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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Examining a Mediterranean diet in relation to prostate cancer progression in men on active surveillance, researchers from The University of Te…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are investigating whether inflammation in the body, a side effect of androgen deprivation therapy, contributes to symptoms such as fatig…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Six UC San Francisco researchers have won a $3 million "Endeavor Award" to build a new research collaborative at the university focused on …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Jamie Wagner, DO, FACOS, FACS, and Shane Stecklein, MD, PhD, have been appointed to the Breast Oncology Local Disease Task Force of the National Cancer Institu…

University of Virginia Cancer Center The colons of African Americans and people of European descent age differently, new research reveals. Scientists at the University of Virginia found that o…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center If there’s one piece of advice Chengguo "Chris" Xing, PhD, would give you, it’s to "stress less." Dr. Xing, a UF Health Cancer Center member, sees st…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In what is believed to be the most comprehensive molecular characterization to date of the most common type of head and ne…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Older minority cancer patients with poor social determinants of health are significa…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has announced the appointment of Mindy Rogers as director of the Kentucky Cancer Program – East, which is housed within the cancer center. …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center announces the recruitment of Anna Liza Rodriguez, MSN, MHA, RN, OCN®, NEA-BC, as chief nursing officer and vice president of nurs…

Stanford Cancer Institute Alyce Adams, PhD, has been named the inaugural associate director of Stanford Cancer Institute’s Office of Cancer Health Equity and Community Engagement. Her research…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have been awarded a five-year, $3.3 million grant by the Na…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Bernard Fuemmeler, PhD, and his team have conducted the first-ever systematic review of area-level data reported in the United States between 2006 and 20…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Machine learning-based approaches to risk assessment can be highly effective in predicting various types of cardiac dysfunction among cancer survivors who have…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Thomas A. D’Amico, MD, chief of General Thoracic Surgery and director of the Thoracic Oncology program at Duke Cancer Institute, has been …

Siteman Cancer Center Brian C. Baumann, MD, a radiation oncologist, has been chosen to serve on four national cancer advisory committees: National Association for Proton Therapy Physician Advisory C…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Rates of death from breast cancer are 40 percent higher in Black women than in white women. Research shows the tumors in Black women are more aggressiv…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Mikkael Sekeres, MD, MS, has joined the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center team as the new physician liaison in hematology and chi…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Research conducted by a team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center sheds light on the carcinogenic effect of exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiati…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Over the past 15 years, the cancer center’s Community Advisory Board (CAB) has become one of UCSF’s most instrumental community outreach gr…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Proteogenomic analysis may offer new insight into matching cancer patients with an effective therapy for their particular…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A microbe found in the colon and commonly associated with the development of colitis and colon cancer also may play a role…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Rachel Adams Greenup, MD, MPH, FACS, has been appointed as associate professor of surgery (oncology) and section chief of breast surgery for the Dep…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center recently announced the appointment of Jeremy Rich, MD, MHS, MBA, as deputy director of research. Dr. Rich will also serve as the Pittsburg…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Jing Chen, PhD, an international leader in cancer metabolism, was recently named the first Janet Davison Rowley Professor in Cancer Res…

AACI congratulated President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on their inauguration and pledged its strong support of their efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic and promote cancer research,…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Tobacco Treatment Specialist training program has been accredited by the Council for Tobacco Treatment Training Programs, joinin…

Anil K. Rustgi, MD, has joined AACI's Board of Directors. Dr. Rustgi was named director of Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University Irving Medical Center in 2019. He is also Ir…

Joseph V. Simone, MD, a pioneering clinical investigator and institutional leader in pediatric oncology, died January 21 at the age of 85, according to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO…

