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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Team Camo Gear Provides Pink "Camo for a Cause"

With Valentine's Day fast approaching, you can say "I adulation you" while acknowledging a aces cause.

Columbus, OH -- With Valentine's Day fast approaching, you can say "I adulation you" while acknowledging a aces cause. Team Camo Gear, a aggregation that specializes in bright appearance patterns, is seeing blush this Valentine's Day by accouterment blush "Camo for a Cause" products. Team Camo Gear is a baby woman-owned business that was accustomed in 2005 for the purpose of accouterment above black appearance to professional, academy and top academy sports fans, teams, and organizations.

As the aggregation began artefact selection, buyer Tammy Solt and her bedmate Greg capital to be able to action a artefact area they could accord aback to the community. “This was a “must have” allotment of the business model. When we stumbled above the blush appearance t-shirt, we knew this was the appropriate product. Not alone did it bout our band of black camouflage, it aswell gave us a way to abutment breast blight research. Being the parents of two daughters, we absitively to accept a could cause that could account their futures and their hopes that one day there will be a cure for breast cancer.

So abounding women are diagnosed with breast blight anniversary year – about anybody knows anyone whose has been afflicted by it. Here are a few accepted facts about breast cancer:

 

    It is the a lot of accepted blazon of blight a allotment of women in the United States and is the arch could cause of afterlife for women amid the ages of 35 and 55. One in eight women will advance breast blight during her lifetime. The cure amount for breast blight is 90 percent or greater if it is detected in its ancient stages.
    Team Camo Gear has developed the abstraction "Camo for a Cause" and is alms a blush appearance bodice just in time for Valentine's Day. For every bodice purchased, Team Camo Gear will accord $1.00 to breast blight research. To acquirement the shirt, go to http://www.teamcamogear.com.

    Camouflage has commonly been apparent as a way to burrow oneself. We anticipate the blush appearance bodice as a artefact that allows the wearer to stand-out. We ambition it to abet conversations about breast blight health. What a bigger way to get humans talking about important bloom issues than through a fun and different artefact that screams “Pink” the figure of breast blight awareness.

    Our appearance articles and website are all about continuing out and assuming aggregation spirit. We ambition our blush camo bodice to be about continuing out too. At Team Camo Gear, we are redefining camouflage. It's not about aggregate in; it's about continuing out! Whether it is a could cause such as breast blight acquaintance or assuming abutment for your admired aggregation - Team Camo Gear has your gear!

    Team Camo Gear aswell sells 5 added different appearance patterns including red camouflage, abject camouflage, orange camouflage, amethyst camouflage, and gray camouflage.

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Colin Mochrie, Henry Winkler, John O'Hurley added to Charity Auction

Seventy items donated by celebrities from ball and sports are currently accepting auctioned to advice accouchement angry blight through the Luke Neuhedel Foundation. The arrangement runs now through February 12th at www.lukefund.org.

-- Seventy items donated by celebrities from ball and sports are currently accepting auctioned to advice accouchement angry blight through the Luke Neuhedel Foundation. The arrangement runs now through February 12th at www.lukefund.org. More items are accepting added as they arrive. The a lot of contempo donations are from John O’Hurley, Colin Mochrie, and Henry Winkler. Mr. O’Hurley donated an autographed photo from his accepted run on Broadway in “Chicago.” Mr. Mochrie, who has donated to LNF for accomplished auctions, donated a active LukeFest bodice (LukeFest is the summer anniversary fundraiser captivated by the Luke Neuhedel Foundation). Mr. Winkler donated several items, including a active archetype of one of his Hank Zipzer novels.

The Luke Neuhedel Foundation is a 501c3 alms committed to convalescent the above of activity for accouchement with cancer. LNF was accustomed in anamnesis of Luke Neuhedel, who died of hepatoblastoma, at age 3 in 2002, by Luke’s parents, Paul and Rebecca, his siblings, and friends. LNF provides aid, donations, and toys to bags of kids angry blight in the United States. LNF is able to admission 100% of all funds anon to accouchement with blight because LNF is staffed absolutely by volunteers. Many of the volunteers are adolescent people, who accord their time to advice their aeon action their baleful disease.

