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Please follow the cancerbeast.com blog as the staff makes contact with Subject Matter Experts and others at government agencies, hospitals, medical schools, universities, insurance companies, labs, biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Illumina On The Move
When I decided to have my whole genome sequenced, Debbie and I looked into a few hospitals and treatment centers that offer such service. We soon learned they had one thing in common. They were all using illumina machines for the testing process. We were curious about the company and set up a meeting with Sandra Balladares, PhD from illumina marketing.
Bryce Olson Hits A Home Run
Bryce Olson, who is a cancer sequencing patient and advocate, was one of the speakers on the “From Fear to Fierce” summit panel. In his discussion, Olson covered all the bases which we promote on cancerbeast.com.
Biden Cancer Summit
On September 21, 2018 Vice President Biden and Dr. Jill Biden convened a international Biden Cancer Summit and hosted the anchor event in Washington D.C. With help from their dedicated staff they put together an amazing event.
Cancer overtakes Heart Disease
As a cancer patient and retired firefighter I was interested in looking at cancer statistics in our country and the fire service. I didn’t like what I found. Evidence suggests cancer is now the leading cause of death among firefighters overtaking heart disease.
Cancer Consortium
We at cancerbeast.com agree with the recent recommendations from the National Cancer Moonshot program and were pleased to find one example in California.
Biopsy Trip
It was liver biopsy time for me at IU Health. If you read my last post, you know we selected the Indiana University Health Precision Genomics program in Indianapolis, Indiana for my gene sequencing. They search for individual cancer genes with mutations or variants. They will use my tissue to test the whole genome of 3 billion base pairs.