Renowned cancer researcher Ze’ev Ronai, PhD, has been named director of Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute's National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Designated Cancer Center. Dr. Ronai's rese…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Income level, employment, housing location, medical insurance, education, tobacco and alcohol use, diet and obesity, access to medical care. These ar…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer patients, especially newly diagnosed and African-American patients, are significantly at risk for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality, ac…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago Department of Medicine has announced that Sonali Smith, MD, an expert in lymphoma therapeutics, has bee…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center By taking a lesson from prostate cancer, researchers now have a promising lead on a treatment for COVID-19. Two proteins, ACE2 and TMPRSS2, help the …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Stewart Livsie, manager of maintenance and construction at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, was recently named by the International Facility Mana…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Patrick Moore, MD, MPH, distinguished professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was a part of the small co…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new University of Kentucky study provides direct evidence for a testing strategy that could be used to support a shortened period of quarantine for university student…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing shows correlations between use of electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), including e-c…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Y. Lynn Wang, MD, PhD, FACP, recently published a comprehensive review of molecular biomarkers in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The review discusse…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In two new papers, UC San Francisco and Princeton University scientists present complementary strategies for finding medicines that kill ca…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Stephanie Halene, MD, PhD, has been appointed chief of hematology at Yale Cancer Center, Smilow Cancer Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine Depa…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University The Cancer Center at Brown University has announced the funding of eight pilot projects, which were selected from 24 proposals by a panel of expert …

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Jedd Wolchok, MD, PhD, director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, is the recipient of the European So…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A Phase I/II study led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found IMGN632, a novel CD123-targeting antibody-d…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center New research findings from Paula Bos, PhD, identified a type of immune cells that acts as a major driver of breast cancer growth by preventing the accumu…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center In 2010, Edward Patz, Jr., MD, and colleagues first identified a unique auto-antibody in some early-stage lung cancer patients, responsibl…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A new paper demonstrates an approach to combining individual tumor genomics and mathematics to personalize the dose of radiation therapy for lung cancer patients…

Stanford Cancer Institute David Miklos, MD, PhD, has been appointed the new division chief of Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Stanford University School of Medicine’s Department of Medicin…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Itzhak Nir, MD, has been appointed the first Elsie P. Barry/Cowboys for Cancer Research Endowed Professor in Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary and Oncol…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A new approach to cancer therapy shows potential to transform the commonly used chemotherapy drug gemcitabine into a drug that kills cancer cells in a specialized way, acti…

WVU Cancer Institute In a new systematic review, Nicole Stout, DPT, FAPTA, and her colleagues identified rehabilitation recommendations included in cancer-treatment guidelines from around the …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A large retrospective study of patients who received a form of immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer revealed that …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has named Welela Tereffe, MD, as chief medical executive. She assumed his new position and j…

Cancer Center at Illinois Cancer Center at Illinois member, Michael Oelze, PhD, and his collaborative breast cancer and ultrasound imaging research with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in To…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Men with cancer and COVID-19 may be at significantly higher risk for severe symptoms and even death as compared to females fighting both, a University of…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine In a new study by Yale Cancer Center, researchers found substantial regional variation in use of genomic testing for prostate cancer, raising questi…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University In the first-ever clinical trial of fourth-generation electronic cigarettes, researchers found that adults who switched to e-cigarettes had lower le…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers in the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science have received a $1 million grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to develop "deep tiss…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Joshua Brody, MD, and Mount Sinai colleagues have solved one of the enduring mysteries of cancer immunotherapy: Why does it completely eliminate tumor…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A group of researchers led by Maximillian Merz, MD, conducted the first prospective clinical trial investigating spatial heterogeneity in patients with…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Igor Puzanov, MD, MSCI, FACP, Andrew Hyland, PhD, and Maciej Goniewicz, PhD, PharmD, have all recently been recogn…

