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Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center New research from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center provides the first evidence that a cancer patient’s level of financial worry as they begin t…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Anthony Faber, PhD, and a team of researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center are studying how the gene MYCN and an abundance of iron can drive cancer cell d…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Cynthia M. Yoshida, MD, is one of six winners of a national award recognizing health care providers and institutions for their work to increase colorectal cancer…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center From cyanobacteria blooms found off the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale, University of Florida researchers have discovered a novel marine natural …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Michelle Ozbun, PhD, and her team developed a way to measure how many infectious human papillomavirus particles are left on a surface after…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey has named Michael E. Salacz, MD, as director of its neuro-oncology program. He joins Rutgers from the University o…

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford researchers have found that initiating colonoscopy screening between the ages of 45 and 49 halves the risk of subsequent development of colorectal cancers. …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Contrary to long-held beliefs, Type I collagen produced by cancer-associated fibroblasts may not promote cancer development but instead plays …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A new cancer immunotherapy prototype uses engineered T cells to target a genetic alteration common among all cancers. The …

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Jason Sicklick, MD, FACS, a surgical oncologist at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, was recently announced as an award honoree by the National Organizat…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital have established the Brain Tumor Center. The multidisciplinary practice of physicians and…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Two new studies published by investigators at The Ohio State University and the UNC …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study finds that inherited genetic variation plays a role in who is likely to benefit from checkpoint inhibitors. The study also poin…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Utah researchers report significant new insights into the development of blood cancers. In recently published work scientists describe an an…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A study conducted by a team of scientists at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, led by Greg Delgoffe, PhD, shows how che…

UK Markey Cancer Center After conducting a study to assess the need for cancer education materials in Appalachian Kentucky, members of UK Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in …

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope scientists have combined a checkpoint inhibitor with an anti-parasitic drug, ivermectin, to successfully treat triple-negative breast canc…

In a survey of the status of care across cancer center networks, AACI has found that many opportunities exist for such networks to increase patient satisfaction and outcomes and decrease treatment de…

American Association for Cancer Research José Baselga, MD, PhD, who was a major force in the development of molecularly targeted therapies, died March 21 at age 61 from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disea…

The University of Vermont Cancer Center An interdisciplinary team of Vermont researchers and a partner at Yale's Smilow Cancer Center conducted an economic evaluation to establish an overall c…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center researchers have received a $4.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to study bazedoxifene and low-do…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new University of Florida Health intervention gives patients who qualify access to colorectal cancer screening information and tests from the comfo…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A research team led by Andrew Armstrong, MD, MSc, has identified new targets in metastatic non-clear cell renal cell carcinoma that could …

The University of Arizona Cancer Center Outstanding professional dedication to the needs of cancer survivors and their caregivers has earned a lifetime achievement award for Terry Badger, PhD, RN, P…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Cancer researcher Alan Tackett, PhD, has been named deputy director of the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute at the University of Arkansas …

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has been awarded two research grants totaling $6 million from the National Inst…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Jill Biden, EdD, the First Lady of the United States, met with scientists, doctors, and community leaders at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Canc…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida Health Cancer Center researchers have found a potential new way of targeting tumor-infiltrating regulatory T cells that could p…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Pioneering research into how our bodies manufacture the cells that make blood has moved us closer to regrowing tissues and organs. The findings also may le…

Siteman Cancer Center A newly created Washington University professorship honors the contributions of Timothy J. Eberlein, MD, director of Siteman Cancer Center, and his wife, Kimberley A. Ebe…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe COVID-19 disease, 33 days after the onset of symptoms. She was un…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The initial batch of COVID-19 vaccines are now available in the U.S. following incredibly fast development and testing. Not so incredibly, there’s a lot of confus…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Building upon previous research, an international team led by scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine has validated a more inclusi…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received a $1 million pledge from Larry Crain, Sr., to support the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Can…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Biotechnology company Genentech, a member of the Roche Group, has awarded a two-year, $750,000 research grant to Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cance…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Schueck/McCarty family has pledged $1 million to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute to s…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Women in academic medicine are facing the prospect of career setbacks as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Katherine Van Loon, MD, MPH, an…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, together with RWJBarnabas Health, have announced the publication of research that has identified and validated th…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Doctors are increasingly using genetic signatures to diagnose diseases and determine the best care, but using DNA sequencing and other techniques to dete…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine A study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine reveals a novel role of the steroid receptor coactivator 3 (SRC-…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A urine test based on University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center research could have avoided one third of unnecessary prostate cancer biopsies while …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Children’s Mercy has been designated a non-core member of the Pediatric Early Phase Clinical Trials Network, enhancing their ability to deliver the lates…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Daniel E. Spratt, MD, will join the UH Seidman Cancer Center team and hold the Vincent K. Smith chair in radiation oncology, effective May 1. Dr. Spratt joins …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center In a recent message to faculty, Duke Cancer Institute Director Michael B. Kastan, MD, PhD, detailed institutional changes, including new p…

The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network has published “Status of the Clinician Investigator in America: An Essential Health Care Provider Driving Advances in Cancer Care,” a report b…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has signed into law a new bill to ensure immediate access …

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai A research team led by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has built the first cellular model to depict the evolution of acute myeloid leukemi…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new targeted RNA nanoparticle designed to carry a chemotherapy drug along with a t…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new study, researchers led by Aaron Fleischman, PhD, and Maciej Zborowski, PhD, report on a new device they’ve developed to identify and perform different…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham polymer and radionuclide chemists report what they believe may represent a maj…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) cannot be cured by drugs alone, and targeted therapies are only modestly effective, with a high rate of drug resistance…

