Academic Cancer Centers Form Alliance To Leverage Individual Strengths Into Powerful Tool
The new partnership — believed to be the largest such consortium created by a public university system in the U.S. — will bring together scientists and researchers from Davis, Irvine, San Diego, San Francisco and UCLA.
The Mercury News:
UC Aligns Cancer Centers To Battle Deadly Diseases
For the 176,000 Californians diagnosed with cancer this year, Monday’s announcement that the University of California’s five academic cancer centers are forming an alliance to stem the disease’s rising toll here couldn’t come soon enough. Experts say cancer is on its way to overtake heart disease as the Golden State’s leading cause of death. (Seipel, 9/11)
The San Diego Union-Tribune:
UC Cancer Collaboration Seeks Combined Clout
Taken together, the UC centers care for more than 16 percent of Californians diagnosed with a disease projected to kill nearly 60,000 Californians this year, according to the American Cancer Society. While that number is daunting, there is more hope these days than there has been perhaps at any time since President Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. In recent years, breakthroughs in immunotherapies — drugs that activate or piggyback on components of the body’s immune system — have brought significant increases in survivability and seen to generate new headline-worthy advances every single week. (Sisson, 9/11)
California Healthline:
UC Cancer Centers Join Forces To Fight One Of California’s Top Killers
“Until now we haven’t thought of these centers as a collective,” said University of California President Janet Napolitano, who underwent treatment for cancer last year. “In the current economic and political climate, there is no time like the present to bring this expertise and stature together to drive advances in research for patients.” (Gorman, 9/12)
In other public health news —
Los Angeles Times:
Get Up At Least Once Every 30 Minutes. Failure To Do So May Shorten Your Life, Study Finds
ou can spend a lot of accumulated time on your bottom in the course of a day. Or you can sit for lengthy spells without a break. Both, it turns out, are very bad for you. Whether you’re a heavy sitter or a binge-sitter, racking up prolonged sedentary time increases your risk of early death, according to a study published in Tuesday’s edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine. (Healy, 9/11)