LNF works to accession acquaintance of children’s cancer, to draw absorption to an often-neglected disease. Cancer is the #1 ache analgesic of accouchement --- blight kills added accouchement than AIDS, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and complete anomalies COMBINED (while these added diseases are just as life-threatening and adverse as cancer, added accouchement are diagnosed with blight and die from blight annually). The accident of children’s blight is accretion at a amount of 1% every year. In fact, the amount of blight in adolescent adults and adolescence is accretion at a greater amount than any added cancer, including breast, prostrate, and lung. LNF works with amusing workers at US pediatric oncology centers to accommodate parents with banking abetment for annihilation treatment-related. This may cover medical bills, food, auberge stays, rent, affinity adolescent care, transportation, buzz and account bills, altogether wishes, and burial expenses, to name a few.

The Luke Neuhedel Foundation acknowledgment all the celebrities who provided donations to accomplish this arrangement possible. Currently there are 30 autographed photos and 40 autographed items available. More are advancing in daily, and will be added throughout the auction. LNF welcomes added donations from celebrities to add to the arrangement --- it’s never too late! All autographed donations will account a adolescent with cancer.

LNF can be contacted at:
Luke Neuhedel Foundation
PO Box 137
Massapequa Park NY 11762.

LNF’s President, Rebecca Neuhedel, can be contacted at 516-882-9183. Online Celebrity Auction items can be beheld at www.lukefund.org. Donations are consistently acclimatized and bare by the children.

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Pancreatic Cancer Research Finds an Unexpected Ally in Upscale Online Boutique

What does an flush online bazaar accept in accepted with pancreatic blight research? After the accident of her bedmate to pancreatic blight in 2001, Susan Reichey has acclimated her online boutique, Pitney Manor, as a abstruse weapon in the action adjoin pancreatic cancer.

Jupiter, FL -- Pancreatic blight is the fourth arch could cause of cancer-related deaths. Nearly 32,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year alone, and all but a few hundred will not survive. It is one of the atomic adjourned researched cancers accepted today, but one woman and her adult online bazaar is aggravating to change all that.

The buyer of Pitney Manor, an online bazaar specializing in accomplished home décor, Susan Reichey absent her bedmate to pancreatic blight in 2001. Since then, she has been accomplishing aggregate she can anticipate of to access pancreatic blight awareness.

"Following the afterlife of my husband, Michael, I was bent that the best way for me to account his anamnesis would be to strive to access pancreatic blight awareness," said Reichey. "It was accordingly bounden aloft me that I become complex in adopting a belvedere that would acquiesce me to accomplish a living, and at the aforementioned time, accord to added clandestine donations for the aboriginal detection, treatment, and cure [for pancreatic cancer."

Reichey began distributing advice packets at bounded hospitals and doctors' offices. Each November, declared Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month by Congress in 2003, she encourages humans to brainwash themselves about pancreatic blight and to abrasion amethyst ribbons in support. Now through PitneyManor.com, Susan Reichey is accidental a allocation of every auction to The Michael J. Reichey Foundation, to account the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research.

"I am audacious by the actuality that I do not accept the access of a broadly accustomed name in society. I am assured that I can accretion bashful absorption to this alarming ache by my absolute backbone and boldness to action achievement for a bigger tomorrow for those that will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. By intertwining my business and its success with my absolute accord in this cause, I will abide focused on the accent of giving aback to humankind in my own claimed way."

Pitney Manor offers sophisticated, rare, and different home décor and apparel, including:
 

    Kashwere Robes, afresh apparent by Oprah Winfrey and accent in her 2005 Christmas Favorites Show Madiera Harvest Stoneware Murano Glass Stemware and Figurines
    Other atypical ability and home décor items awash in her online bazaar to account pancreatic blight research cover ambrosial shoe stuffers, sachets, accomplished linen placemats, baby alien covering goods, adorning pillows, candles, and an all-encompassing array of baby gifts.

    Please advice to advanced analysis on the diagnosis, treatment, cure, and blockage of pancreatic cancer. The funds contributed to the Michael J. Reichey Foundation are donated to the Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research. Visit www.PitneyManor.com to browse their all-encompassing alternative of accomplished home décor and ability and advice access their donations. Pitney Manor’s new Gift Registry is accessible now for users to actualize ambition lists of items they ambition from the website.

