Same school, same class, same battle to fight cancer according to : ABC15 Arizona

"One of my girlfriends called and said 'Kelli, there's another one,'" explained Kelli Dupps, whose son Jackson is also recovering from cancer. The 6 year olds go to the same school, are in the same class and the same boy scout troop. The Hyduchak's would soon learn of another family in their son's same school who had been through the same battle just one year before. A trip to the pediatrician and a blood test revealed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and he was rushed to Phoenix Children's Hospital for an emergency transfusion. "They've been through the same struggle, they just understand each other in a way others can't," Jace's dad, George Hyduchak, said.




WILKES-BARRE — A local woman is taking her fight against skin Cancer to Washington this weekend. Kennedy http://timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/web1_web1_Salina-3.jpg KennedyMelanoma patient willaddress lawmakersBy Melanie Mizenko [email protected]To keep up with Salina Kennedy as she advocates for Melanoma in Washington, D.C., follow the Northeast Pennsylvania Melanoma Exchange on Facebook. Kennedy, who founded the Northeast Pennsylvania Melanoma Exchange, will relate her personal story before discussing the disease and how she became so educated about it. Recently, Kennedy filed to make the Northeast Pennsylvania Melanoma Exchange a nonprofit. In 2009, the International Agency for Research on Cancer classified tanning beds as "carcinogenic to humans" — its highest cancer-risk category.

Smartphones conscripted in cancer fight

Now it is working with the Smash Childhood Cancer project to help find cures for six types of childhood cancer, including brain tumours, cancer of the liver and bone cancer. The spare computing power of android devices and computers can be utilised to work out which compounds can best fight cancer cells. The system is currently not available for iOS, due to developer rules that govern how apps run on the Apple platform. Initially it utilised the processing power of computers but a few years ago added an Android app to its arsenal. It is free for scientists to use but they must make the results publicly available for other researchers to access and use.



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