Know Error Blog: DNA Confirmation of Positive Biopsy tag:www.knowerror.com,2011-08-22:/know_error_blog/2 2011-11-11T14:31:08Z Movable Type 4.26 Know Error is Sponsoring the Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Summit tag:www.knowerror.com,2011:/know_error_blog//2.55 2011-11-11T16:04:00Z 2011-11-11T14:31:08Z Mike http://www.knowerror.com Know Error is sponsoring the 2nd Annual Connecticut Challenge Survivorship Summit: "Bringing Together Leaders in Cancer Survivorship." This annual symposium will be held November 15, 2011 at the New Haven Lawn Club in New Haven, CT. The event is featuring speakers from world renowned cancer centers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Kenneth Miller, MD, Director of the Lance Armstrong Foundation Adult Survivorship Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will wrap up the program with a presentation titled: "Buy-in and Pushback: How survivorship fits into the system." Click here to learn more about this meeting.

The mission of the Connecticut Challenge is "to empower cancer survivors to live healthier, happier and longer lives."  According to its website, the Connecticut Challenge raised more than $1.4 million in 2010 with 86 cents of every dollar going towards program services and grants.

Know Error develops and markets the know error® system which utilizes bar coding, forensic principles and DNA matching to confirm that the biopsy samples being evaluated belong to the patient being diagnosed. Available for a diverse range of tissue types, including prostate and breast, the know error® system brings new levels of patient safety and diagnostic accuracy to the biopsy evaluation process.

Since the company's launch in 2009, hundreds of physicians in a variety of specialties have incorporated the know error® system as a standard for their patient care. To learn more about the know error® system, visit our website www.knowerror.com.

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