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Golfers Against Cancer, Columbus, Tee Time is August 1

July 20, 2005: Golfers Against Cancer's 4th Annual Shannon L. Casey Mers Memorial golf outing will take place on August 1, 2005. Since August of 2002, Golfers Against Cancer, Columbus, has raised about $70,000 for bone cancer research at Indiana University. This year's event will be held at the Little Turtle Country Club in Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. The golf outing includes lunch, dinner and a silent auction.

Osteosarcoma Online Launches Music As Therapy

April 25, 2005: Osteosarcoma Online has developed a unique tool that now allows its users to experience Music As Therapy. Traditionally music therapy is provided in a health care setting where a music therapist is present in the same room as you to guide you through the session. Carefully planned musical exercises can help you relax, be creative, change your mood, express your feelings and reduce your pain. Osteosarcoma Online now allows you to experience a typical music therapy exercise using the Internet. Music As Therpay introduces music as a means for coping with cancer and presents an exercise for experiencing music as therapy.

Indiana University Osteosarcoma Researchers to Participate in International Symposium

April 13, 2005: International leaders in the cancer and bone fields will gather April 28-30, 2005, for the only medical meeting in North America that specifically focuses on bone complications of cancer. Bone complications of cancer include bone loss resulting from cancer treatment and metastasis, or spreading from site of origin, to the bone. During this three-day symposium, clinicians and basic researchers will discuss cutting-edge research investigating such complications and how they may be better treated and prevented.

Potential Target for Osteosarcoma Therapy Controlled by Fluid Released Following Normal Body Movement

February 21, 2005: An understanding of normal activity in bone helps us understand how to better control abnormal activity in osteosarcoma. A study by investigators at Indiana University School of Medicine demonstrated for the first time that fluid generated by normal body movement controls the activity of beta-catenin, a protein which undergoes abnormal changes during certain cancers such as osteosarcoma and may be a suitable target in therapy.