At Carolyn's, a long time ago
Note that I had hair then.
She looks particularly beautiful, don't you think?
A little more than two years ago I introduced you to “Dream
Teams”. These were to be teams of
diverse specialists all working together on a single project – that is, in this
case, cure of some kind of cancer. The
organization pushing this approach was a product of the entertainment
industry. Its name was to be Stand Up to
Cancer, or SU2C for short. At the time I
was hopeful, but slightly skeptical.
Then two years elapsed and I heard nothing about Dream Teams at all.
Well, now I have. A
consortium of funds and organization has announced a $6 million, three year
attack on ovarian cancer. Headed by
SU2C, this is a genuine Dream Team venture.
At the same time a Dream Team project against lung cancer was
announced. Apparently SU2C has forked
over $370 million for 16 projects since 2009; the fact that I haven’t heard
about them obviously reflects on me, not SU2C.
Also, apparently SU2C was in operation long before my first Dream Team
blog. http://ljb-quiltcutie.blogspot.com/2013/04/dream-teams.html
Anyway: the approach to be taken in this research project is
to investigate the activities (or lack of activity) of genes that affect DNA
repair – such as our old friends, the PARP inhibitors. They also will chase the Holy Grail of cancer
treatment – prevention – by means not explicitly stated. More power to them!
An interesting sidelight here is that the co-leader of this
effort is Dr. Elizabeth Swisher, of U.W.
I have sat next to Dr. Swisher at several conference tables. If I can summon the courage I will contact
her and ask if I can help. –
Here is the link.
Note how many organizations are fighting ovarian cancer – and these are
merely the largest. How come OVCA is
still around?
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