Stand Up To Cancer

Unsurprisingly, there's lots of cancer in the news this week. Right smack dab on the cover of The Paper of Record, a look into the costs, benefits, risks and rewards of Avastin, one of the drugs that came out of Dr. Judah Folkman's groundbreaking research on Angiogenesis. Some see Avastin as a wonder drug, others wonder whether it should cost $100,000/year.

Not to be outdone, another li'l New York newspaper introduces us to a do a Doctor who faces the dilemma of having access to effective but expensive new treatments for patients who need them but can't necessarily pay.

Sometimes people refer to education as the silver bullet for society's ills. That may seem a bit hyperbolic, but the National Cancer Institute buttressed the claim this week with a new reason to like school... it can save your life.

In other NCI news, the promising field of cancer nanotherapies provide a perfect example of why research spending is good for business and people.

One good complement to quality education can be awareness-raising teevee programming.

Given our partnership with MLB and their proven giving spirit , it's not surprising to find out that baseball can provide palliative powers to hospice patients. ESPN's Eric Neel shows us one such example in Georgia.

For a little more in the inspiration department, Senator Edward Kennedy made a dramatic return to the Senate chamber since his cancer diagnosis.

He's "smiling broadly", back at work, and we are too. Here's hoping for more good news in next week's links installment.

--Eli Dansky, Editor of SU2C Mag