Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health How can breast cancer cells from a primary tumor reach the bones when a patient is deemed "cancer free" after treatment? What allows cancer cell…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center faculty researcher Rodney Haring, PhD, MSW, has been recognized with a Research Into Action Award from the Robert Woo…

Siteman Cancer Center Julie Margenthaler, MD, a Washington University professor of surgery at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named president-elect of The American Society of Breast Surgeons. She wil…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University and other institutions report that a new laboratory test that induces cancer c…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Christopher Saigal, MD, professor of urology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has been elected to the American Association of Genitourinary Sur…

Siteman Cancer Center Two physician-scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Siteman Cancer Center were elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center New findings suggest an unexpected path to killing cancer cells could make immunotherapy more effective. Researchers at the University of Michigan Ro…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Reducing smoking, and its associated health effects, among Medicaid recipients in each state by just 1 percent would result in $2.6 billion…

University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center molecular medicine scientist Hua-Ying Fan, PhD, studies the cells of people with Cockayne syndrome, who don…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Researchers at The Wistar Institute and the University of South Florida have advanced a novel compound that specifically targets t…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Therese Hennig, MPAS, PA-C, advanced practice leader for the division of Hematologic Malignancies and Cellular Therapy, has been named dir…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Melanie Bean, PhD, LCP, was awarded over $5 million in grant funding by the National Institutes of Health to study fa…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope Provost and Chief Scientific Officer Steven T. Rosen, MD, has been inducted as a member of the Association of American Physicians (AAP). Dr. Rose…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A major public health initiative aimed at preventing cervical cancer in at-risk Appa…

UK Markey Cancer Center With $15 million from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Drug Abuse and a donation of 900 doses of a 12-week treatment from Gilead Sciences Inc…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $16 million grant to establish a cancer health equity center at the University of Florida and …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Anwaar Saeed, MD, has been accepted into the Academic GI Cancer Consortium, which brings together institutions and investigators to design and rapidly complete…

Siteman Cancer Center Ryan C. Fields, MD, has been named chief of the Section of Surgical Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Dr. Fields, who treats patients at …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Robin Famiglietti, PhD, MBA, FACHE, has been appointed chief administrator of Duke Cancer Institute and associate vice president of Oncolo…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center John Rossi, PhD, was given the Outstanding Achievement Award by the American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT) in March. This award recognizes an ASG…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered that triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells can develop r…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute Wistar scientists have developed a novel synthetic DNA approach for patient-specific production of cancer-targeting molecules call…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Blood clots are the next leading cause of death in cancer patients after cancer itself. Gary Lyman, MD, MPH, is studying how best to prevent blood clots in cancer…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Washington Governor Jay Inslee signed the state’s new Tobacco 21 legislation into effect on April 5 in a ceremony at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Start…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco is collaborating with the nonprofit Lazarex Cancer Foundation on a three-year study to identify ways to improve cancer cli…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers have observed that people with a history of using oral contraceptives are less likely to develop ovarian cancer. A team from Roswell Park a…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Janice M. Mehnert, MD, director of the Phase I/Investigational Therapeutics Program at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, is among the investigators…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A multi-institutional group of clinical researchers, led by the Duke Cancer Institute’s Andrew Armstrong, MD, McS, FACP, published a new r…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Christoph Seeger, PhD, is the recipient of the Hepatitis B Foundation’s 2019 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize for excellence in hepatitis B research. Dr. Seeger’s work …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah describes a new therapeutic approach with potential …

Stanford Cancer Institute Immune cells imbued with the power to detect tumors could be a new method of diagnosing cancer, according to a Stanford University School of Medicine study performed …

Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center A new paper shows for the first time how 5-azacytidine (AZA), a drug commonly prescribed to treat myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, causes ca…

Comprehensive Cancer Center St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Charles G. Mullighan, MBBS, MD, deputy dir…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health For more than a decade, Camille Ragin, PhD, MPH, has been working to eliminate cancer disparities among people of African ancestry. The first step is und…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center Smoking rates are down nationally, but so are discussions among physicians and smokers about lung cancer screening, University of Florida researchers…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study shows that while estrogen doesn’t directly affect triple-negative breast cancer cells, it can affect surroundi…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center UCLA researchers have developed a new artificial intelligence system to help radiologists improve their ability to diagnose prostate cancer. The system…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has honored Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center director Louis M. Weiner, MD, with a 20…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Using human cancer cells, tumor and blood samples from cancer patients, researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine have uncover…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Kevin Ault, MD, has been appointed to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices by Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II. This federal comm…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute The University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Cancer Institute is changing its name to the UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute (CCRI). The CCRI…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A study at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center revealed the investigational drug umbralisib as an effective treatment for patien…

Siteman Cancer Center Gregory J. Zipfel, MD, has been named head of the Department of Neurosurgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and neurosurgeon-in-chief at Barnes-…

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Nita Maihle, PhD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute as associate director for research. She will lead efforts t…

The University of Arizona Cancer Center William Cance, MD, deputy director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center (UA) in Phoenix, has been appointed interim director, effective July 1, 20…

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Indiana University School of Medicine researcher Reuben Kapur, PhD, has received more than $1.8 million from the National C…

University of Virginia Cancer Center When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly returned from a yearlong stay on the International Space Station on March 3, 2016, a young physician-scientist, Francine Ga…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center UPMC Hillman Cancer Center is one of just 15 cancer centers nationwide to take part in a groundbreaking collaborative clinical trial for acute myeloid leukemia (AML)…

University of Colorado Cancer Center A study by University of Colorado Cancer Center and Rain Therapeutics, Inc., shows that the clinical-stage drug, tarloxotinib, is active against NRG1-fusio…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Addiction Research Training Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) was recently awarded $2.1 million from the Natio…

