Tom Wilemon

(photo by Donn Jones)

Cookeville celebration

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center celebrated a ribbon cutting recently  at the Cookeville Regional Medical Center Cancer Center, where Vanderbilt-Ingram medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and advanced practice nurses are now the exclusive providers for cancer care.

Clinical trial for rectal cancer subtype shows promise for less aggressive treatment

The findings were so promising that the clinical trial is being redesigned to investigate whether radiation treatment can also be avoided.

Cathy Eng, MD

International overview of colorectal cancer provides multidisciplinary perspective of clinical advances

The authors hope the report will provide insight on the importance of education, screening and awareness to all health care providers.

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Study of messenger RNA regulatory mechanism reveals cancer risk genes

The Vanderbilt study used RNA-sequencing data generated in multiple normal tissues, along with matched genotype data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression Project as well as large-scale genomic data for cancers of the breast, ovary, prostate, colorectum, lung and pancreas.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s clinicians will staff the Cancer Center at Cookeville Regional Medical Center

Through this agreement Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and advanced practice nurses will be Cookeville Regional’s exclusive providers of cancer services.

Eunyoung Choi, PhD, and James Goldenring, MD, PhD. (photo by Erin O. Smith)

Grant funds research for therapies to prevent stomach cancer

The funds will help launch a clinical trial in the U.S. with one of the therapies and compare it with another therapy from an ongoing clinical trial in Japan.

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