Michael J. Weber, PhD, has passed away following a battle with pancreatic cancer. Dr. Weber was key to the founding of the University of Virginia Cancer Center in 1984, obtaining a grant from the Nat…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center New research led by scientists from UC San Francisco and the Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona shows that a distinctive pattern of…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new University of Florida Health intervention gives patients who qualify access to colorectal cancer screening information and tests from the comfo…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center When people go to an emergency room after being injured, suspicious images may show up on scans that are unrelated to their injuries but may indicate cancer. A …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Anne Chiang, MD, PhD, has been named deputy chief medical officer and chief integration officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital. Dr. Chiang will partner w…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A commercially available genomic test may help oncologists better determine which patients with recurrent prostate cancer …

Stanford Cancer Institute Homing in on about 20 key genes known to be associated with breast or ovarian cancer is likely to provide patients and their doctors with news they can use, according…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Health System welcome Katie Barnes, MPA, as vice president of the cancer service line, a new collaborative model designe…

Siteman Cancer Center Richard J. Cote, MD, a research member at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors. He has developed tools for analyzing tum…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified how breast cancer c…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The first randomized Phase II clinical trial to report on single and combined neoadjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in stage I-III n…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Daniel Hamstra, MD, PhD, is joining Baylor College of Medicine as professor and chair of the Department of Radiation Onco…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and University of Utah Health welcome Sachin Apte, MD, MS, MBA. He will serve as chief clinical officer of H…

Stanford Cancer Institute The Stanford Cancer Institute announces the launch of its Community Partnership Seed Grant Program. The program fosters community-driven cancer prevention and control…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey George Mason University’s College of Science has announced a $1.33 million collaboration with Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Mason’s Center f…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center A $1.5 million grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency is funding a University of Arizona Health Sciences study designed to understand the oc…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A selenium transport protein produced in the colon helps protect against colitis-associated cancer in an animal model. The findings, by Vanderbilt investigators…

Cancer Center at Illinois Cancer Center at Illinois member, Pengfei Song, PhD, was recently awarded a $2.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense for a collaborative project with Ma…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Elizabeth Plimack, MD, MS, chief of the Division of Genitourinary Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been appointed chair of the scientific…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation have announced a $3.3 million program to address the cancer burden in …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Emil J. Freireich, MD, a trailblazing oncologist who developed groundbreaking therapies for childhood leukemia and came to be recognized as a …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute Deputy Director Steven Patierno, PhD, is principal investigator on a newly awarded $3.5 million NCI Exploratory (P20…

Cancer Center at Illinois Rohit Bhargava, PhD, Cancer Center at Illinois director, was selected as the 2021 recipient of The Optical Society (OSA) Ellis R. Lippincott Award. Co-presented by the OSA,…

Sarah Thayer, MD, PhD, FACS, has been selected as the new director of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport – Feist-Weiller Cancer Center. The cancer center was established by an act of the Louisiana Board o…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center An experienced executive with a passion for serving cancer patients and exceptional strategic leadership skills has rejoined the Roswell Park Comprehen…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University Martin A. Weinstock, MD, will lead a six-year clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a topical medication as a way to prevent skin cancer. …

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have discovered how therapeutics targeting RNA splicing can activate antiviral …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center has announced that Yen-Michael Hsu, MD, PhD, will serve as the new director of the Immunologic Monitoring and Cellular Therapeutics Labora…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Christian Hinrichs, MD, has been named chief of the Section of Cancer Immunotherapy and co-director of the Cancer Immunology and Metabolism Center of Exc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the addition of Joel Helmke, MSHP, FACHE, to its senior leadership team as chief operating officer. Before joining Fox …

AACI is collaborating with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services as part of its Vaccine Consultation Panel (VCP). Through the VCP, AACI has received periodic updates on the development a…

Siteman Cancer Center The Siteman Cancer Network, an affiliation between Siteman Cancer Center and regional medical centers, has added a fourth member, the network’s second in Illinois. Carter…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute have developed an improved approach to treating actinic k…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Michael Green, MD, PhD, noticed that when his patients had cancer that spread to the liver, they fared worse than when cancer spread to other parts o…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed the first comprehensive framework to classify small-cell lun…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center published promising findings on pre…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A drug typically prescribed for rheumatoid arthritis may also be effective in treating a rare but potentially deadly heart complication some cancer patients exp…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Internationally prominent gynecologic oncologist Kenneth H. Kim, MD, recently was selected to direct the Division of Gynecologic Oncology at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. He also se…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Ken H. Young, MD, PhD, is the new chief of the Hematopathology Division and Duke Cancer Institute Blood Cancer Pathology Service. He direc…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Melody Swartz, PhD, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine. She was honored for "pioneering contributions" to th…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Best of ASTRO Program Committee has selected an abstract by Raymond Mailhot Vega, MD, MPH, as a 2020 Be…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center An analysis of a large nationally representative longitudinal study reports that starting tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, before the age of 18 is a …

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers shows that DACH1 mutations are prevalent in Kentucky patients with endometrial cancer, suggesting that DACH1 may be a…

Moffitt Cancer Center David Sallman, MD, is leading a national, multicenter clinical trial investigating a new therapy option for patients with TP53-mutant disease. It builds upon the standard…

University of Colorado Cancer Center Sean Davis, MD, PhD, who currently serves as a senior associate scientist at the National Cancer Institute, will serve as the new associate director for in…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Two researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah have received awards from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Charles R. …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new understanding of intracellular pathways activated as T cells start to mount an immune response offers clues against graft-versus-host disease, …

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Craig Lockhart, MD, has been recruited as the new chief of the Division of Hematology & Oncology at the Medical University of S…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela L. Talton has joined City of Hope's executive leadership team as senior vice president and chief diversity, equity, and inclusion officer. …