World Conference on Breast Cancer Foundation Board member, Dr. Tam Truong Donnelly has recently got amazing news, as the University of Calgary–Qatar was awarded a research grant of $1,010,343 USD to study, "Factors that Influence Breast Cancer Screening Practices Amongst Arabic Women Living in the State of Qatar." The project is the brainchild of Tam, who is an Associate Professor at the Univercity. Tam will be the Lead Principal Investigator and says, "I'm very excited and honored that our proposal has been deemed to be valuable and significant enough to get funding that could potentially have a major impact on the health of women living in Qatar".
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women living in Arab countries. Al Amal Hospital in Doha reported that 20 percent of cancer cases receiving treatment in 2007 were breast cancer among women. Data obtained from the Gulf Centre for Cancer Registration for breast cancer incidence from 1988-2002 ranked Qatar as third highest in the Middle East region, just after Bahrain and Kuwait.
Congratulations Tam!
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My congratulations, Tam! Keep it up!-)))
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