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• Purdue professors to advance breast cancer research partnership through trip to Ghana

  January 11, 2012

  

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue professors Sophie A. Lelievre and Ellen Gruenbaum will travel to Africa this month to meet with officials of Peace and Love Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, and outline ways to advance a partnership on breast cancer research

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• Purdue, IU awarded $500,000 NIH grant to launch cancer community engagement project

  October 27, 2011

  

  WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's Oncological Sciences Center and Indiana University will share a National Institutes of Health grant to launch a cancer advocacy network and advance research for applying systems-engineering principles to can

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Cancer Culture and Community

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