As reported by ABC40, October 28, 2007.Cancer Research Coming
To Western Massachusetts
CHICOPEE, Mass. -- Elms College and the University of Connecticut
Health Center will soon enter into a partnership that will introduce
cancer research to Western Mass. Many of the people involved in the
project got together in Longmeadow on Saturday evening at the Wally
Weeks residence. Weeks, whose wife died of ovarian cancer, has been
instrumental in putting the project together. Among those in attendance
Saturday was Dr. Molly Brewer, the head of academics at the UConn Health
Center in Farmington, Conn. "We're interested mainly in cancer, cancer
prevention, early detection. We're interested in educating patients,
edycating physicians about how to detect these early, how to determine
who's at risk. And then from the research end, what can we do to improve
the current state of things," said Dr. Brewer. The formal announcement
of the collaboration will be at a reception on November 8. Elms College
students will start participating next spring. There will soon be
screening programs in place in Western Mass.
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