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Help Defeat Cancer
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<p>The Help Defeat Cancer project ran on <a href="/facts/World_Community_Grid/PEA7aRGH">World Community Grid</a> from July 20, 2006, to April 2007. It sought to improve the ability of <a href="/facts/Medical_professionals/m5e2jXHp">medical professionals</a> to determine the best treatment options for patients with <a href="/facts/Cancer/PVW6n1D0">cancers</a> of the <a href="/facts/Breast_cancer/6hME580v">breast</a>, <a href="/facts/Head_and_neck_cancer/v8T8bNs7">head, or neck</a>. The project worked by identifying visual patterns in large numbers of <a href="/facts/Tissue_microarray/GQWmGs1g">tissue microarrays</a> taken from archived <a href="/facts/Tissue_(biology)/H7CpML7A">tissue</a> samples. By <a href="/facts/Correlation/egkluAEm">correlating</a> the pattern data with information about treatment and patient outcome, the results of this project could help provide better targeted <a href="/facts/Management_of_cancer/dezlwmAe">treatment options</a>. </p>