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The University of Arizona Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences have developed—and are continuing to improve—a handheld device to bring the next generation of …

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Researchers led by James Bibb, PhD, suggest using a broader lens of post-translational modification analysis to id…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Blocking a newly identified "immune memory checkpoint" in immune cells could improve immunotherapy and help prevent cancers from recurring, according to new findings…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Christopher Hoimes, DO, PhD, has joined the genitourinary (GU) oncology program at Duke Cancer Institute where he will serve as clinical i…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by researchers at the University of Kentucky identifies a novel function of the enzyme spermine synthase (SMS) to facilitate colorectal cancer growth. SMS p…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A study led by Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, and his colleagues, found that many new colorectal cancer diagnoses are occurring in countie…

Cancer Center at Illinois Current prostate cancer diagnostics, such as the serum test and physical exam, work well for detection, but don’t accurately identify the stage or grade of the diseas…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The intestinal microbiome might offer a window into whether cancer patients can bene…

Stanford Cancer Institute An elite population of cancer cells marshal at the leading edges of a growing skin tumor to guide its metastasis and help it evade the body’s immune system, researche…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Ronald S. Boris, MD, and cancer physician colleagues at Indiana University are working with scientists at Purdue University…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CAR T immunotherapy has been used to treat Hodgkin lymphoma with remarkable success for the first time, …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators report they have uncovered a new mechanism by which invasive breast cance…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center With advances in genome sequencing, cancer treatments have increasingly sought to leverage the idea of "synthetic lethality," exploiting cancer-specific genet…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Chengyu Liang, MD, PhD, has been appointed as professor in the Molecular & Cellular Oncogenesis Program of The Wistar Institut…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, has been appointed director of the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity for Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Two UPMC Hillman Cancer Center radiation oncologists have been designated Fellows of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (FASTRO), the world’s largest society for …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Two new studies led by Renuka Iyer, MD, section chief for gastrointestinal oncology at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, highlight possible new…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Chuck Wiggins, PhD, director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry, was recently honored by the North American Association of Central Cancer Registrie…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A new study sheds light on proteins in particles called extracellular vesicles, which are released by tumor cells into the bloodstream and promote the spread of cancer. The…

University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center In a new study, investigators have determined that a chemotherapy drug called Azacytidine can cause certain ca…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine, UC San Francisco, and Northwestern Univers…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by a team of investigators from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center indicates the expansion of Medicaid led to earlier detection of cancer in indi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD, has been named associate director for precision oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center. His lab has made fundamental insights i…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Ge Jin, PhD, and Bingcheng Wang, PhD, were recently awarded a five-year, $3.7 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to explore why those livin…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The Radiation Oncology Residency Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (A…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Experts at City of Hope and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) are using one of the world’s most comprehensive genomic analysis tools…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center A $5 million gift from the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Charitable Foundation will create and support the Rosalie and Harold Rae Brown Center for Cancer …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Sanofi have announced a five-year strategic collaboration to accelerate the development …

University of Illinois Cancer Center Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker has enacted a health care package that includes a proposal requiring the state’s Medicaid program to cover routine care co…

Cancer Center at Illinois In a new study, researchers report that they have dramatically broadened the potential targets of CAR T therapy — their engineered T-cells attack a variety of solid-t…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Debra Friedman, MD, MS, is expanding her leadership role in improving cancer outcomes both within and beyond the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center catchment area.…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The American Society of Clinical Oncology honored Hyman B. Muss, MD, FASCO, with the 2020 Allen S. Lichter Vis…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute and Cheyney University of Pennsylvania have launched a strategic collaboration uniting the nation’s first ind…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center The Tauber Bioinformatics Research Center at University of Haifa and Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center have launched a collaboration that will c…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute IntraOp Medical Corporation has announced delivery of its pre-clinical high dose rat…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Faculty members at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the VCU C. Kenneth and Dianne Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research are expanding the cur…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers showed that patients who already used opioids, sedatives, or antidepressants prior to colorectal surgery experience s…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Black patients with esophageal cancer are at a higher risk of death compared to white patients. Although many reasons have been suggested, a new…

Moffitt Cancer Center Issam El Naqa, PhD, joins Moffitt Cancer Center as the founding chair of its new Machine Learning Department. The new department is focused on accelerating scientific dis…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The radiation oncology residency program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has received accreditation from the Accreditation Council fo…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been elected radiation oncology co-chair of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network Prostate Cancer Ta…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Dana Dolinoy, PhD, received a $6.9 million R35 award from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. The award is granted from the NIEH…

Moffitt Cancer Center Dave Summitt, chief information security officer at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been selected for the Federal Communication Commission’s newly formed federal advisory committee,…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Renal cancer specialist Robert A. Figlin, MD, has been named deputy director of Cedars-Sinai Cancer. The Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology-Oncology will oversee a…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded an $11 million grant renewal from the National institutes of Health (NIH) for the Yale Specialized Progr…

Edward Chu, MD, MMS, has been named director of the National Cancer Institute-designated Albert Einstein Cancer Center, effective October 1, 2020. Dr. Chu currently serves as the deputy director of U…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has renewed the designation of Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah as a Comprehens…

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has announced the appointment of MUSC College of Medicine Dean Raymond N. DuBois, MD, PhD, to the additional role of director for the MUSC Hollings Can…

Stanford Cancer Institute Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, professor and chair of radiology at Stanford School of Medicine and an internationally recognized pioneer in molecular imaging, died July…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center An international team of researchers has developed a non-invasive blood test that can detect whether an individual has one of five common types of cancers, fo…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Amy Overby has been named director of the clinical trials office at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University. Joining Winship from the Universi…

