Cancer Center at Illinois Timothy M. Fan, DVM, PhD, professor of veterinary oncology, has been appointed as program leader of the Cancer Center at Illinois research program in Cancer Discovery…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the appointment of new leaders in three key areas of clinical care: Mary Ann Long, RN, MS, returns a…

Stanford Cancer Institute Roeland Nusse, PhD, professor of developmental biology, is the recipient of Canada’s Gairdner International Award for his work on understanding the role of the Wnt signalin…

Hollings Cancer Center, Medical University of South Carolina Shikhar Mehrotra, PhD, and Sophie Paczesny, MD, PhD, have been named co-leaders of the Cancer Immunology program at Hollings Cancer…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers in the Ludwig Center at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report they have identified a drug treatment th…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center During the pandemic, cancer patients undergoing treatment or participating in clinical trials at The University of Kansas Cancer Center don’t have to wor…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center To prevent domestic shortages of critical medications, the Medicines for All Institute, based in the Virginia Commonwealth University College of Engineer…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The Pennsylvania Medical Society released its list of this year’s Top Physicians Under 40. Two Fox Chase Cancer Center doctors were honored: Sanjay S. Re…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Sixteen physicians, researchers, and educators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have collaborated with the Tennessee Cancer Coalition, Tennessee Department …

Moffitt Cancer Center In a new study, Moffitt researchers reveal how protein-signaling pathways associated with cellular stress processes turn myeloid cells into tumor-promoting players and su…

UK Markey Cancer Center A study led by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that implementing cancer education curricula in middle and high schools may improve cancer literacy and ulti…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center New data from the Phase III EMBRACA trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found the PARP inhibitor tal…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lower-income Americans are more likely to smoke cigarettes than those who are more affluent. While the f…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Tanmay Lele, PhD, has been awarded a National Cancer Institute U01 grant to examine the physical and molecular mechanisms of the cancer nucleus. Rese…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A study by Vanderbilt researchers has identified genomic alterations in early stage adenocarcinomas of the lung that may indicate whether the lesions develop in…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A new analysis led by physicians at Roswell Park shows that some patients with small node-negative breast tumors that test positive for both the hormon…

University of Virginia Cancer Center By mining a vast trove of genetic data, researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are enhancing doctors’ ability to treat cancer, predic…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (FASCO) in honor of his extraordinary volunteer service, dedication,…

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center The Department of Defense’s Prostate Cancer Research Program has awarded Nima Sharifi, MD, who directs the Cleveland Clinic Genitourinary Malignancies Research C…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center The National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.4 million R38 grant to support research by Duke Radiat…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A historical review authored by Joseph McGuirk, DO, and Anurag Singh, MD, of KU Cancer Center chronicles decades of immune-based research leading to a ne…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health A recently published protocol paper by Fox Chase researchers describes a new trial evaluating an intervention program designed to improve sexual relation…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a study to evaluate the safety of a type of immunotherapy before surgery in patients with an aggressive form of skin ca…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center A UC San Francisco team has advanced a technique to power a high-throughput platform to evaluate the specificity and potency of many differ…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center An over-active immune response may contribute to the severity of illness experienced by some COVID-19 patients. In this era of fi…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Breast surgeon Kristin L. Brill, MD, has joined Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health as enterprise director of breast oncology. Dr. B…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A leading expert in the search for ways to treat aggressive adult and pediatric brain tumors, Duane A. Mitchell, MD, PhD, will direct the University …

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Andrew Chapman, DO, is being honored with the 2020 B.J. Kennedy Award for Scientific Excellence in Geriatric Oncology from the American Society of Cli…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey As part of the SWOG Cancer Research Network and ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group, investigators collaborated on a randomized Phase II clinical trial exam…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a first-time disclosure of IPN60090, a small-molecule inhibitor of the metabolic enzyme glutaminase, researchers from The University of Tex…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center J. Alan Diehl has been appointed deputy director and chief operating officer of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, a collaboration of Case Western Reserve U…

