2006 Grant Awards Supported
by the Women's Cancer Fund
RESEARCH GRANTS
$35,000.00
Regulation of Breast Cancer by Notch
Signaling Pathway Lucy Liaw, Ph.D. Maine Medical
Center Research Institute, Scarborough
$76,206.00
Preventive and Therapeutic Effects of Vitamin D3 and its
Membrane Receptor in Neoplastic Cells Anja Nohe, Ph.D.
University of Maine, Orono
EDUCATION OR
PATIENT SUPPORT GRANTS
$5,000.00
Cancer Community Center, South Portland
To support a variety of education and patient support
programs
$20,000.00
Support Service Fund, Maine Breast Cancer Coalition
To help meet the needs of uninsured and underinsured breast
cancer patients statewide
$1,862.00
Maine Center for Cancer Medicine Cancer Risk and Prevention
Clinic
To assess adherence to cancer risk and prevention strategies
for cancer patients at high risk due to a positive HBOC gene
test
IN ADDITION, THE WOMEN’S CANCER
FUND HELPED TO
- Present a live
lecture by California-based Dr. Susan Love, author of
the best selling “Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book”
- Provide “Portraits of
Courage, Voices of Hope” photo-essay books to breast
cancer patients throughout Maine
- Offer the Annual
Symposium for oncology providers on the care and
management of HBOC positive patients
- Underwrite Discovery
Weekend, a unique retreat for cancer patients held twice
in September and May.
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