Jun

19

2008

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Doctors Cure a Skin Cancer Using Patient’s Own Immune Cells

06:14AM by Alvin Lin

I’m posting this because it’s a huge medical breakthrough and the team appears to be led by Asian or Asian American scientists:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080618212711.38ht6zq0&show_article=1

US doctors have for the first time successfully treated a skin cancer patient with cells cloned from his own immune system, a study released Wednesday showed. The ground-breaking treatment for advanced melanoma, or skin cancer, led to a long remission for the patient and used his own cloned infection-fighting T-cells, said doctor Cassian Yee, the lead author of the study in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Yee and his associates from the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle removed CD4+ T-cells, a type of white blood cell, from a 52-year-old man whose melanoma had spread to a groin lymph node and to one of his lungs.  The melanoma was already well advanced and in stage four.

The T-cells which specifically fight melanoma were modified and expanded in the laboratory and some five billion cells were then infused into the patient, who received no other kind of treatment. Two months later no tumors were found during scans of the patient’s organs. And he has been cancer free for two years, Yee said. 

Apr

6

2008

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Videos: ‘Asian American Body Image’

07:30AM by Alvin Lin

“[Videos discussing] Asian American body image, beauty standards, eating disorders, and unspoken pressures to be thin in both American and Asian cultures. An otherwise taboo subject to talk about among specifically Asian Americans, students at Columbia University are now tired of keeping mum about the issue and are speaking out. “

Asian American Beauty: ‘Female Body Image’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv-WI6Vlrpk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XWQ62HdCs

Trailers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DmfcQ6n_8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawt3TaEbSo

Director Calvin Sun, ‘08, is Columbia’s incoming Senior Class Vice President