Congratulations! Dr. Phillip Buckhaults, a researcher with USC's Center for Colon Cancer Research, is the co-author of a major study on breast and colorectal cancers, led by John Hopkins, appeared in the Thursday, Sept. 7, issue of Science.This work led to identification of 176 mutant genes that are likely contributing to breast and colorectal cancer, and that were not previously known to be so involoved. You can read the details in the links provided below.

Article by local newspaper: THE STATE (click for PDF)
Science Magazine Link: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/313/5792/1370

Congratulations to Dr. James Hebert, Virginie Daguise, James Burch, Michael Wargovich, and Lorne Hofseth and others on the article, "Colorectal Cancer Disparities in South Carolina: Discriptive Epidemiology, Screening, Special Programs and Future Direction." SCCMA Volume 102 Number 7 August 2006 pgs. 212-222 (www.scmanet.org)

Article by local newspaper: THE STATE (click for PDF)

"Screening for Colorectal Cancer: It REALLY Works!" at the Lumpkin Auditorium of USC's Moore School of Business. Dr. Robert Mayer, for whom USC's Samuel O. Thier-Robert Mayer Lectureship in Health Policy is partly named, was the featured speaker. Mayer is a professor of medicine in Harvard's Medical School and a director at the Center for Gastrointestinal Malignancies at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) in Boston.

South Carolina was one of 2 states selected by CRPF to be awarded funding to put on a Dialogue for Action Summit (targeting prevention and education related to colon cancer). This program is a 2 year process that is funded by the CDC. The Center for Colon Cancer Research has partnered with ACS and DHEC to support this initiative in South Carolina.

Congratulations! Sachidanand Hebbar received a fellowship form the Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation..

Congratulations! On May 5th, Dr. Micheal Wargovich was awarded the South Carolina Cancer Alliance (SCCA) 2006 Award for Research.

Congratulations! Dr James Burch, a new COBRE hire, has been awarded a VA VISN-7 Career Development award. This award pays up to 100% VA salary support for two years. Dr Burch will be working with Dr Hrushesky and Dr Wood and the GI section to try to determine if circadian disruption is associated with colonic polyp formation, whether evening melatonin can correct circadian disruption; and whether it can diminish polyp recurrence. This is a joint COBRE, USC, SCCC and Arnold School of Public Health and VA enterprise.

Congratulations! Dr. Wood has a paper accepted at Molecular Cancer Therapeutics “Circadian Clock Coordinates Cell Cycle Progression, Thymidylate Syntase, and 5-Fluoruracil Therapeutic Index”

Congratulations! The American Cancer Society has awarded Dan Dixon, Ph.D. at the University of South Carolina, a Research Scholar Grant in the amount of $711,000 to support the research project " Post-Transcriptional Targeting Cox-2 Gene Expression In Colorectal Cancer".

Read more: WISTV News Article

On March 13, 2006 The Center for Colon Cancer Research sponsored the first state wide dialogue for colorectal cancer in South Carolina. Over 75 participants attended and the First Lady of South Carolina, Jenny Sanford came to support researchers, advocates, clincians, public health and policy makers' work toward progress in the fight against colorectal cancer in our state.