Lucy Buttermark, 85, a founding parent of Eden II for special needs, dies of complications from Covid.
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 28, 2021
From the left, sons John Jr. and Michael and Lucy and John Buttermark. (Courtesy/Peggy Buttermark) Staten Island Advance
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Lucy (Lucia) Taylor Buttermark, whose altruistic nature, dedication and compassion toward others paved the way for people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, died Jan. 25 due to complications from the coronavirus. She was 85.
Born Lucia Perillo, the Westerleigh resident was a founding parent of the Eden II programs and she held a number of positions within the organization including that of president of the board of trustees.
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THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) today announced results from the Phase 2 cohort of the CodeBreaK 100 clinical study evaluating investigational sotorasib (AMG 510) in 126 patients with
KRAS G12C-mutated advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The results will be presented during the Presidential Symposium at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) 2020 World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) and are the first from a completed pivotal Phase 2 study in NSCLC with a median follow-up of more than one year.
Sotorasib demonstrated a confirmed objective response rate (ORR) and disease control rate (DCR) of 37.1% and 80.6%, respectively, and a median duration of response of 10 months (data cutoff of Dec.1, 2020; median follow-up time was 12.2 months). The results also highlighted that sotorasib is the first KRAS
Print Memorial Sloan Kettering gynecologic oncologist and surgeon Carol Brown speaks with children at a community health fair in Harlem.
Memorial Sloan Kettering offers an array of programs designed for a wide audience of patients, their families, caregivers, and community members. These programs help to educate the public about cancer-related topics such as prevention, screening, and treatment. In addition to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s institutional initiatives, our physicians, nurses, and other staff members frequently volunteer their time and cancer expertise in partnership with other organizations in the community.
Our Office of Community Affairs also provides our local community members with up-to-date information about activities at Memorial Sloan Kettering that may be of interest.
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January 23, 2021
By Nanci Dixon
In the midst of an abundance of bad news – rising COVID numbers, unemployment, evictions, homelessness and hunger – some good news stories still bubble to the surface.
We find ourselves mostly posting bad, sad or frustrating news in our Sunday newsletter. It’s not our fault, of course, but we want to make sure you come here and smile too. That’s why we’re bringing you this “Good News” column.
24 VOLUNTEERS AND MORE THAN 9,000 POUNDS OF TRASH
The Tennessee River in Humphreys County, Tennessee, is a much cleaner place now due to the efforts of a small group of volunteers that removed more than 9,000 pounds of trash between October and January. Johnsonville State Historic Park and Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful combined efforts to organize the cleanup.
Sloan Kettering Institute specialists offer news answer to 100-year-old malignancy secret Date: 23 Jan,2021
The year 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of a basic discovery that is taught in every biochemistry textbook. In 1921, German doctor Otto Warburg observed that cancer cells harvest energy from sugar sugar in a strangely inefficient manner: instead of”burn” it using cancer cells do what yeast do they ferment it. This oxygen-independent process occurs quickly, but leaves a lot of the energy in glucose untapped.
Various hypotheses to describe the Warburg effect have been suggested over time, including the idea that cancer cells have defective mitochondria their”energy factories” and therefore cannot perform the controlled burning of glucose. (Cancer cells’ mitochondria work just fine, for example.)