Adekunle “Kunle” Odunsi, MD, PhD, FRCOG, FACOG, an expert in immunotherapy and vaccine therapy for cancer, has been appointed director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Cente…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Investigators at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers New Jersey Medical School recently identified a new method for safe and effective del…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists have found a new combination therapy that suppresses the MAPK pathway by holding cancer-driving pro…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Two University of California medical centers, UC San Francisco and UCLA, and their nuclear medicine teams have obtained approval from the U…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Hematologic oncologist C. Ola Landgren, MD, PhD, is the inaugural leader of a new research program, experimental therapeutics, at Syl…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $4.35 million grant for the development of interactive visual tools that will allow researchers to extract cancer ph…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Donald McDonnell, PhD, has been elected as a fellow to the National Academy of Inventors. Using a combination of genetics, biochemistry, and che…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Few treatment options exist for patients diagnosed with brain metastases because the mechanisms that allow cancer to spread to the brain remain unclear. …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Current treatments for liver cancer include a targeted radiation therapy delivered with the help of radiation-emitting glass beads. New research…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer John P. Chute, MD, has been selected to direct the Division of Hematology and Cellular Therapy in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Cancer. The physician-scientist…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine E. Ramsay Camp, MD, FACS, has joined the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine as profes…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered a new diagnostic marker that distinguishes a fast-growing type of the pediatric …

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Michel Sadelain, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Cell Engineering at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, was named a recipient of the 49th Fondation AR…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute OSUCCC - James has announced the passing of Albert de la Chapelle, PhD, MD, a distin…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A raft of studies by health outcomes researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center illustrate the difficult choices cancer patients are forced to make reg…

Stanford Cancer Institute Heather Wakelee, MD, has been appointed deputy director of the Stanford Cancer Institute, effective January 2021. She has also been named as the new division chief of…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Adam Marcus, PhD, has been appointed interim executive director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Dr. Marcus assumes the role from W…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have been using the strength of large numbers to analyze the genetic variants of different ethnic groups in …

University of Colorado Cancer Center Cathy Bradley, PhD, deputy director of the University of Colorado Cancer Center, is the lead author of a paper that suggests that it is time to add routine…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and So…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Edith P. Mitchell, MD, FACP, FCPP, FRCP, associate director for diversity affairs at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health, has been rec…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey A $25 million anonymous philanthropic gift to Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey will provide groundbreaking support for the Cancer Immunology and Me…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center received an "exceptional" score, the highest achievable rating, and its largest grant to date when it was recently renewed as a National C…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Utah scientists have discovered new functions of a key cellular machine that regulates gene packaging and is mutated in 20 percent of human …

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Enhancers are regulatory elements that play an important role in cancer. Researchers from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey identified a novel enhan…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Harikrishna Nakshatri, PhD has received a $1.3 million grant from the Department of Defense – Congressionally Directed Medi…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Health news website STAT has honored Natasha Sheybani, PhD, as one of the next generation of scientific superstars for her work in focused ultrasound, cancer imm…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University In the past, polyploidal giant cancer cells (PGCCs) have been largely ignored because studies had found that they do not undergo mitosis. However, r…

Stanford Cancer Institute The Western Region Society of Nuclear Medicine has presented Andrei Iagaru, MD, with its Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award. The award was name…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center For every two deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S., a third American dies as a result of the pandemic, according to study findings from Steven Woolf…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center New research funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) aims to boost understanding of how the immune system responds to COVID-19, from the start of infecti…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by UK Markey Cancer Center and UK Department of Pharmacology and Nutritional Sciences demonstrates the potential benefit of using an anti-leukemic drug nilo…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Led by Subhamoy Dasgupta, PhD, researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have determined that prostate tumors change their metabolism t…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Climate change will bring an acute toll worldwide, with rising temperatures, wildfires, and poor air quality, accompanied by higher rates o…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey researcher ‘Jessie’ Yanxiang Guo, PhD, has received a $1.7 million award from the National Institutes of Health to…

Siteman Cancer Center David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, vice chair for research affairs in the Department of Neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and a Siteman Cancer Center r…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A research team at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has outlined their discovery of a secret space between the tumor cells of microscopic clusters where the…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine led a six-year study with the National Cancer Institute to analyze the tumor ge…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory cells that are long-lived, highly active "super immune cell…