    For added advice apropos pancreatic cancer, amuse acquaintance The Lustgarten Foundation by visiting their web website at www.LustgartenFoundation.org or calling 866-789-1000.

    About Pitney Manor
    Susan G. Hartl Reichey founded the Pitney Manor online bazaar as a car to abutment Pancreatic Cancer Research while accouterment a assorted alternative of fine, flush home décor articles that are both acceptable and contemporary, all called to address to even the a lot of acute tastes.

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Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and NewsTalk 750 WSB Team Up to Promote Prostate Proactivity

Metro Atlanta men will accept the befalling to accept a chargeless prostate blight screening and educational advice on Monday 1/19 through Sunday 1/25 at baddest locations throughout the city. Aimed at accouterment Atlanta association with advice about prostate health, the Prostate Proactivity Campaign is an educational beat accomplishment by Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (RCOG) and NewsTalk 750 WSB. Prostate blight can be convalescent if appropriately treated. And the beforehand the diagnosis, the bigger the abiding adventitious of cure. This is why it is account accepting abreast about, and activated regularly, for this disease. Keep in apperception that prostate blight is about apathetic growing, so men who are diagnosed accept the time to apprentice about the analysis methods that advance to cure Prostate blight is an affliction that will blow one in every six men NewsTalk 750 WSB is committed to accouterment able association support, and we are blessed to accompany these chargeless screenings to the Atlanta association for the third year in a row.

Atlanta, GA -- For one anniversary in January, busline Atlanta men will accept the befalling to accept a chargeless and potentially life-saving prostate blight screening through the Prostate Proactivity Campaign, an educational beat accomplishment by Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia (RCOG) and NewsTalk 750 WSB.
Dr. Frank Critz of RCOG
The Prostate Proactivity Campaign aims to accommodate Atlantans with advice pertaining to prostate health. According to the American Cancer Society, prostate blight is the additional arch could cause of blight afterlife in American men, and one in six men will be diagnosed with the ache during his lifetime. However, with aboriginal apprehension and able prostate blight treatment the cure amount is about 100 percent.

"Prostate blight can be convalescent if appropriately treated. And the beforehand the diagnosis, the bigger the abiding adventitious of cure. This is why it is account accepting abreast about, and activated regularly, for this disease. Keep in apperception that prostate blight is about apathetic growing, so men who are diagnosed accept the time to apprentice about the analysis methods that advance to cure," said Dr. Frank Critz, medical administrator and administrator of prostate blight analysis at RCOG.

Prostate blight is detected through a simple claret analysis accepted as a PSA test, which determines the akin of prostate-specific antigen in the body. Men 50 years of age and earlier should be buried annually for prostate cancer. African American men and men with a ancestors history of prostate blight charge to activate testing at 40 years of age, as they are at a college accident of prostate cancer.

"Prostate blight is an affliction that will blow one in every six men," said Dan Kearney, carnality admiral and accepted administrator of NewsTalk 750 WSB. "NewsTalk 750 WSB is committed to accouterment able association support, and we are blessed to accompany these chargeless screenings to the Atlanta association for the third year in a row."

Prostate Proactivity bliss off on Martin Luther King Jr. Day (January 19) with a prostate blight screening at South Dekalb Mall (2081 Candler Road) in Decatur. Participating sponsor McDonalds will accommodate breakfast for this and all added screenings. Additional dates and locations include:

- Tuesday, January 20, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Kroger, 2655 Freedom Parkway, Cumming
- Wednesday, January 21, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Kroger, 3305 Centerville Highway, Snellville
- Thursday, January 22, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Kroger, at 3700 Salem Road, Covington
- Friday, January 23, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Kroger, 1160 Moreland Avenue, Atlanta
- Saturday, January 24, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Mall of Georgia, 3333 Buford Drive, Buford
- Sunday, January 25, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Town Center at Cobb, 400 Ernest W Barrett Parkway, Kennesaw

Representatives from RCOG will be on duke at contest to accommodate information about prostate health, prostate blight analysis options and cure rates. The 'Take Control of Your Prostate' announcement will be accessible at busline Atlanta Kroger Pharmacies and RCOG clinics in January.

If you accept prostate blight questions, or to apprentice added about prostate blight surgery and Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia, appointment RCOG.com and ProstRcision.com or alarm 1-800-952-7687.

About Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia:
Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia is a Center of Excellence for prostate blight analysis and research. Each year hundreds of men biking to accept prostate blight analysis in Atlanta, Georgia from RCOG. RCOG is one of the oldest prostate berry implant programs in the world. The aboriginal prostate implant for prostate blight at RCOG was performed in 1977, and the aboriginal accommodating was advised with the aggregate analysis now alleged ProstRcision in 1979. Dr. Frank Critz, architect and medical administrator of RCOG, developed the ProstRcision action and has advised added than 8,000 patients with the ache in the accomplished 25 years. RCOG is the alone antecedent for ProstRcision, in which two forms of radiation analysis are acclimated to abort the prostate gland. To date, about 12,000 men accept accustomed analysis with ProstRcision at RCOG's seven Metro Atlanta clinics. To apprentice more, amuse appointment rcog.com.

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Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and News/Talk 750 WSB Extend Prostate Proactivity Campaign

Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and News/Talk 750 WSB are teaming up to extend the Prostate Proactivity Campaign. The metro-Atlanta attack has been continued to cover a screening accident Saturday, February 28, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kroger amid at 540 Lakeland Plaza in Cumming, GA. Prostate blight can be convalescent if appropriately treated. And the beforehand the diagnosis, the bigger the abiding adventitious of cure. This is why it is account accepting abreast about and activated consistently for this disease. Keep in apperception that prostate blight is about apathetic growing, so men who are diagnosed accept the time to apprentice about the analysis methods that advance to cure News/Talk 750 WSB has consistently been committed to accouterment able association support We are blessed to accompany addition chargeless prostate blight screening to the Atlanta association to advance adaptation ante through aboriginal apprehension and acquaintance of analysis options.

Atlanta, GA -- Metro Atlanta men will accept an added befalling to accept a chargeless and potentially life-saving prostate blight screening through The Prostate Proactivity Campaign, an educational beat accomplishment of Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia and News/Talk 750 WSB. The attack has been continued to cover a screening accident Saturday, February 28, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Kroger amid at 540 Lakeland Plaza in Cumming.

Dr. Frank Critz of RCOG During the Prostate Proactivity screening, assembly from RCOG will be on duke to accommodate advice about prostate health, prostate blight treatment options and prostate blight alone cure rates. The Take Control of Your Prostate announcement will aswell be available.

According to the American Cancer Society, prostate blight is the additional arch could cause of blight afterlife in American men, and one in six men will be diagnosed with the ache during his lifetime. However, with aboriginal apprehension and able analysis the cure amount is about 100 percent.

"Prostate blight can be convalescent if appropriately treated. And the beforehand the diagnosis, the bigger the abiding adventitious of cure. This is why it is account accepting abreast about and activated consistently for this disease. Keep in apperception that prostate blight is about apathetic growing, so men who are diagnosed accept the time to apprentice about the analysis methods that advance to cure," said Dr. Frank Critz, medical administrator and administrator of prostate blight analysis at RCOG.

Prostate blight is detected through a simple claret analysis accepted as a PSA test, which determines the akin of prostate-specific antigen in the body. Men 50 years of age and earlier should be buried annually for prostate cancer. African American men and men with a ancestors history of prostate blight charge to activate testing at 40 years of age because they are at a college accident of developing prostate cancer.

"News/Talk 750 WSB has consistently been committed to accouterment able association support," said Dan Kearney, carnality admiral and accepted administrator of News/Talk 750 WSB. "We are blessed to accompany addition chargeless prostate blight screening to the Atlanta association to advance adaptation ante through aboriginal apprehension and acquaintance of analysis options."

The Third Annual Prostate Proactivity Campaign kicked off January 2009 on Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a prostate blight screening at South Dekalb Mall in Decatur. Six added screenings were captivated throughout the busline Atlanta across above-mentioned to the added screening appointed for Saturday, February 28.

If you accept prostate blight questions, or to apprentice added about prostate blight surgery and Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia, appointment RCOG.com and ProstRcision.com or alarm 1-800-952-7687.

About Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia:
Radiotherapy Clinics of Georgia is a Center of Excellence for prostate blight analysis and research. Each year hundreds of men biking to accept prostate blight analysis in Atlanta, Georgia from RCOG. RCOG is one of the oldest prostate berry implant programs in the world. The aboriginal prostate implant for prostate blight at RCOG was performed in 1977, and the aboriginal accommodating was advised with the aggregate analysis now alleged ProstRcision in 1979. Dr. Frank Critz, architect and medical administrator of RCOG, developed the ProstRcision action and has advised added than 8,000 patients with the ache in the accomplished 25 years. RCOG is the alone antecedent for ProstRcision, in which two forms of radiation analysis are acclimated to abort the prostate gland. To date, about 12,000 men accept accustomed analysis with ProstRcision at RCOG's seven Metro Atlanta clinics. To apprentice more, amuse appointment rcog.com.

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Healing Journeys' National Conference Comes to Greenville, South Carolina

Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to ThrivingTM will be captivated June 6-7, 2009 at Carolina First Center

Greenville, S.C. -- Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to ThrivingTM , a free, two-day appointment produced by Healing Journeys, will be captivated at the Carolina First Center (formerly Palmetto Expo Center) on June 6 (9:00-5:00) and 7 (9:15-1:00), 2009,. The appointment is advised to educate, inspire, affix and bless those whose lives accept been affected by blight or added life-altering illnesses. It brings calm blight survivors, caregivers and bloom affliction providers to apprentice about and acquaintance the healing of mind, anatomy and spirit.

Jeremy Geffen, MD, FACP is the keynote speaker. He is a medical oncologist and avant-garde in commutual oncology. He is the columnist of the book The Journey Through Cancer and architect of The Seven Levels of Healing. Other presenters include: Shayna Komar, RD, LD, a registered dietitian from Atlanta, Georgia, accustomed as the 2006 Distinguished Dietitian of the Year; Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nashville singer-songwriter and breast blight survivor; Anna L. Schwartz, FNP, PhD, FAAN, Executive Medical Director of Rehabilitation Systems at University of Washington and columnist of Cancer Fitness; Magician Chad Juros, a backstab blight and academician anaplasty survivor who has been an award-winning archimage back the age of seven; Debra Jarvis, an advancing minister, analyst for National Public Radio, survivor, and columnist of It's not about the hair; Anita Burroughs-Price, a arch harpist for the North Carolina Symphony and harp adviser at Furman University; and David B. Feldman, PhD, abettor assistant of counseling attitude at Santa Clara University and civic apostle on the ability of hope. The 19th Annual Cancer Survivors' Day anniversary will be captivated on Sunday, anon afterward the conference, from 1:30-3:30 PM.

It's harder to acquisition anyone whose activity hasn't been affected by blight in some way. We're absolutely aflame about accepting calm with the Upstate medical association to accommodate a bulletin of achievement and healing for those ambidextrous with cancer's appulse in their lives The absolute medical association has appear calm to accomplish this amazing accident accessible for patients on the East Coast. Cancer Centers of the Carolinas is the presenting sponsor and the Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center, Bon Secours St. Francis Health System, and Gibbs Cancer Center at Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System are all above contributors. It demonstrates the blight community's charge to accouterment administration and eyes in bloom affliction - bloom affliction that ceremoniousness and cares for the body, mind, affection and spirit with according skill, strength, and integrity. "It's harder to acquisition anyone whose activity hasn't been affected by blight in some way. We're absolutely aflame about accepting calm with the Upstate medical association to accommodate a bulletin of achievement and healing for those ambidextrous with cancer's appulse in their lives," said Jeffrey Giguere, MD, medical oncologist/hematologist at Cancer Centers of the Carolinas. The 2009 appointment is committed to Robin Davenport, a accommodating of Dr. Giguere's, who launched the eyes of bringing the appointment to Greenville in 2005; she died in January 2008, but through the conference, her bequest of achievement lives on.
Because of the acceptable association support, the appointment is chargeless except for the amount of meals.

Pre-registration is required. For added information, appointment www.healingjourneys.org or alarm (864) 255-5010. Brochures are accessible throughout the association or through your bloom affliction provider.

About Healing Journeys
Healing Journeys was formed as a non-profit alignment in California in 1994 to aftermath the Cancer as a Turning Point, From Surviving to ThrivingTM appointment by Jan Adrian, a three-time blight survivor.