WVU Cancer Institute Abraham Kanate, MD, recently led the consensus guidelines from the American Society of Transplant and Cellular Therapy on indications for transplant and cellular therapy. …

Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota Jenny Poynter, MPH, PhD, and Daniel Harki, PhD, have been appointed to the leadership team of Masonic Cancer Center. Dr. Poynter will serve as th…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center A University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher calls a new clinical study a "historic" step in the treat…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center If his mother, sisters, and daughters have a history of breast and ovarian cancers, possibly stemming from mutations in genes like BRCA1/2…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center While it has long been thought that locally-delivered radiation therapy typically does not help to shrink tumors outside the field of irradiation, new …

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In a realignment of the division of hematology and oncology that will form two divisions from one, Jonat…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Darren Carpizo, MD, PhD, has joined UR Medicine as the new chief of surgical oncology, vice-chair of basic/translational research, and co-leader of the Hal…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center David Solomon, MD, PhD, and colleagues shared a comprehensive genomic and epigenomic analysis of bithalamic glioma, identifying gene altera…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Researchers from The University of Kansas Cancer Center, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, and Children’s Mercy Kansas City have identified a n…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey is offering a clinical trial as a potential treatment for patients diagnosed with COVID-19. The trial is not limit…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Xiang-Yang (Shawn) Wang, PhD, has been appointed as the co-leader of the developmental therapeutics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center. He will…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University scientists at Siteman Cancer Center have received a $2.5 million NCI grant to continue research into pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, which account…

WVU Cancer Institute Richard M. Goldberg, MD, retired in December 2019 as director of the WVU Cancer Institute. OncLive®, a multimedia resource focused on providing oncology professionals with patie…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center received a $2.8 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to help devel…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Massey Cancer Center researchers began two clinical trials this week on a potential, experimental treatment for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus rapidly s…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health A group of Fox Chase clinicians shared their expertise in an article that advised physicians on the best approach to take with patients who have been dia…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University scientists at Siteman Cancer Center have developed a new imaging agent that could let physicians identify not only multiple types of tumors but the …

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Larry Kwak, MD, PhD, vice president and deputy director of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, was inducted into the 2020 class of American Institute f…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center A multidisciplinary team of investigators at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center has received a program project grant from the Nation…

John Cleveland, PhD, has been named center director and executive vice president of Moffitt Cancer Center, one of 51 National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the country. …

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Based on early results from a clinical trial at UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is testing a drug comb…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Carolyn Fang, PhD, a researcher at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been elected as a fellow to the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Much of Dr. Fang’s research foc…

GW Cancer Center The OncoMX knowledgebase will improve the exploration and research of cancer biomarkers in the context of related evidence, according to a recent article from the George Washi…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health In the largest retrospective population-based study to date, Jefferson researchers showed that hospitalization increased by as much as 114 perce…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer Experts in the Cedars-Sinai Cardio-Oncology Program work alongside oncologists to encourage heart monitoring before, during, and after cancer treatment. The program is more…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new study by UK Markey Cancer Center researchers suggests that targeting a protein known as heat shock protein 47 (Hsp47) could be key for suppressing breast cancer m…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study conducted by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center demonstrated acceptable toxicity and anti-tumor activity…

Stanford Cancer Institute In recent months, Michael Bassik, PhD, and his lab members have been busy making millions of tiny round tumor "spheroids." These little round balls of cells are a typ…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Gina Curry, MPH, MBA, is the new director of the UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Office of Community Engagement &am…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Established in 2017 within the VCU College of Engineering, the Medicines for All Institute (M4ALL) at VCU is an internationally distinctive facility equi…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The number of people diagnosed with thyroid cancer has more than quadrupled in the last 40 years. It is a classic case of disease overdiagnosis, with…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center An anti-cancer compound developed at the University of Michigan has shown "profound" activity in mouse models against two subtypes of leukemia, accor…

Siteman Cancer Center Stephanie M. Perkins, MD, a Washington University associate professor of radiation oncology, has been named director of the S. Lee Kling Proton Therapy Center at Siteman …

