Archives - Feb. 24-29, 2008
Moffitt in the News
Catch the Rays in action and a free skin cancer screening
Tampa Bay’s 10 – Feb. 29
Moffitt Cancer Center will travel with the Tampa Bay Rays to provide free skin cancer screenings at select Spring Training games during the month of March.
CMC needs cancer study volunteers
News 14 Carolina – Feb. 29
The Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida is conducting the research. To expand the database, thousands of samples are needed and that's why CMC is asking cancer patients to volunteer to be a part of this study.
Half marathon will be first in Fort Myers history
The News-Press – Feb. 29
Working with the Fort Myers Track Club, Team in Training and the title sponsor, Pemberton and others started work last year on the 13.1-mile race that will benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and The Moffitt Cancer Center.
Chemo Testing
WFLA-TV, News Channel 8 – Feb. 28
A new type of testing allows doctors to determine which breast cancer patients will respond best to chemotherapy.
2 Students Honored With LaSertoma Youth Service Awards
The Ledger – Feb. 28
Harjani devoted 113 hours in four years to the Teen Trendsetter's Reading Mentors Club and volunteered 78 hours in one year to the Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute.
Moffitt picks up research partner in Charlotte
Tampa Bay Business Journal – Feb. 27
The Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute in a study that could lead to individualized treatments for specific types of cancer.
Blumenthal-Moffitt partnership for individualised cancer treatment
PharmaTimes – Feb. 27
The Blumenthal Cancer Center at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC) in Charlotte is teaming up with the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida for a study that involves collecting tissue samples from more than 2,300 cancer patients over the next five years.
Knights Show Heart At Children's Hospital
The Tampa Tribune – Feb. 27
In addition to their festive costumes, good will and plenty of beads, the krewe brought a stuffed white horse for each patient, a symbol of the horse of St. James Sant' Yago. After visiting the children's hospital, the krewe visited H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, James A. Haley VA Medical Center and Tampa General Hospital.
This Week on University Beat: "Arts In Medicine"
WUSF – Feb. 24
The "Arts in Medicine" program at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center on USF's Tampa campus brings art and music not only to the Center's clinics and lobbies, but right to a patient's bedside as a way of "nurturing the spirit, offering comfort and inspiring hope."