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Hats Off For Cancer

Nonprofit organization that provides support for children affected by cancer. The signature activity of the charity is to collect donated hats for distribution to children battling cancer—especially children with alopecia resulting from their treatment.

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Anthony Nolan

Anthony Nolan is a UK charity that works in the areas of leukaemia and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to the Anthony Nolan Register, which is part of an aligned registry that also includes the Welsh Bone Marrow Donor Registry, and the National Blood Service ran British Bone Marrow Registry

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The Angiogenesis Foundation

United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization established in 1994 for the study of angiogenesis.

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Andrew’s Helpful Hands

Andrew's Helpful Hands mission is to help families going through the Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) process. They assist in organizing bone marrow drives, promote fundraisers to help with finances, and lend a hand during the recovery stages of the operation as well

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The INCTR Challenge Fund

Raising funds for projects co-ordinated by the International Network for Cancer Treatment Research (INCTR) that improve the care delivered to cancer patients in developing countries and help reduce their suffering.

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The American Brain Tumor Assocation

The first and is now the only national nonprofit organization in the United States dedicated to providing support services and programs to brain tumor patients and their families, as well as the funding of brain tumor research.

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AIM at Melanoma Foundation

The largest non-profit international organization focused on increasing support for melanoma research; promoting prevention and education among the general public and medical professionals; and providing comprehensive and easily accessible melanoma resources for patients, survivors, and caregivers

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The Hopes Fund for Cancer Research

The mission of the Hope Funds for Cancer Research is to encourage investigation of innovative cancer treatment and detection for the most difficult-to-treat and understudied cancers
 

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The Hong Kong Cancer Fund

Hong Kong's largest cancer support organization

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The Brain Tumour Charity - The Henry Barnfield Fund

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The Caring for Carcinoid Foundation

The specific objectives and purposes of the Foundation are to support doctors and scientists who are researching the causes of carcinoid and related neuroendocrine tumors and developing treatments; and to inform the public about research and treatments.

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Caring Cancer Trust

UK-based cancer registered charity that raises money for cancer research

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THE ADDARIO LUNG CANCER MEDICAL INSTITUTE

A patient-founded non-profit research consortium established to help make lung cancer a survivable disease

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The Oral Cancer Foundation

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Medical Mystery: Monica

Scientists sequenced DNA from a young woman’s lung cancer tumor in hopes of finding the genetic changes that enabled it to keep growing.

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All in the family: getting to the heart of the matter

Rick’s gene sequencing had revealed a genetic condition called Hereditary Neuropathy with liability to Pressure Palsies (HNPP)

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“We Gained Hope.” The Story of Lilly Grossman’s Genome

ADCY5 and DOCK3 mutations was the cause of Lily's muscle spasms and muscle weakness

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Undiagnosed Diseases Program (UDP) Discovers a New Disease

New NT5E mutation discovered in 3 families, causing calcium deposits building up in the arteries of their legs and in the joints of their hands and feet, resulting in pain and cramping, poor circulation, and reduced mobility.

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Harnessing the full 'omics potential of personalized medicine

A study by Stanford University's Michael Snyder, Ph.D. which demonstrated an integrative personal omics profile (iPOP) approach to personalized medicine can identify disease risks from a genomic sequence and can monitor disease states through other molecular components

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DNA Test for Rare Disorders Becomes More Routine

DNA sequencing, more accessible than ever, opens new doors for diagnoses

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Kids who don't cry: New genetic disorder discovered

Doctors discover NGLY1 mutations in Grace Wilsey.

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Mutations in NGLY1 cause an inherited disorder of the endoplasmic reticulum–associated degradation pathway

The newly named disease is called NGLY1 deficiency has been found in eight children with mutations in the gene encoding for N-glycanase 1, an enzyme that "recycles defective products from a cellular assembly line."

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One in a Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery

Nicholas Volker is a little boy with a rare, devastating disease. In a desperate bid to save his life, Wisconsin doctors decide to push medicine's frontier.

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Doctor Survives the Cancer He Studies

Using advanced sequencing and analysis technology, researchers at The Genome Institute and their colleagues have helped their fellow doctor, Lukas Wartman, survive the cancer he studies.

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