Stanford Cancer Institute About 1 in 40 postmenopausal women diagnosed with breast cancer before age 65 have cancer-associated mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, according to a study led…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers from Vanderbilt-Ingram discovered a role for MYCN in triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and identified a potential intervention for further clinic…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Devanand Sarkar, MBBS, PhD, and Paul B. Fisher, MPh, PhD, FNAI, scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Institute of Molecular Medicine, were awar…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University More than 35 million Americans take statin drugs daily to lower their blood cholesterol levels. Now, in experiments with h…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center John H. Sampson, MD, PhD, MBA, chair of the Duke Department of Neurosurgery, has assumed the role of president of the Private Diagnostic C…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center Aytekin Oto, MD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. His research, which is sup…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In experiments with mice, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have slowed the growth of transpl…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have received a $2.7 million grant from the N…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke orthopedic surgical oncologists Brian Brigman, MD, PhD, William Eward, MD, DVM, and Julia Visgauss, MD; interventional radiologist Al…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute OSUCCC – James has announced the passing of Clara D. Bloomfield, MD, a distinguished…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Vanderbilt researchers have identified ancestral fragments of DNA that are associated with hereditary prostate cancer in a first-of-its-kind genomic study. Rese…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Edna Cukierman, PhD, co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named a fellow of the …

Siteman Cancer Center A new $3 million grant is supporting a clinical trial to investigate whether an osteoporosis drug can reduce breast density in premenopausal women with dense breasts. Wom…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center The University of Kansas Cancer Center will receive an additional $5 million from the state budget for the KU Cancer Center Research Fund, approved by th…

Cancer Center at Illinois Paul J. Hergenrother, PhD, was appointed the Cancer Center at Illinois (CCIL) deputy director, effective March 1. Dr. Hergenrother currently co-leads the CCIL researc…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center A $12 million federal grant enabled City of Hope and collaborators to deploy a novel cloud-computing platform, making an immense amount of data from a …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Around 60 teens attended a special town hall meeting on vaping sponsored by The University of Kansas Cancer Center in partnership with the Kansas City Ka…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center At a cellular level, the growth of cancer requires both a foot on the gas pedal and a removal of vital braking mechanisms. However, more than 100 stu…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Nathan Boyd, MD, and his team recently launched The University of New Mexico Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Program, housed at the UNM Com…

Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC), an AACI sustaining member, has launched two new online communities to rapidly disseminate critical informati…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Rhea Dodd is the first patient treated with an experimental cancer vaccine derived from a completely new cell engineering platform. The retired veterinarian, tr…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Some lung nodules identified on radiographic studies need specialized follow-up to ensure early detection and trea…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study led by University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists shows that screening every three years instead of annual…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have designed and successfully tested an experimental, super small package able to…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Uveal melanoma—a cancer found in the eye—is rare, comprising less than five percent of all melanomas. Despite successful treatment of the primar…

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers identified a combination of genetic factors associated with cognit…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center Angela Wandinger-Ness, PhD, was honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) with its 2020 Lifetime Mentor Award. She…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has been recognized by the QOPI Certification Program LLC as successfully completing a three-year certification for oncology practices t…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Recognized for his contributions to patient care, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Wesley Hicks, Jr., MD, FACS, has earned a Distinguished Alumnus A…

Moffitt Cancer Center A new children’s book, Fritzy Finds a Hat, written by Olympic Gold Medalist, bestselling author, and cancer survivor Scott Hamilton, and illustrated by country music supe…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center The circadian rhythm is gaining traction as a potential catalyst—or brake—for the onset of disease. For example, studies have shown that women who work…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Jiali Han, PhD, and colleagues at the IU Simon Cancer Center, have discovered eight new loci—locations on a person’s genome…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that treating soft tissue sarcoma with radiation over a significan…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center After more than 30 years as chair of City of Hope’s Department of Hematology & Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, Stephen J. Forman, MD, will tran…

Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School A type of cancer that has traditionally been caused by tobacco and alcohol use now has a stronger connectio…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center In the United States, the medical community has made great strides in preventing and controlling cervical cancer. Screening can effectively detect th…