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Atlanta Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon David Whiteman, MD Helps Breast Cancer Patients with Annual Sport of Giving Competition

Atlanta artificial surgeon David Whiteman, MD continues his charge to allowance victims and abeyant sufferers of breast blight with his captivation in The Sport of Giving and VolleyFest, an anniversary antagonism that has aloft added than one actor dollars to abutment breast blight affliction and blockage in Atlanta and surrounding communities.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) June 16, 2009 -- Atlanta artificial surgeon David Whiteman, MD continues his charge to allowance victims and abeyant sufferers of breast blight with his captivation in The Sport of Giving and VolleyFest, an anniversary antagonism that has aloft added than one actor dollars to abutment breast blight affliction and blockage in Atlanta and surrounding communities.

Since its birth in 2001, Dr. David Whiteman of Southern Plastic Surgery has been complex with VolleyFest, allotment of an anniversary breast blight fundraiser and acquaintance accident encompassing a array of alms antic competitions captivated about Atlanta. Originally alleged Volley for a Cure, VolleyFest is accepting bigger anniversary year, with added participants, added money raised, and added antic options added to its account of events. Now alleged The Sport of Giving, VolleyFest is the tennis clash basic of a alms alignment that aswell holds a Golf Invitational (SwingFest) and a 5K and 1-Mile Race (RunFest), advance out over a 5-week aeon in April and May. May, 2009’s VolleyFest played at venues throughout the Atlanta area, continuing the about decade-long attitude of adopting money to abutment breast blight affliction and prevention, and accouterment needs and casework to abounding across institutions and programs, including Gwinnett Medical Center, Northside Hospital Forsyth, and the Georgia Cancer Foundation.

As of 2008, The Sport of Giving letters that one actor dollars in accumulative giving has been raised. As a absolute aftereffect of the anniversary competition, added than $200,000 has been donated to Gwinnett Medical Center and $50,000 has been donated to Women’s Center Northside Forsyth Hospital. Also, Gwinnett Medical and Northside Hospital – Forsyth are now able with a adaptable mammography Care-A-Van; funds and a agenda screening centermost accept gone to the Mammography Center of Gwinnett Medical Center – Duluth; and Gwinnett Medical has implemented new, advanced agenda technology.

Begun in 2001 by Sheila Stevens, a woman who capital to accomplish a aberration in people’s lives while anniversary the spirit of her mother who had succumbed to cancer, VolleyFest originated as “Volley for a Cure,” and was brought to accomplishment by Stevens and accompany from the TPC at Sugarloaf golf course. Since then, “Volley for a Cure” has been renamed “VolleyFest,” and has gone from a accumulation of 56 women to added than 600 participants arena tennis at ten venues above the Atlanta area. As allotment of The Sport of Giving, VolleyFest involves affable tennis competitions, breast bloom education, and speeches from survivors of breast blight to advice accession money and awareness.

Dr. David Whiteman, arch of a top Atlanta artificial corrective surgery practice, serves as the medical adviser on The Sport of Giving’s Board of Directors. In accession to administering Southern Plastic Surgery, Dr. Whiteman is the administrator of the Breast Cancer Survivors Information Network and the Breast Cancer Buddy Group, and aswell serves as the Chief of Plastic Surgery at Gwinnett Hospital System. One of Dr. Whiteman’s areas of focus at Southern Plastic Surgery is breast reconstruction, and he has been a baton in establishing abutment groups amid breast about-face patients and blight survivors. As an Atlanta-area breast reconstruction surgeon, Dr. Whiteman performs procedures to charm the breasts afterwards they accept been removed in a mastectomy. Several years ago, he began abutment programs at his convenance advised to acquaint patients on a one-on-one basis, establishing a associate arrangement area patients can alarm allocution with their abutment ally about the acquaintance of breast about-face anaplasty and what they’ve gone through as blight survivors. The Sport of Giving, The Breast Cancer Survivors Information Network and the Breast Cancer Buddy Group now cover a breast blight handbook for Gwinnett and Forsyth County patients who accept afresh been diagnosed. The handbooks accommodate a accessible advertence for women to accept the ache and treatment, as able-bodied as the affections they may acquaintance and the accretion process.

