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Sunday, July 10, 2011

New Cancer Mentality: Krystal Bocanegra on her Experince with Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Advice for Current Patients

New Cancer Mentality: Krystal Bocanegra on her journey fighting Peritoneal Mesothelioma and Advice for Current Patients from David Farzam on Vimeo.

Krystal’s story begins almost 3yrs ago, when she suddenly began experiencing severe stomach pains and exhaustion. At the time, she contributed these symptoms to her body reacting to working too much, but her symptoms consistently kept getting worse and worse each month. Finally, after becoming too fatigued to work, Krystal decided to go see her primary care physician. After, a CT scan was taken and surgery completed to look at what was going on, Krystal was diagnosed with the rare cancer peritoneal mesothelioma. She comes today to inform our audience of her treatment and help others who may be going through similar circumstances she did.

Friday, July 8, 2011

New Cancer Mentality: International Insight: Dr. Laura Soucek of Spain on her experimental findings studying Cancer

New Cancer Mentality: International Insight: Dr. Laura Soucek of Spain on her experimental findings studying Cancer from David Farzam on Vimeo.

Dr. Soucek obtained a PhD in Genetics and Molecular Biology at University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy. She then went on to do a Postdoctoral fellowship at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco. She then moved on to being an Assistant Researcher as a Molecular Biologist at the university of California San Francisco. As of now, she is in in Barcelona, Spain where she is the Head of the Mouse Models of Cancer Therapies Laboratory, at the institute of Oncology Vall d’Hebron. She has received numerous awards including the AACR award for outstanding early-career scientists in cancer research as well as the MIGUEL SERVET fellowship from FIS, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo. Just last week she also received an award from the Fero Foundation, which was given to her by Princess Letizia of Spain. She speaks about targeting the inhibition of the Myc protein to treat various types of Cancer.