Volume 4, Number 10 - March 23, 2009

In this issue:

• City of Hope licenses RNAi technology to global health-care company
• Center for Biomedicine & Genetics creates study’s experimental DNA therapy for cancer
• Support groups bring networking and strength to patients and families
• Surgeons good at predicting patients’ survival, less so about symptom relief
• See Los Angeles in a whole new light by bike
• New endocrinologist brings expertise in thyroid cancer, diabetes and other diseases

Intestinal fortitude
City of Hope staff, faculty, students and visitors get an up-close-and-personal view of the inside of a colon as part of an educational day focused on colon cancer prevention and early detection.

The Prevent Cancer Foundation Super Colon drew crowds to Cooper Auditorium for the March 12 event. Among the nearly 600 attendees were students from Duarte High School and Monrovia Adult School, who listened to talks from colorectal cancer experts Julio Garcia-Aguilar, M.D., Ph.D., and Stephen Shibata, M.D. Visitors also picked up health information from community organizations and City of Hope groups. More than 150 people capped off the day by attending an Ask-the-Experts lecture on colon cancer. (Photo by p.cunningham)