This year’s Sport of Giving accident committed 2009 gain to four Atlanta-area organizations, including the Georgia Cancer Foundation’s bargain screening and analytic affairs to advice medically underserved women; the American Cancer Society’s Patient Navigator; Gwinnett Medical-Lawrenceville Women’s Center, and Northside – Forsyth Breast Care Center.

Dr. Whiteman is board-certified in both Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, and has been confined the Atlanta association back 1993.

For added data on Dr. David Whiteman’s captivation with The Sport of Giving and his breast blight abutment groups, or advice on Atlanta breast surgery procedures accessible at Southern Plastic Surgery, acquaintance the convenance at 3855 Pleasant Hill Rd, Suite #370, Duluth, Georgia 30096 – (770) 622-9100 – or via Dr. Whiteman’s website at www.southernplasticsurgery.com.

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CryoStim™ Cancer Treatment to Begin FDA Clinical Trials September 1, 2009

With its Investigational New Drug (IND) appliance austere by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Immunovative Therapies, Ltd. (ITL) appear that Phase I/II analytic trials of its beginning CryoStim™ blight vaccine artefact for the analysis of beat metastatic solid tumors will activate September, 2009. CryoStim™ is an abundant blight vaccine that is fabricated central the anatomy by accumulation the beginning AlloStim™ biologic with the killing of a called bump beef by the minimally invasive action alleged cryoablation. AlloStim™ contains active allowed beef absorbed to microbeads advised to activate and absolute the animal allowed arrangement to anon annihilate blight beef wherever they abide in the body. Phase I/II analytic trials will be conducted at its new analytic analysis accessory in Carlsbad, California. CryoStim™ represents a absolutely atypical access for ameliorative blight design Current therapies are not able of eliminating every endure blight corpuscle in the anatomy and appropriately bump ceremony is a accepted problem. If our beginning analysis is acknowledged it would be accessible to not alone annihilate every endure bump cells, but aswell for the allowed arrangement to bethink the bump in adjustment to anticipate recurrence.

San Diego, CA -- Immunovative Therapies Ltd. (http://www.immunovative.co.il.) has appear that its CryoStim™ beginning artefact has been austere by the FDA to activate animal analytic trials. Immunovative Therapies, Ltd. beginning articles are based aloft "Mirror Effect™" technology (patents issued and pending) which is advised to accommodate the aforementioned anti-tumor aftereffect that has been accurate to be alleviative in allogeneic cartilage bottom displace (BMT) procedures after the baleful toxicity or charge for a akin donor.

Dr. Berger sitting at he anxiety of Drue and James to the right.

Immunotherapy is a new modality for blight analysis which holds abundant affiance for acceptable a alleviative analysis with basal toxicity. It works calm with or replaces accepted analysis methods. The animal allowed arrangement is able of gluttonous out and antibacterial cancers beef wherever they abide in the body. Harnessing the ability of the allowed arrangement holds the greatest abeyant for acceptable the action adjoin cancer.

"CryoStim™ represents a absolutely atypical access for ameliorative blight design," says Dr. Michael Har-Noy, CEO and Chief Technical Officer. "Current therapies are not able of eliminating every endure blight corpuscle in the anatomy and appropriately bump ceremony is a accepted problem. If our beginning analysis is acknowledged it would be accessible to not alone annihilate every endure bump cells, but aswell for the allowed arrangement to bethink the bump in adjustment to anticipate recurrence."

Details about this blight vaccine balloon can be begin at www.immunocare.net and at clinicaltrials.gov: NCT00861107. View complete data on products, analytic trials and accurate abstract at the aggregation website.

About Immunovative:
Immunovative Therapies, Ltd. (ITL) is an Israeli-based biopharmaceutical aggregation with US accessories in Carlsbad, California. Founded in May 2004 with banking abutment from Israel's Office of the Chief Scientist, ITL is a alum of the Misgav Venture Accelerator, a affiliate of the apple acclaimed Israel abstruse incubator program. The aggregation was the Misgav Venture Accelerator's applicant for the cost for the outstanding incubator activity of 2006, awarded by the Office of the Chief Scientist. ITL specializes in the development of atypical immunotherapy biologic articles that absorb bioengineered active allowed beef as the breath capacity for analysis of cancer, autoimmune and communicable disease.

Contact:
Thu Bui at 760-444-9040

In the Pacific Northwest acquaintance Alan F. Hall JD at 425-774-9566

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