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Recipients of a frequently prescribed hormone therapy for prostate cancer are at higher risk of developing diabetes and cardiovascular disease, a Harvard Medical School study has found. The study, published last week in The Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that men receiving “GnRH agonist” hormone therapy faced a 44 percent greater risk of diabetes and a 16 percent greater risk of coronary disease when compared to those not receiving the hormones. “Patients and physicians need to be aware of the elevated risk as they make treatment decisions,” said study...
...Starr Foundation will award $100 million to five leading cancer research institutes in November, including the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...
...Broad Institute—a research coalition among MIT, Harvard, and several Harvard-affiliated hospitals, including the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute—will share the five-year grant with four New York research centers. The recipients include Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Rockefeller University, and Weill Medical College of Cornell University...
...York-based foundation has donated to Harvard in the past—including a $5 million gift for financial aid in 2004. The new money will fund the development of technology designed to investigate the molecular causes of cancer and, in turn, use this technology to create viable treatment options for patients, according to the Starr Foundation...
...goal in launching the Starr Cancer Consortium is to bring these exceptional institutions together in a manner that assures maximum efficiency and the greatest firepower in targeting cancer,” said Maurice R. Greenberg, the chairman of the Starr Foundation, in a press release. “This will enable us to achieve tangible results more quickly and decisively than any one or two members of the consortium could accomplish working alone...