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Upcoming Meetings

Faculty Meetings

Wednesday, April 9th, 12 pm
Location: Rubin 852
Speaker: Gregg Fairbrothers
Topic: Patents

Wednesday, April 23rd, 12 pm
Location: Rubin 852
Speaker: Nancy Wray and Kathy Page
Topic: New grant system at Dartmouth

Epi-Chemo Meetings

Friday, April 25th, 9 am
Location: Rubin 852
Speaker: Dr. Sandra Steingraber
Topic: TBA

Wednesday, May 21st, 12 pm
Location: Rubin 852
Speaker: Andy Houseman, UMASS Lowell
Topic: TBA

Friday, May 23rd, 1pm
Location: DHMC, Auditorium F
Speaker: Steiner Tretli, Norweigan Cancer Registry
Topic: TBA

Wednesday, May 28th, 12 pm
Location: Rubin 852
Speaker: Hanne Stensheim, Norweigan Cancer Registry
Topic: Cause-specific survival in women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy or lactation.

Faculty in the News

Tor Tosteson for SPORT
DMS magazine article

Linda Titus-Ernstoff for Smoking in movies
DMS magazine article
Reuters article

Recent Articles

Long-term study puts folate to the acid test - Dartmouth Medicine Magazine Fall 2007

Folic acid, a B vitamin credited with building strong spines in infants, may have a dark side for colorectal health in adults. A decade-long study by the Polyp Prevention Study Group (PPSG), a consortium of researchers at Dartmouth and several other medical centers, found that people who took supplemental folic acid had at least as many adenomas—precursors of most colorectal cancers—as those who took a placebo.

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Tea Drinkers at Lower Risk for Skin Cancers - Norris Cotton Cancer Center August 2007

A recent study by Norris Cotton Cancer Center researchers has shown that people who drink tea are less likely to have squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or basal cell carcinoma (BCC). An article in the May, 2007 Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology described the study led by Judy R. Rees, PhD, Research Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School.

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