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Since the ACS recent venture into virtual worlds for Relay For Life, I have been curious about this. I found this interesting story today in Wired Blogs Gadgeteer, so check it out! The story goes, "In a bizarre case of art imitating life, players of the Blizzard Entertainment game World of Warcraft suddenly found themselves dying from a mysteriously rampant ...

Amazingly one of the first benefits of nanotechnology may be really, really sensitive detectors of cancer. Harvard University researchers have found that molecular markers indicating the presence of cancer in the body are readily detected in blood scanned by special arrays of silicon nanowires — even when these cancer markers constitute only one hundred-billionth of the protein present in a ...

I was visitng the ASPCA site today to learn more about the animals in trouble when I noticed that they had an XML button to let you keep track of their news stories and press releases. So why don’t we have one on cancer.org? I mean bloggers, new sites, and slashdot are one thing, but now were being upstaged by ...

Wow! Yesterday I talked with Letitia Thompson of Mid-South Division about Project COMMAND, an electronic health record system for which Letitia and Mid-South won the Futuring and Innovation Center’s first Innovation Award. Great project to configure free software for small physician practices (small practices, not small docs) that helps them track the cancer prevention, detection, and treatment  status of patients. ...