The Statesman

University Hospital teams up with Brookhaven to spread breast cancer awareness

Sarah Kirkup • April 15, 2014

The Stony Brook University Hospital will team up with the Town of Brookhaven next October for a month-long breast cancer awareness campaign called Turn the Town Pink. The campaign will feature a series of free lectures across Brookhaven from Stony Brook doctors, who are encouraged to discuss any topic about breast cancer they choose.

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Under the microscope: Stony Brook professor finds mechanism that affects cancerous tumor formations

Ruchi Shah • April 7, 2014

Dr. Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, an assistant professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Stony Brook University School of Medicine, has uncovered a previously unidentified mechanism through which a prominent protein in cells, STAT3, affects cancerous tumor formation.

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Sunrise Fund hosts fashion show for young cancer survivors

Rachel Siford • March 27, 2014

Children of all ages floated down the runway donning elegant dresses and big smiles to celebrate surviving their cancer treatments in a fairy tale themed fashion show hosted by The Sunrise Fund at Stony Brook on Wednesday, March 26.

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Under the microscope: Developing an effective treatment for cancer

Ruchi Shah • November 14, 2013

A research scientist in Stony Brook’s Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology by the name of Dr. Nobuhide Ueki is pioneering a technique to directly address the limitations of cancer treatment. He was further motivated to pursue this field of study after losing both of his grandparents to cancer. His lab is focused on creating a drug delivery system that will selectively target cancer cells, leaving normal cells healthy.

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The truth behind the pink ribbon

Hillary Steinberg • October 15, 2013

Let me start out with being amazingly clear on this. I, in no way shape or form, remotely support cancer as a disease. It’s an awful, devastating thing to happen. My father died of cancer when I was seventeen after having it for five years and his mother had breast cancer twice, so in absolutely no way am I trivializing it. However, it’s now Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and I feel we need address the fact that breast cancer has been reduced to a fad in our society. I want to address this even though I know my opinion will be considered unpopular.

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A Survivor’s Ambition

Michael Ruiz • September 3, 2013

She remembers colorful tiles and the hospital smell. She remembers the piggy bank with her name on it that someone had given her before an overnight stay. She remembers that her parents never put out many baby pictures because she had no hair.

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Students raise over $50,000 for American Cancer Society

Kelly Zegers • May 2, 2013

Stony Brook’s third Relay for Life took place on April 27 at the campus recreational fields, continuing throughout the night until the next morning. This year, the 74 teams and 628 participants raised...

Going bald for a cause

Frank Posillico • April 18, 2013

Nicole Bansen, a Stony Brook Journalism student and editor at The Statesman, decided to donate her hair and shave it all off for St. Baldrick's this year.

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Doctor uses innovative liver cancer treatment

Ruchi Shah • March 11, 2013

Dr. Carl Tack is revolutionizing treatment of cancerous tumors in the liver as one of the only radiologists in the nation to use an innovative new procedure. The liver is prone to tumors that originate...

Plain packing: Is it time the Government butt out?

Brittany MacDougall • October 9, 2012

Smoking is bad for you. It causes cancer, emphysema, ruins your skin and can cause gross black stuff to grow on your lungs. You shouldn’t do it. We get it. Yet people still choose to smoke, and many...

The lipid: humble origins to cancer and aging treatments

Ruchi Shah • October 8, 2012

The same lipids that make up the membranes of our cells are now being found to play a role in the development of cancer and aging. For years, these fat molecules—including those called ceramide—were...

Losing hair, growing funds for pediatric cancer research

Nelson Oliveira • March 19, 2012

Bee Farina’s daughter was diagnosed with a very rare type of cancer in September 2007. Less than a year after that, 13-year-old Meghan lost her battle against Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) — a destructive tumor located in the pons region of the brainstem.

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