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Monthly Greetings

 

January 2008

 

 

Happy New Year and Greetings from Paula:

 
Next week in Orlando, the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2008 Gastrointestinal Cancer Meeting takes place.  This is an important scientific meeting and researchers from around the world attend and present their recent research and study results.   
 
At TRAC, we work on initiatives and projects in many types of cancer and disease.  Currently, we are gathering information on patient and family resources in breast cancer and will be compiling them in a resource for health professionals, patients, and caregivers.  If you have any special resources that have helped you, friends or colleagues when dealing with breast cancer, use the contact us page and share with us.  We may not be able to use everything you send, but we are committed to learning about all that is out there that patients use and rely upon.
 
We are continuing to collect patient and survivor viewpoints on the survey link below. 
 
Talk to you soon!
Paula
and the
TRAC Team

 

 


 

 

October-November 2007

 
The 2008 Federal Fiscal year began October 1st and once again, the year started without Congress finalizing all the appropriations bills.  We hope to see things finalized soon.
 
Following on the Croatian Oncology meeting that TRAC participated in and helped to plan in May of this year,  we continued our work in this area and I just returned from  Split, Croatia and the 1st  Conference on
 
 
This is noteworthy because this is the first time in the history of the country that a conference of this type has been convened.  
 
A quick heads up on an upcoming activity...
 
TRAC provides strategic management to the newly formed National Melanoma Alliance the Oct 30 National Melanoma Alliance teleconference will be online soon.

September 2007
Greetings from Paula:
 
Wanted to share an interesting calendar that posts the different "awareness months and days"
 
Awareness Months Calendar
 
 
A few of the September Awareness Months that I wanted to share are:   
 
Childhood Cancer
 
Leukemia and Lymphoma
 
Ovarian Cancer
 
Prostate Cancer
 
National Mesothelioma
 
 
  
August 2007 
August 2007
 
Greetings from Paula
 
The Hope Funds for Cancer Research is a newly formed organization. 
The funds from their inaugural dinner and dance  will support research in the harder-to-treat cancers.  Click here for more information about their fundraising and research funding activities
 
At TRAC we are working on a number of exciting initiatives, you can read more about them in our "What's Going On" page. 
ACTION ITEMS are highlighted in RED.
 
We will continue to build this site for sharing and hearing from you.
Hope everyone is enjoying the long summer days!!
 
 
Take care,
Paula and the TRAC Team