Joann Sweasy, PhD, has been named director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center, and the inaugural holder of the Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge Endowed Chair for the director of the cancer center.…

Princess Margaret Cancer Centre welcomes back renowned multiple myeloma clinician and researcher, Keith Stewart, MB, ChB, from the Mayo Clinic. Effective June 1, Dr. Stewart is the vice president, ca…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Scientists have found that diet can cause microbes in the gut to trigger changes in the host’s response to a chemotherapy drug. Common components of our da…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The findings of the first large observational study of nearly 1,000 patients with cancer who contracted COVID-19—gleaned from over 100 institutions participating …

WVU Cancer Institute COVID-19 tests are in short supply. The companies that make the necessary chemicals—called reagents—can’t keep up with demand. But researchers at West Virginia University …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute KIYATEC, Inc., has announced that the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute has joined the growing roster of institutions participating in…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health An international panel led by researchers and thought leaders at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health and the Department of Urolo…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Someday, hundreds of millions of vaccinations against the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could show up in people’s mailboxes and be applied as simply a…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center researcher Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD, has been appointed to serve as an associate editor for the journal Health Psychology. Read More

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at City of Hope, working in collaboration with researchers at Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and other colleagues across t…

Stanford Cancer Institute By making two different alterations to a single messenger protein, a research team led by Jennifer Cochran, PhD, has induced the body’s biochemical control system to …

Siteman Cancer Center A blood test developed by Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center could help determine next steps for patients whose prostate cancer has spread despite…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Cen…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Scott Soderling, PhD, has founded a Duke spinout company, CasTag BioSciences, based on a technology developed in his lab that marks protei…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Daratumumab, a treatment for multiple myeloma, only increases patient survival by a few months, with cancer cells quickly developing resistance to the drug, New …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Cancer treatment has advanced with the advent of immunotherapies that, in some cancers, can overcome tumors’ ability to evade the immune sy…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Physician-scientists at the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center have been working not only to improve the results of ch…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Efforts in recent years to reduce four procedures deemed low value for early stage breast cancer patients have met with only mixed success, according…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A nanochip created by researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center and the University of Kansas has the potential to detect and track breast can…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center Using induced pluripotent stem cells and deleting a key gene, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have created natural killer…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers have shown that women related to a patient with a breast cancer caused by a hereditary mutation—but who don’t have the mutation themselves—have no higher …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center researchers from the Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Andrew E. Aplin, PhD, has been recognized with the Melanoma Research Foundation Humanitarian Award. His research focuses on better understanding the m…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center People with inoperable anal cancer treated with carboplatin-paclitaxel had fewer complications and lived longer than those who received another chemotherapy tha…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have presented the first outcomes evaluation of patients participating in an adult oncology hospita…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Disease hits Black and brown people harder. Same for Indigenous people, individuals in rural areas, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and others who are medically …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center researchers were awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate and model cytokine signaling related…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Rebecca Martin, PhD, and two of her students have developed an extremely rapid experimental molecular diagnostic assay that decreases the amount of time …

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Treatment with the targeted therapy osimertinib following surgery improves disease-free survival in patients with early-stage, non-small cell lung c…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new UK Markey Cancer Center study finds that many Kentucky patients with colon cancer are not receiving the recommended standard of care therapy for their disease. Av…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center New preclinical work by a team of researchers from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program suggests that the…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers analyzed gene-expression patterns in the most aggressive prostate cancer grade group and found tha…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center For years, evidence has shown the negative effects of smoking cigarettes on cancer patients’ health outcomes, but sometimes quitting is easier said t…

University of Virginia Cancer Center An innovative use of focused ultrasound is showing promise against glioblastoma and could prove useful against other difficult-to-treat cancers. The techni…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A research team led by cancer researcher Justin Leung, PhD, at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences has uncovered the role of the prote…

Moffitt Cancer Center Eric B. Haura, MD, and Nikhil Khushalani, MD, have been named to new leadership positions in Moffitt Cancer Center’s clinical science research division. Read More

Moffitt Cancer Center Susan Vadaparampil, PhD, MPH, associate center director of community outreach, engagement and equity at Moffitt Cancer Center, has been selected to serve on the National Cancer…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer The team tasked with designing the new Samuel Oschin Cancer Center at Cedars-Sinai had one overarching goal: creating a safe, soothing patient environment. The new facility…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Health care leader Glenn D. Steele Jr., MD, PhD, has been elected the new board chair of City of Hope, effective June 1. He joined the board in January…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah About 15 percent of lung cancers are classified as small cell lung cancer. Recent studies have indicated that four major subtypes of small c…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute William Russel "Rusty" Robinson, MD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Center and Research Institute as a professor in gy…

WVU Cancer Institute Using a $3.62 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the West Virginia University Cancer Institute will continue working with clinics across th…

UK Markey Cancer Center The University of Kentucky and ArtemiLife Inc., will collaborate on a clinical study using the extract of a medicinal plant grown in Kentucky to test for anti-cancer ac…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new center at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer…

Cancer Center at Illinois Benita S. Katzenellenbogen, PhD, has been appointed senior advisor to the director of the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL), Rohit Bhargava, PhD. She will counsel stra…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center To help identify people who have inherited genes for genitourinary cancers, UCLA Health and the Department of Urology at UCLA have created a new telehe…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center For many medical researchers, studying and combating disease means going to work in exam rooms, offices and laboratories. For Megha Ramaswamy, PhD, MPH, …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The Fox Chase-Temple University Hospital Bone Marrow Transplant Program will soon become the newest department at Fox Chase. It will be chaired by Henry …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Royal Philips are collaborating to provide oncologists with evidence-based therapy and c…