VU study to explore Accountable Care Organizations’ impact on cancer screenings

As health care organizations implement new strategies to improve quality and reduce costs, a physician researcher at VUMC is setting out to identify whether there could be unintended effects.

Probing roles of a cell death protein

Vanderbilt researchers have discovered new roles for a protein involved in cell death processes that are activated to prevent tumor-causing DNA mutations.

National cancer prevention study enrolls 168 at Vanderbilt

VU to serve as host site for ACS cancer prevention study

Most cancers are sporadic, which means that physicians don’t have enough clues to determine what caused an individual’s disease.

Bid protein guards blood cells against stress

A protein normally known to promote cell death found to encourage survival of blood forming cells.

African ancestry, stomach bug link

Socioeconomic factors, African ancestry linked to risk for cancer-causing infection.