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® CREATIVELY AND INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED BY THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE NONA AUGUST 2018 The Artist: Volume 3 | Issue 7 Battling Mental Monsters and Finding Hope on page 11 CREATOR MINDSET: BEHIND THE SCENE: RETHINK LIFE: HOW TO TAME NEW COLUMN!! IN THIS ISSUE WASTED TALENT RESOURCES FOR TEENS YOUR TEMPER ASK LADY NONA: WHERE IS 9 19 E12 MY VILLAGE? E13 LOCAL LEADERS, 4 BUSINESS & REAL ESTATE, 6 FEATURES, 12 HEALTH & WELLNESS, 18 EDUCATION, 25 EVENTS & ACTIVITIES, E2 FOOD & DRINKS E4 LIFESTYLE E6 SPORTS & FITNESS E14 ARTS & CULTURE E19 NONAHOOD CALENDAR, E23 Orlando, FL 32827 FL Orlando, 6555 Sanger Rd Sanger 6555 Nonahood News LLC News Nonahood PUBLISHER'S DESK ® CREATIVELY AND INDEPENDENTLY PRODUCED BY THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE NONA I Love My Job Publishers Rhys & Jenny Lynn BY RHYS LYNN Lead Web Developer Michael Perez I’ve said it before, but I never imag- ined I’d have a newspaper. What an Editor-in-Chief interesting thing for a self-professed Elaine Vail tech-nerd to get involved in. It’s Lead Content Developer an anachronism in some ways, but there’s something intangible that pro- Nicole LaBosco vides value and drives engagement in Multimedia Specialist the people who read it. Maybe it’s the Brielle Perez fact that it is tangible -- something that you can physically hold in a world Staff Writers/Reporters We had the opportunity to ask Deepak Chopra what he thought about Lake Nona that is increasingly focused on the on- ... video coming soon! Brittany Bhulai, Linda Carvin, Vanessa Poulson, line and virtual world. That’s the part Sophia Rogers I love -- I feel like what we do has im- I love helping to drive awareness for There’s something about the journal- pact, purpose, meaning and value. local charities. Stories about charities ism field that draws people who truly Contributing Writers in need of help, announcing their up- want to be in that environment. 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The College In 2012, she dis- Cancer Cells in of Medicine is only the second research covered a pep- entity in Florida with the machines. A gift tide called CT20 from the Catherine McCaw-Engelman that kills meta- Blood Thanks and Family Cancer Research Collabora- static cancer tive Fund made the purchase possible. The cells. The peptide To Patient’s other CELLSEARCH system is at the Mof- disrupts chaper- fitt Cancer Center in Tampa. onin, a protein Family Dr. Annette Khaled, who leads the College that prompts the of Medicine’s cancer research division, folding mecha- nism inside can- BY DR. DEBORAH C. GERMAN, M.D. recently began using the machines to test Ana Carr, Ph.D., a scientist in the College of Medicine’s Cancer Research Division, works blood samples from 48 women with meta- cer cells. If the with the college’s new CELLSEARCH equipment. PHOTOS COURTESY UCF COLLEGE inner workings OF MEDICINE static breast cancer who are being treated of the cell can’t at Orlando Health’s UF Cancer Center. Engelman. “We now have the technology fold into 3D units, the cell dies. The first stage of Dr. Khaled’s research is to analyze cancer in that tube of blood. to isolate and count the number of circu- Dr. Khaled’s previous studies have shown We couldn’t think of a better way to honor lating tumor cells in the patient’s blood to that the higher a patient’s levels of chap- Beth and to give back.” evaluate the progress the cancer is making. eronin, the sicker they are. One goal of the The technology is so advanced it can de- The next step will be to study the makeup new CELLSEARCH technology is to docu- tect as few as two circulating tumor cells in of the cells and how they respond to a new ment the levels of chaperonin in the cir- one milliliter (1/5 of a teaspoon) of blood. therapy Dr. Khaled has developed through culating cancer cells before and after the funding from the Breast Cancer Research peptide treatment. Levels of five tumor cells in a sample are considered evidence of metastatic cancer. Foundation. Elizabeth (Beth) McCaw-McKinney’s fam- Detecting the number of circulating tumor “There are thousands and thousands of ily said they were inspired to donate funds cells in the blood can warn doctors that a cells in a drop of blood,” Dr. Khaled ex- for the machine after their sister died of patient’s cancer is spreading – before they plained.