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UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A new web tool spells out for the first time the exposures that more than 6.5 million working women in California face that could increase …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers, with patients surviving on average less than a year once the disease has spread. The chemothe…

GW Cancer Center The extracellular regulated kinase (ERK) protein is an important mechanism behind platinum-resistance in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer, according to a study from a researc…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A clinical trial testing a new pancreatic cancer drug had promising initial results, say University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center researchers. Inve…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center BlueSphere Bio, an immunotherapy startup formed by UPMC Enterprises, has announced that David Apelian, MD, PhD, MBA, has been named chief executive officer. He joins…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Susan Mazanec, PhD, RN, is leading a study recently granted $2.14 million from the National Cancer Institute to explore new approaches to training and preparin…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University radiation oncologist Dennis E. Hallahan, MD, of Siteman Cancer Center, has been named a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Dr. Halla…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Boehringer Ingelheim and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a new multi-year partnership to conduct collaborativ…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a new signal that cancers may use to evade detection and destruction by the immune system. T…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A discovery by scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah could lead researchers to a more effective way to treat pan…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A key difference between the few pancreatic cancer patients who survive longterm and the many whose disease overcomes all treatments is the ba…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Stephanie Halene, MD, PhD, has been named interim chief of hematology at Yale Cancer Center and Smilow Cancer Hospital. An associate professor of me…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutch researchers, led by Andrew Hsieh, MD, have discovered that when aggressive prostate tumors turn off the androgen receptor—their source for growth-fueli…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Joseph Maher, MD, has been named director of the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) Division of Medical Genetics and Precision Medicine. …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has been selected as a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Community Oncology Research Pro…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Christina Chapman, MD, studies ways to improve equity in health care systems and the medical workforce to better meet the needs of the population. Sh…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Cancer researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have identified a key to controlling the growth and progression of prostate cancer. The…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new large population-based study from Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health shows that novel oral androgen signaling inhibitor thera…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The immune system fights off infections but, in patients with certain medical conditions, it can also become overactive and damage vital organs. Now,…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Without vigilant cell repair, cancer would run rampant. Now scientists at the University of Pittsburgh have gotten a glimpse of how one protein in particular keeps D…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A scientist at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has developed the first dedicated tool for analyzing a DNA-mapping technology known as ATAC-seq…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Oncologists at VCU Massey Cancer Center were invited to co-author an editorial providing expert commentary on findings from a large study conducted by Ge…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University physicians at Siteman Cancer Center have received a six-year, $7.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to play a leading role in …

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has named 54 academic inventors to its Spring 2019 class of senior members, including Stan Gerson, MD, director of Case Compre…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Saul Priceman, PhD, and his research team have received a $9.28 million award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to support a chim…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have received more than a dozen recent grant awards totaling more than $15.4 million. These awards…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins researchers have studied the perspectives of both clinicians and older adults on how to communicate about st…

GW Cancer Center Sun safety practices for attendees at skin cancer screening events differ from the general public, according to findings published by researchers from the George Washington Un…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center researchers shows a higher mortality rate for prostate cancer among men from Appalachian Kentucky compared to…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University A research team, led by a Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality expert, reports it has identifi…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Brigid L. M. Hogan, PhD, chair emeritus of Duke’s Department of Cell Biology, has received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Federation of…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama professor Wendy Demark-Wahnefried, PhD, RD, has been selected to receive the 2018 Mary P. Huddleson…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham At first glance, Kevin, Kiala, and Keaira Perkins may seem like typical 17-, 14-, and 11-year-old children. But al…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Larry Kwak, MD, PhD, has been appointed the deputy director of City of Hope’s Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation Institute, and Tan…

Stanford Cancer Institute Statisticians refer to the technique of incorporating a variety of continuously generated information—who is on the bench, who was injured in the first half of the ma…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A team of researchers from UCLA and the University of Toronto have identified a new biomarker found in urine that can help detect aggressive prostate c…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center After thyroid cancer surgery, many patients should be in the position of deciding with their doctors whether to pursue treatment with radioactive iod…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah discovered in laboratory studies that an experimental drug called selinex…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A group of researchers led by Daniel George, MD, of Duke Cancer Institute, were recently awarded $1,609,691 from the Department of Defense…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, a new study has found, with nearly a four-fold rise o…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A research team, led by investigators from Georgetown University Medical Center and Fudan University in China, has devised a promising non-invas…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The biliary microbiome was altered in patients who received neoadjuvant therapy prior to undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer, according to new resea…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Norman Wolmark, MD, FACS, has been recruited to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine where he will serve as director of National Cancer Institute cooperat…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey More than $2 million in grants awarded to Rutgers Cancer Institute researcher Daniel Herranz Benito, PhD, will support examination of potential treatment…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Yale Cancer Center’s Frederick Wilson, MD, PhD, has won a 2019 Clinical Scientist Development Award from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Dr. Wilson’s…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey RWJBarnabas Health and Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, in partnership with New Brunswick Development Corporation have announced the development o…

Moffitt Cancer Center Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR T) therapy has shown pronounced activity in certain cancers, and two CAR T therapies, Kymriah® and Yescarta®, have received approval…

