Lobbyists prompt US breast cancer campaign

Innovative Breast Cancer Awareness and Advocacy Campaign

Breast cancer is a major disease in Nigeria; in 2012, 27,304 new occurrences were diagnosed, and the number of mortalities was 13,960. Greater than 70% of patients present with advanced disease, which has a poor survival outcome. The mortality rates are high mainly because of a lack of awareness about breast health, screening guidelines, and treatment centers, and because of sociocultural barri...

BCCTBbp: the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank bioinformatics portal

BCCTBbp (http://bioinformatics.breastcancertissue bank.org) was initially developed as the data-mining portal of the Breast Cancer Campaign Tissue Bank (BCCTB), a vital resource of breast cancer tissue for researchers to support and promote cutting-edge research. BCCTBbp is dedicated to maximising research on patient tissues by initially storing genomics, methylomics, transcriptomics, proteomic...

Breast Implants and Breast Cancer

Lobbyists, Relationships, and Legislators’ Votes

For lobbyists, success is about who you know rather than what you know. Forming and maintaining relationships with legislators is key to public policy success for interest groups and lobbyists. In this paper, I examine how to operationalize the relationship between a legislator and a lobbyist. Disclosure forms on gifts may be a way to operationalize the relationships between legislators and lob...

The Cancer Research Campaign

What is it famous for? The Cancer Research Campaign (CRC) is one of two rival charities that dominate cancer research funding in the UK — the other being the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF). But most British people are probably more aware of the CRC's charity shops, which are on almost every high street. How did it begin? In 1923, a group of clinicians, who felt that the work of the ICRF h...