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center A new study by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and National Cancer Institute researchers suggests that Oncotype DX-guided treatm…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Seeking to better understand triple-negative breast cancer's (TNBC) ability to disarm proteins that suppress tumors and mutate them into tumor drivers,…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope recently received $7.5 million in grant awards to study a rare type of blood cancer that affects the skin: cutaneous T cell lymphoma (CTCL…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) successfully re-competed for its status as a Lead Academic Participating Site for the National Clinical Trials …

O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Ravi Bhatia, MD, has been named interim director of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Al…

Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma The Stephenson Cancer Center at OU Medicine has been awarded a $10.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to expand its clini…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah With a grant from the National Cancer Institute, HCI researcher Charles R. Rogers, PhD, MPH, MS, CHES®, will implement and evaluate culture-…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Working with human colon cancer cells and mice, researchers led by experts at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say t…

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center New research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center sheds light on how tumors use the body’s regulators of immunity …

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The University of Chicago will lead the NRG Oncology Statistics and Data Management Center, which is receiving six more years of …

Stanford Cancer Institute Fewer than a quarter of breast cancer patients and a third of ovarian cancer patients diagnosed between 2013 and 2014 in two states underwent genetic testing for canc…

Ellen and Ronald Caplan Cancer Center of The Wistar Institute After extensive peer review, The Wistar Institute’s Cancer Center has received an “exceptional” rating on its Cancer Center Suppor…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute has been awarded a $15.1 million grant as part of its successful 2019 redesignation by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, president of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and noted cancer biologist, was among three UCSF scienti…

Siteman Cancer Center A combination of two topical creams already shown to clear precancerous skin lesions from sun-damaged skin also lowers the risk that patients will later develop squamous …

Siteman Cancer Center Gerald L. Andriole, MD, the Washington University chief of urologic surgery at Siteman Cancer Center, has been elected to the American College of Surgeons Academy of Master Surg…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has named Susan Cohn, MD, dean for clinical research at the University of Chicago Me…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Zihai Li, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist and immunologist, has been named founding di…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center were awarded more than $1.1 million to investigate alternative treatment options for cancer patients with nerve d…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Zena Werb, PhD, has been named a 2019 AACR Academy Fellow for her contributions to the understanding of cellular microenvironments, inflammation, …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Doubling the low amount of total body radiation delivered to patients undergoing bone marrow transplants with donor cells …

GW Cancer Center Medical oncologist George Kim, MD, will direct the George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center's Gastrointestinal Cancers Program. Dr. Kim, who specializes in colorectal, …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A preclinical study led by researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center has identified a region of the human genome, called a super-enhancer, as…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health The average person could not identify many genetic similarities between an opossum and a mouse, however, new research from scientists at Fox Chase Cancer…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have demonstrated a method of forecasting which breast cancer patients will suffer heart problems from a com…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a possible new therapeutic strategy using two types of drug inhibitors at o…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center A new study by UF Health researchers, led by Ali Zarrinpar, MD, PhD, finds that Hispanics, the elderly, and people with diabetes have a higher risk o…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer The Cedars-Sinai Research Center for Health Equity is front and center in the growing trend of population health studies, which addresses environmental, cultural, and genet…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Scott Antonia, MD, PhD, who joined Duke in February, has been appointed director of the newly formed DCI Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved atezolizumab (Tecentriqâ) in combination with chemotherapy for the initial treatment of exten…

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Tobacco conglomerates that used colors, flavors, and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers transferred these same strat…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Children with the severe skin disease, recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa—also known as "butterfly disease"—often develop an aggressive …

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Adhesion of lymphocytes to their cellular targets is critical to adaptive immunity. This process is controlled by a group of cell surface receptors calle…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded a five-year grant of nearly $2.83 mi…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center A new meta-analysis led by Joseph Unger, PhD, MS, has revealed that structural and clinical barriers prevent more than three out of four cancer patients from part…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University In a study of 142 patients preparing for cancer surgery, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have evidence that psychologic…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center MD Anderson Cancer Center has named Giulio Draetta, MD, PhD, as chief scientific officer, a new position that champions innovation, strengthen…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center A team led by Andrew Godwin, PhD, deputy director of The University of Kansas Cancer Center, has been awarded a five-year, $11.4 million National Institu…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke researchers led by H. Kim Lyerly, MD, have developed a vaccine that shows early promise in targeting the HER2 protein that fuels a de…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute A study led by UAMS surgeon Brendan C. Stack Jr., MD, has shown the potential to alter neck dissection surgeries in about 21 percent of head and n…

The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center The American Cancer Society has named Michelle M. Le Beau, PhD, director of the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Cent…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Michael Jung, PhD, a UCLA distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry and member of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been selected …

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Lung cancer is the leading cancer killer, yet coverage of screenings for individuals at high risk for lung cancer varies across state Medicaid…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center More than a decade of research on the mda-7/IL-24 gene has shown that it helps to suppress a majority of cancer types, and now scientists are focusing on…

Stanford Cancer Institute Molecular data obtained from breast cancer cells can be used to predict which patients are at a high risk for recurrence even decades after their diagnosis, according…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Paul Visco has been promoted to the role of chief technology officer (CTO) at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. A new position at Roswell Park,…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A $6.6 million award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) leads the latest slew of grants awarded to Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center resea…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Adam P. Dicker, MD, PhD, has been named a fellow of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). Dr. Dicker is senior VP and chair of Enterprise …

WVU Cancer Institute Researchers at the West Virginia University Cancer Institute are evaluating a first-of-its-kind blood test for detecting colorectal cancer. Their findings may help propel …

GW Cancer Center Researchers at GW Cancer Center found that the enzyme USP15 could potentially lead to new treatments for breast and pancreatic cancer. The Cancer Genome Atlas indicates that U…