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…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center In a collaboration between The University of Kansas Cancer Center, California State University San Marcos, and Brown University, scientists conducted a s…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Carolyn Y. Fang, PhD, professor and co-leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been promoted to the role of a…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN, was awarded the 2020 Ada Sue Hinshaw Award from the Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research. F…

University of Virginia Cancer Center UVA Cancer Center researcher Sanchita Bhatnagar, PhD, and her team have found that the breast cancer oncogene TRIM37 not only causes the cancer to spread b…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Daniel Sullivan, MD, a former member of Duke Cancer Institute, was recently honored by the Prevent Cancer Foundation with the James L. Mulshine …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Brian Rini, MD, is leading a study launched by the National Cancer Institute that will closely monitor cancer patients who acquire COVID-19 with the goal of pro…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center John Turchi, PhD, an Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher, has been awarded a fi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A novel clinical trial platform that aims to accelerate treatment discoveries for people battling pancreatic cancer is now enrolling patients at 15 s…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that patients with a particular type of human leukocyte antigen, a protein scaff…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A team from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has detailed striking findings on the effectiveness of a previously untried combination of old and…

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center In a recent study, Brent Rose, MD, and colleagues tested the hypothesis that African American men undergoing active surveillance are at a significantly higher…

UK Markey Cancer Center UK Markey Cancer Center has appointed Lovoria Williams, PhD, as assistant director for cancer health equity, a newly created position within the Markey leadership struc…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Erica Golemis, PhD, deputy chief science officer and co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics research program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, was recently appointe…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center A new study led by researchers at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and the University of Pittsburgh shows for the first time how certain drugs used to treat HIV and cancer…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center With the help of a three-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a team of Fred Hutch public health researchers will lead a collaboration to …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Bridget Fahy, MD, has been appointed to the position of Victor and Ruby Hansen Surface Endowed Professor of Complex Surgical Oncology. Dr. Fahy i…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Nina Bhardwaj, MD, PhD, and Philip Friedlander, MD, PhD, at The Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, working with co…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and other institutions have applied po…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Through large-scale profiling of protein changes in response to drug treatments in cancer cell lines, researchers at The University of Texas M…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Age may cause identical cancer cells with the same mutations to behave differently. In animal and laboratory models of mel…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Monica Cfarku, RN, MSN, BMTCN, CCM, NE-BC, has been named assistant vice president and chief of Oncology Nursing Services, Duke Cancer Ins…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A new initiative aims to speed the process of bringing lifesaving medical discoveries made in University of Utah laboratories to new drugs a…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center Cleveland Clinic data scientist Daniel Rotroff, PhD, and anesthesiologist Joseph Foss, MD, have received a nearly $5 million grant from the National Institute of…

Siteman Cancer Center Barry A. Siegel, MD, a professor of radiology and of medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis who sees patients at Siteman Cancer Center, has received …

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is one of just 21 hospital systems in the country and the only system in Pennsylvania selected to work with the Am…

Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center Raymond Bergan, MD, has accepted the position of deputy director of the Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center. He began his duties on November 9. Dr. Be…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center has merged two of its existing research programs into the newly established Cancer Biology program. The former Cancer Cell Signa…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Obsidian Therapeutics, Inc., have announced a multi-year strategic collaboration designe…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University To improve maternal and children’s health care in the District of Columbia and surrounding communities, the A. James &…

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…

Stanford Cancer Institute A new modeling tool may be able to help doctors assess which treatments are best for individual patients with colorectal cancer. The artificial intelligence program a…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Karen Winkfield, MD, PhD, associate director for Community Outreach and Engagement and director of the Office of Cancer Health Equity at Wake Forest Baptist Com…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a new medical records analysis of racial disparities in end-of-life care, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine and thr…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study led by VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Jeanine Guidry, PhD, compared how HPV vaccination was portrayed on Pinterest before and after the …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health A new study points to a need for oncologists to ask their patients about sexual health after chemotherapy, radiation, and other cancer treatment…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Many of the most aggressive and hard-to-treat cancers are highly effective at blocking T cells from reaching and responding to tumors. But research led…

Moffitt Cancer Center Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are taking a closer look at the genomic features of prostate cancer tumors among men of different races in hopes of better understanding…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Colon cancer may be treated or even prevented by altering microorganisms in the intestine and by combating inflammation with a clinical treatment pre…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University The inflammasome—a protein signaling network that is activated to rid the body of virus or bacteria-infected cells—may pla…

Stanford Cancer Institute Dean W. Felsher, MD, PhD, is a 2020 recipient of the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Outstanding Investigator Award. His lab will target the MYC oncogene pathway to…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Press Ganey has recognized Fox Chase Cancer Center with its 2020 Guardian of Excellence Award for providing outstanding clinical performance for patients in it…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Ambitious efforts at the UVA Cancer Center to improve care delivered to patients with cancer that has spread to the brain have yielded important insights a…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women and the most costly to treat. Now, Jefferson researchers have shown that although th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Opioids for pain relief are often a necessity for cancer patients, but opioid use comes with its own set of risks. Two papers published by researchers at…