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 Volume 6, Issue 9 - September 14, 2007
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Yoga, acupuncture, vitamins, prayer - all the norm for cancer patients |
| About three-quarters of cancer patients use some form of complementary and alternative medicine. Through the Sheri & Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center, City of Hope researchers are studying health-care providers' awareness, attitudes and desire to learn more about these therapies. Their ultimate goal: to improve and integrate all aspects of care. |
| Pick a card, any card |
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| Tribute cards are back. Featuring beautiful, compelling images from the City of Hope campus in Duarte, Calif., these full-color "Cards for Hope" include a variety of uplifting messages. |
| While diabetes drugs can save lives, a recent major study showed that people on their way to developing type 2 diabetes actually can prevent the disease through diet and exercise. Among those with "pre-diabetes," the Diabetes Prevention Program study indicated that dietary and activity changes could delay the disease better than medications can. Just 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity, together with a 5- to-10 percent drop in body weight, produced a 58 percent reduction in diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association. |
| Ask the Experts: Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - The Changing Landscape |
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Speakers: Leslie Popplewell, M.D. and Carol Kim, L.C.S.W., M.S.W.
Co-sponsors: City of Hope and the Greater Los Angeles Leukemia/Lymphoma Society
Location: Platt Conference Center, City of Hope campus in Duarte, Calif.
Date and time: 6 to 7:30 p.m., Sept. 27
R.S.V.P. and info: 800-535-1390, ext. 65669
A light dinner will be served. |
| Walk for Hope to Cure Breast Cancer |
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Walk on. With October approaching, registration is open for six Walk for Hope event sites, including Seattle and Phoenix on Oct. 7, San Francisco on Oct. 13, the Philadelphia metro area and Chicago on Oct. 14, and finally Los Angeles on Oct. 28. Got plans that day? Be a Virtual Walker.
Locations: Various
Dates and times: Vary by site |
| Double-your-donation days |
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Office Depot, a global supplier of office products and services, will match your donation to City of Hope, dollar for dollar, up to $100,000 — compliments of the Office Depot Foundation.
How: Donate online at www.cityofhope.org/fightcancer
Dates: Through the end of September |
View all upcoming events >>
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Science will make the biggest impact on which of these diseases in the coming decade?
- Cancer
- HIV/AIDS
- Type 1 diabetes
- Neurodegeneration (Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s)
Take the poll >>
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City of Hope is a new model of cancer center where medical research and clinical care come together and where scientific discoveries turn into newer, more effective patient treatments. Our research innovations become advances in compassionate care as quickly as possible, because people battling cancer and other serious diseases need better options — now. Join us |
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Do you have a suggested Q&A topic or specific question for our physicians? Please send your question or idea to ehope@coh.org. And stay tuned — it might end up in a future issue. |
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 Read the most recent issue of City News, City of Hope's quarterly magazine, online. You can also email us to request the print version. |
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