GW Cancer Center A research team led by Yanfen Hu, PhD, a member of the GW Cancer Center, is studying the role of the tumor suppressor BRCA1 in the homologous recombination pathway of DNA doub…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center scientists have discovered that the loss of a protein called DBC1 in breast cancer cells leads to the dysregulation of normal an…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Inflammation plays an instrumental role in tumor development, affecting the tumor microenvironment, mediating immune responses, and influencing tumor gro…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A personalized prognosis for patients diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer was the goal of a new study by Katherine Varley, PhD, a r…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center A novel gene therapy clinical trial at University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is showing promising results. A $2.7…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Steven Dubinett, MD, a researcher in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been honored by the American Lung Association for his work on the treat…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Results from a new study led by Cleveland Clinic show that an artificial intelligence framework can provide individualized radiation dose delivery based on data …

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a hyperactive cell signal …

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has been awarded a five-year, $9.7 million Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant fr…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center One of Roswell Park’s most distinguished researchers has been recognized again for his contributions to advance the fight against ovarian cancer. Ovarian Canc…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered how an aggressive form of prostate cancer called double-negat…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Drug discovery, design and development expert Saïd M. Sebti, PhD, has been named associate director for basic research and the Lacy Family Chair in Cance…

Stanford Cancer Institute For decades, breast cancer was believed to be a disease that was purely genetic in origin. However, recent science is upending this notion by showing that the surroun…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The statistics are grim: for patients with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML), more than 60 percent will relapse within two years of a bone marrow transplant.…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Using advanced technology, scientists at Chan Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub, Mayo Clinic, and UC San Francisco, have discovered an autoimmune dise…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute The Wistar Institute announces the appointment of Rahul Shinde, DVM, PhD, as the first Caspar Wistar Fellow. Dr. Shinde’s research…

Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University has named Lawrence Boise, PhD, as its new associate director for education and training. Dr. Boise is …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC, supported by a $19.2 million National Institutes of Health grant, will lead the largest clinical trial of its k…

The Provincial Health Services Authority of British Columbia has selected Kim Nguyen Chi, MD, as vice president and chief medical officer of BC Cancer. An internationally recognized expert in prostat…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered a cellular pathway tied to cancer that may be beneficial in reducing s…

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, part of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, has received designation from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Sylvester joins a highl…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center For oncologists in the beginning of their career, scientific conferences present an opportunity for them to network, share their research, gain new k…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The OSUCCC – James has announced formation of the Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Onc…

American Society for Radiation Oncology The National Cancer Institute Radiation Research Program has released a draft update of its guidelines for the use of proton radiation therapy in cooper…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has announced that a team of Indiana University School of Medicine researchers is joining a …

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Manmeet Ahluwalia, MD, director of the Brain Metastasis Research Program at Cleveland Clinic, is helping lead a clinical trial of a new glioblastoma vaccine. Sur…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Alan Tackett, PhD, a cancer researcher at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), has received a five-year, $1.75 million grant fr…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned a 2019 HAP Achievement Award from The Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania (HAP). The award recognize…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have identified key biological pathways that regulate the spread of tumor cells to vital organs. These findings ma…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Pre-surgical treatment with nivolumab plus ipilimumab resulted in an overall major pathologic response rate of 33 percent of treated patients …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned CEO Cancer Gold Standard re-accreditation for satisfying the latest comprehensive requirements of the Gold Standard. Founded …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A new program led by The University of Kansas Cancer Center seeks to improve community oncology providers’ knowledge of genetic testing in breast cancer …

Stanford Cancer Institute In 2012, Teresa Purzner, MD, PhD, and her husband, Jamie Purzner, MD, both neurosurgery residents, traded their scrubs for lab coats in an effort to understand, at th…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A new study outlines findings from the largest-ever prospective genomic analysis of advanced prostate cancer tumors. Using comprehensive gen…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A large, randomized immunotherapy clinical trial continues to show improved overall survival and progression-free survival in advanced lung cancer pa…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A combination of nanatinostat (VRx-3996), an oral histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitor, and the oral antiviral valganciclovir appears to be well…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Michelle Hudspeth, MD, is the new medical director of the Blood & Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at Hollings Cancer Center at …

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The National Cancer Institute has awarded a $2.2 million, five-year grant to help OS…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Shannon J. McCall, MD, has received a grant of over $3.4 million from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support the Duke BioRepositor…

Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University The standard of care for women with stage III/IVA endometrial cancer following surgery has been chemotherapy and radiatio…

Stanford Cancer Institute Up to 80 percent of metastatic colorectal cancers are likely to have spread to distant locations in the body before the original tumor has exceeded the size of a popp…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from Indiana University and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center have been awarded a $4.1 million National Ca…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A combination of elevated symptoms of depression along with modifications in a gene responsible for dopamine activity, important to the brain’s …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine have discovered a new way to identify potentially high-risk pediatric neuroblas…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Using a new approach that combines data from human tumors grown in mice with data from The Cancer Genome Atlas, a team led by University of Michigan …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke University Hospital’s NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Program recently earned a three-year accreditation rating, with commendatio…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A common genetic deficiency summons macrophages that nurture glioblastoma instead of attacking it, researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center re…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Forty years ago, a team of scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center published the first unequivocal report in humans that immune cells called T cells …

University of Virginia Cancer Center An unhealthy, inflamed gut causes breast cancer to become more invasive and spread more quickly to other parts of the body, new research from the UVA Cance…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center On a questionnaire aimed at assessing how well community oncologists understand "molecular profiling" results from tumor specimens, 69 percent o…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center found that identifying a metastatic colorectal cancer patient’s Consensus Molecular Subtype (CM…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences research team led by Vladimir Zharov, PhD, DSc, has demonstrated the ability to detect and kill circ…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new colorectal cancer vaccine showed positive results in the Phase I clinical trial to demonstrate that the approach is safe. The patients tre…