Tom Wilemon

January 5, 2023

New approach outperforms existing cancer susceptibility models

A new approach for conducting gene-based analyses for cancer susceptibility created at Vanderbilt outperforms existing models.

By Tom Wilemon
December 8, 2022

Lovly receives Asclepios Award from GO2 for Lung Cancer

Vanderbilt’s Christine Lovly, MD, PhD, has received the 2022 Asclepios Award, which recognizes lung cancer research pioneers.

By Tom Wilemon
November 16, 2022

Cardiac antigen identified as mechanism for heart complication with immunotherapy-related myocarditis

Researchers from from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have identified the mechanism for the deadly heart inflammation myocarditis.

By Tom Wilemon
November 11, 2022

Study finds inherited link to appendix cancer

A Vanderbilt study is the first to show inherited risk factors for appendiceal cancer.

By Tom Wilemon
October 27, 2022

Study reveals pathways for aggressive prostate cancer subtype

Research from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has revealed new information about the molecular pathways of cribriform prostate cancer.

By Tom Wilemon
October 20, 2022

Event set to make lung cancer screening more accessible

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is making the lung cancer screening more convenient with weekend appointments from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Nov. 12, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks

By Tom Wilemon
October 20, 2022

Osterman appointed chair of mCODE executive committee

Vanderbilt's Travis Osterman, DO, MS, has been appointed chair of the executive committee for the Minimal Common Data Elements (mCODE) initiative.
By Tom Wilemon
September 30, 2022

Vanderbilt Health Pleasant View now open

The new Vanderbilt Health Pleasant View outpatient clinic offers greater convenience to primary care and specialized medical services for patients in Cheatham, Montgomery and Robertson counties.
By Tom Wilemon
September 29, 2022

Vanderbilt lauded for pancreatic cancer, pancreatitis care

Vanderbilt has been recognized as a National Pancreas Foundation Center of Excellence.
By Tom Wilemon
September 15, 2022

Lung cancer detection program lands grant renewal

The National Cancer Institute has renewed funding for the Early Detection Research Network Lung Cancer Clinical Validation Center at Vanderbilt- Ingram Cancer Center.
By Tom Wilemon
September 13, 2022

Patients had ‘significant and clinically meaningful improvement’ in survival in fruquintinib clinical trial

Patients with metastatic colorectal cancer who had not responded to other treatments had “significant and clinically meaningful improvement” in overall survival when treated with the oral targeted therapy fruquintinib.
By Tom Wilemon
September 1, 2022

Grant supports research to study gastric cancer origins

Vanderbilt researchers have received $5 million in funding from a new initiative by the National Cancer Institute that aims to define how gastric and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinomas form and evolve at the cellular level.
By Tom Wilemon
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