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    How baldness can prevent cancer in kids?
    By Paul Knoepfler | March 13th 2012 06:24 PM | 1 comment | Print | E-mail | Track Comments
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    Associate Professor of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy at UC Davis School of Medicine. Long-time stem cell and cancer scientist. Cancer survivor...

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    It seems like a lot of my blogs have the word "baldness in them", huh?

    The latest post today is on the apparent inverse correlation between baldness and pediatric cancer.

    You might be scratching your head (bald or not) at this point.

    The connection is explained by the St. Baldrick's Foundation (St. B).

    Every year St. B raises money for kids with cancer and a core fundraising event is shaving heads.

    So-called "Shavees" get pledges from people and make good on their promise to shave their heads in solidarity with kids who have cancer, many of whom face baldness due to their radiation or chemo treatments.

    We held a St. B shaving event last night here in Sacramento which was a blast and I ended up a shavee. 

    Here's my St. B. page where you can check out my chrome dome and if so inclined make a donation to help kids with cancer through research. St. B. is an awesome foundation!


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    Hank
    Oh man, I would have raised some money and done that, had I known about it. I have zero clue what my head would look like bald.  But it is worth a shot to find out. If I can ever get their login to work, I'm in for a few bucks!
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