June is Cancer Immunotherapy Awareness Month.
June is Cancer Immunotherapy Awareness Month! With so many exciting advances in therapies that strengthen the immune system's power to conquer
cancer, it's time to increase the public's awareness of this revolutionary new treatment approach.
The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is the world's only nonprofit organization dedicated exclusively to harnessing the immune system's power
to conquer all cancers.
As the pioneers in cancer immunotherapy, The CRI brings you a series of events throughout the month of June that will not only teach you more about
global efforts to mobilize the immune system against cancer, but will also provide you opportunities to get involved and help us save the lives of
more cancer patients.
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LifeScience Moment: Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.
On June 25, 1938, Congress passed the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with new
provisions. President Roosevelt signed it into law which for the first time
required manufacturers to show that a drug was safe before it could be marketed.
The 1938 act followed a therapeutic disaster when over 100 tragic deaths in 15 states,
as far east as Virginia and as far west as California were associated with an untested
medicine, Elixir Sulfanilamide, manufactured by S. E. Massengill Company in Bristol,
Tennessee (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). The regulatory authorities granted by this
law are still in effect today.
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Life Science Evolution...
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It's a Small World
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Group C Streptococcus
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Science Quote
"Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional."
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Charles Franklin Kettering, U. S. engineer
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