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		<title>Spotlight on ROY Estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shirley Roy, proprietor of ROY Estate, will be one of the many vintners to participate in the 2012 Kentucky Bluegrass Wine Auction &#38; Derby Gala. She joins LCF for a second year and will be serving her award winning wines at the auction.
ROY Estate got its start in 1999 after Shirley and her husband, Charles, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/03/spotlight-on-roy-estate/</link>
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		<title>Newspaper feature offers cancer survivors chance to share</title>
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The New York Times wants to hear from cancer survivors for their “Picture Your Life After Cancer” page. The daily newspaper is asking for American cancer survivors to send in a photo and brief description of how their life has changed after treatment ended.
All submitted photos are loaded into a collage to be viewed on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/03/newspaper-feature-offers-cancer-survivors-chance-to-share/</link>
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		<title>Research participants needed in Lexington for study on cancer causes</title>
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People looking for a way to make an impact on cancer research now have a chance. The American Cancer Society is in need of  participants for a ground-breaking research study.
This spring, ACS is opening enrollment for a national cancer prevention study, known as Cancer Prevention Study- 3 (or CPS-3). Men and women between the ages [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/03/research-participants-needed-in-lexington-for-study-on-cancer-causes/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on Revana Family Vineyard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Wine is one of nature’s most welcome and wholesome of gifts.”- Dr. Madaiah Revana
Two years ago, LCF was honored to have Dr. Madaiah Revana, proprietor of Revana Family Vineyard serve as the 2010 Kentucky Bluegrass Wine Auction &#38; Derby Gala Vintner Chair. Dr. Revana devoted much of his time and energy to make the 2010 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/03/spotlight-on-revana-family-vineyard/</link>
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		<title>Fasting may boost chemo treatments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new study conducted by the University of Southern California supports short-term fasting could assist chemotherapy cancer treatments.
The study was recently published in the Science Translation Medicine Journal and research shows that when cancer patients abstain from food for a short time while undergoing chemotherapy treatment, some cancers were cured. Cancers included breast, melanoma and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/fasting-may-boost-chemo-treatments/</link>
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		<title>High school students seeks cure for cancer</title>
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High school student Angela Zhang, 17, says she is a typical teenage girl.
She stays busy studying for her upcoming driver&#8217;s license exam, enjoys playing the piano and has a soft spot for shoe shopping.  But this Cupertino, Calif., teen decided to do something else in her spare time. She wrote a medical research paper on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/high-school-students-seeks-cure-for-cancer/</link>
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		<title>Spotlight on Domaine Serene</title>
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Making the trip to Lexington this May for the 2012 Kentucky Bluegrass Wine Auction &#38; Derby Gala is Ken and Grace Evenstad, proprietors of Domaine Serene.
Originally from Minnesota, the Evanstad couple now calls the Dundee Hills region of Oregon home. After many years as wine enthusiasts, the two decided to pursue the dream of owning [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/spotlight-on-domaine-serene/</link>
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		<title>Eddie Montgomery featured in national cancer publication</title>
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Grammy nominated country music artist and Kentucky native Eddie Montgomery opened up to Coping with Cancer magazine in the January/February issue about his fight against prostate cancer and his efforts to encourage men of all ages to get their prostate checked.
Montgomery told the publication he first learned of his diagnoses after speaking up about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/eddie-montgomery-featured-cancer-publication/</link>
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		<title>Beanies for Baldies</title>
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Preston Allen may only be 10, but he has already found a way to bring smiles to many cancer patients.
Preston and mother, Tonya, sew hats and present them to cancer patients suffering from hair loss due to chemotherapy at Vanderbilt Children&#8217;s Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. The mother-son team call their sewing project &#8220;Beanies for Baldies&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/beanies-for-baldies/</link>
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		<title>New breast cancer screening tool comes to UK Markey Cancer Center</title>
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This February, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center will begin offering state-of-the-art digital tomosynthesis for breast cancer screenings. UK will become the first and only medical center in Kentucky to use this new 3-D technology, the Lexington hospital announced in a release.
Tomosythesis will be used by radiologist to see patient’s breast structure, eliminating confusion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lexingtonfoundation.org/2012/02/new-breast-screening-cancer-tool-comes-to-uk-mark/</link>
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