Cadila Healthcare

Goa plants – The company's plants at Ponda in the southern Indian state of Goa do formulation work as well as manufacture oncology drugs and a herbal laxative branded Agiolax based on Psyllium seeds.

Colostrinin

A 2006 study published in the Journal of Experimental Therapeutics and Oncology indicated that Colostrinin may have an impact on the aging process by reducing the spontaneous or induced mutation frequency in the DNA of cells.

Dance marathon

The University of Iowa Dance Marathon was founded in 1994 and in 2013 raised $1,529,650.19 to support oncology patients being treated at the University of Iowa Children's Hospital.

Daniel Kraft

He completed the Harvard combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Boston Children's Hospital, before returning to Stanford for clinical fellowship training in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation and a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Irving Weissman.

David Zarling

Zarling was a S. L. Brown Scholar and holds a BA with Honors in Biology, a MA in Molecular Biology/ Biological Sciences from Dartmouth College, a Ph.D. in Virology/Oncology, with emphasis on pharmaceutical drug development, from Baylor College of Medicine and an Executive MBA in Marketing/Finance from Pepperdine University.

European Society for Medical Oncology

Founded in 1990, ESMO’s flagship scientific journal, Annals of Oncology, publishes articles addressing medical oncology, surgery, radiotherapy, pediatric oncology, basic research and the comprehensive management of patients with malignant diseases.

Global Oncology

The organization supports the efforts of other leading organizations working in global oncology and cancer care including the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.

Gordon McVie

McVie obtained his PhDs in science and medicine at Edinburgh University, and was appointed Foundation Senior Lecturer at the Cancer Research Campaign Oncology Unit (currently Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre) at the University of Glasgow.

Hanoi International American Hospital

The hospital will supposedly offer such services: General Medical Care, Surgery, Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Dentistry, Chiropractic, Psychiatry, Neurology, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Plastic Surgery, Nuclear Medicine, Nursing Services, Otorhinolaryngology, Acupuncture, Oncology, Cardiology, Pathology.

Health in Brazil

Over the years it diversified its scope of services and currently it offers treatment in 37 medical specialties, including: orthopedics, neurology, traumatology, urology, oncology, gastroenterology, image diagnostics, sports medicine, general surgery, and nutriology.

Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy

The Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy (INOR), located in Abbottabad, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, is affiliated with Ayub Medical College and the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission.

International Journal of Oncology

The International Journal of Oncology, (Int J Oncol) is an academic journal, published by Spandidos Publications of Athens, that addresses papers on cancer research.

IPO station

The station is at the northern end of the University of Porto campus and is named after the nearby Instituto Português de Oncologia (Portuguese Oncology Institute).

Johannes Vieweg

He also holds the Huizenga Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair in Urologic Oncology at UF and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Jonathan Simons

Simons completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and a clinical fellowship in medical oncology at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center.

M. Vera Peters

In recognition of her medical work, Peters was awarded two honorary doctorates (from York University in 1975 and Queen's University inn 1983) and a gold medal from the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology in 1979.

Marigliano

The scientific journal The Lancet Oncology published a 2004 study by the Italian researcher Alfredo Mazza, a physiologist at the Italian CNR (Centro Nazionale per la Ricerca); this study revealed the terrible situation in the countryside around Marigliano and the negative impact on its people's health.

Mater Dei Hospital

The new centre, costing €48 million, will replace the current oncology department at Sir Paul Boffa Hospital in Floriana.

Menorah Medical Center

The services that it feature includes Emergency, Intensive Care, oncology, medical-surgical, labor and delivery, rehabilitation, and extensive outpatient care.

Monica Morrow

She formerly served as the chairman of surgical oncology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Neil Piller

Neil "George" Piller is a professor in the area of lymphology at the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Flinders University and Director of the Lymphoedema Assessment Unit, Flinders Surgical Oncology as well as member of the Flinders University microcirculatory and lymphological research group.

Oncology benefit management

Thus, pediatric OBM are typically managed through the children hospitals like CHOC that specialize in pediatric oncology services, and not separate OBM companies.

Providence Portland Medical Center

Providence Portland Medical Center, located at 4805 NE Glisan St. in the North Tabor neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, is a full-service medical center specializing in cancer and cardiac care.

Radiation oncologist

In Nepal, only Bir Hospital runs residency program on Radiation Oncology, under NAMS.

Radiosurgery

It was invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology and Russell and Peter Schonberg at SCHONBERG RESEARCH, and is sold by the Accuray company, located in Sunnyvale, California.

Re-Mission

The Re-Mission games for young cancer patients were conceived by Pam Omidyar and designed based research by the nonprofit HopeLab Foundation, with direct input from young cancer patients and oncology doctors and nurses, and game developer Realtime Associates, among others.

Robert Peter Gale

From 1973-1993, Gale was on the faculty of the UCLA School of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology where he focused on the molecular biology, immunology and treatment of leukemia (with Martin Cline and David Golde).

Sremska Kamenica

In Upper Kamenica, a small forest houses the Sremska Kamenica Institute, which is the most important and well known institute for cardiology, oncology, and pneumonic diseases in Serbia.

Steven Arthur Kriegsman

Steven Kriegsman (born February 22, 1942 in the Bronx, NY) is the President and CEO of CytRx Corporation which is a biotechnology company specializing in the development of oncology drugs.

Swiss Cancer Centre

Prof. George Coukos (also director of the Department of Oncology of the CHUV and of the Ludwig Centre for Cancer Research of the University of Lausanne) will be the director of the centre and Prof. Douglas Hanahan (also director of the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research of the EPFL) will be the vice-director.

The Swiss Cancer Centre (French: Centre suisse du cancer) of Lausanne is an institute bringing together research groups in oncology from the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV), the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the support of the ISREC Foundation.

Tronado Machine

The treatment was improved and a new type of machine built by Dr John Holt who was formerly Head of Oncology at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Western Australia.

Vernalis plc

The company has a development pipeline focused on CNS disease and oncology, and collaborates with pharmaceutical companies including Novartis, Servier, ChemGenex and Serono.

Wayne A.I. Frederick

He has served as the principal investigator for major collaborations with the National Cancer Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and local and national minority-serving oncology programs.

Zeynel A. Karcioglu

He is a diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology, specializing in Ophthalmic Oncology and Pathology particularly in areas of retinoblastoma, external eye tumors, and primary and metastatic orbital neoplasms.


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