CBCRP NEWS

Join the CBCRP Team in the Cause to Run™
Bay area runners, walkers, and joggers will be pounding the pavement in support of breast cancer research at the San Francisco MarathonTM on Sunday, July 29. We’re honored that the CBCRP has been selected as a participant in the event’s Cause to RunTM. Donations received through Cause to RunTM will support CBCRP researchers throughout the state to improve breast cancer prevention, detection, and treatment. Please join us—join Team 32 or sponsor our runners, and help us fight breast cancer, one mile at a time. Visit www.causetorun.com for all the information.

CBCRP Launches Events E-Newsletter
In May, we launched our inaugural CBCRP Events E-Newsletter. The E-Newsletter will give subscribers timely announcements of funding opportunities, early notification of new research resources and breast cancer conferences, and avenues to stay involved, informed, and active in the fight against breast cancer. To subscribe to the E-Newsletter, email us at getinfo@cabreastcancer.org and tell us to add you to our list.

Free Access to Journal Abstracts
Are you interested in reading the latest research from around the world, but can’t afford to thumb through every research and medical journal? The BCN News delivers summaries of the latest breast cancer research articles and published abstracts to your email, for free, courtesy of a partnership between the CBCRP and BreastCancer.Net. To sign up for The BCN News, go to www.breastcancer. net/, click “Subscribe”, and fill out the form. Type “CBCRP” in the space for promo code, and they’ll extend their normal, two-week complimentary subscription for an entire year.

Cure Disease with Your Computer
Put your computer to work: the CBCRP has joined IBM and over 300 partners in World Community Grid’s efforts to harness the world’s computers to solve the world’s problems. World Community GridTM runs projects submitted by public and nonprofit organizations that address health, poverty, and environmental issues. World Community GridTM is powered by the computers of over 295,000 people in more than 200 countries. People donate their computer’s unused processing power through a grid technology network, reducing data analysis from years to months. As of January 2007, World Community GridTM has analyzed an astounding 73,000 years of compute time. Please join World Community GridTM and join the CBCRP Team. Visit www.CABreastCancer. org/wcg.php to read more.

Spread the Word about California Breast Cancer Research Fund
The California Breast Cancer Research Program (CBCRP) is seeking assistance in spreading the word of how California income tax payers can “Invest in a Cure” for breast cancer by simply contributing to the California Breast Cancer Research Fund on their State Income Tax form 540.

You can help by:

Mary Anne Kreshka
Cheryl Koopman

New Featured Researchers
Ever wonder where a project was going or what happened to the project after it ended with CBCRP? Well, this is your chance to find out without having to wade through technical papers or wait for the news to hit the popular press. Just ask the researchers directly.

Our website now hosts a Featured Researcher page. Every two months, we spotlight another researcher or research team and highlight the progress they’re making against breast cancer. The Featured Researcher page includes a Q&A segment—we’ll take your questions during that spotlight period and post their answers.

This month’s featured researchers are Mary Anne Kreshka of the Northern Sierra Rural Health Network and Cheryl Koopman of Stanford University who have teamed together to determine how to improve psychosocial support for rural, isolated, and low-income breast cancer patients. They will be available to answer questions in until June 22.

You can also learn about our featured investigators in the featured researcher archives. Two previous investigators are Stefanie Jeffrey of Stanford University and Shiuan Chen of Beckman Research Institute. Stefanie Jeffrey is using genomic analysis to identify the critical genes that differentiate normal cells from breast cancer cells with the ultimate goal of identifying targets for the development of patient-specific, low toxic therapies for breast cancer. Shuian Chen is studying the chemopreventive properties of the aromatase inhibitors in grape seed and white button mushrooms.

Visit www.cabreastcancer.org/research/feature/ to read more.