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February 1, 2011
Protein related to aging holds breast cancer clues
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May 10, 2010
How cancer cells lose their (circadian) rhythm
Immortality and uncontrolled cell division are the fundamental differences between cancer cells and normal cells. -
July 21, 2008
Southerners living in U.S. cancer belt; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers study causes of malignancy
The South is known for many things: hot, steamy summers, iced tea laced with sugar and friendly people with a tendency to welcome strangers. But beneath the veneer of Southern hospitality and gracious living lurks a silent killer: cancer. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have their own name for the southern region of the United States: the "cancer belt." -
June 16, 2008
President names Jennifer Pietenpol to National Cancer Advisory Board
President George W. Bush has appointed Jennifer A. Pietenpol, director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, to the National Cancer Advisory Board. Pietenpol, the B.F. Byrd Jr. Professor of Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram, will serve a six-year term through March 9, 2014. -
March 13, 2008
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center named Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare CancersSM
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has been selected as a Blue Distinction Center for Complex and Rare CancersSM by Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, in collaboration with BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. -
March 13, 2008
Vanderbilt-Ingram Researchers Find Clue to Cancer Drug Allergies
Cancer patients from the Southeastern United States who are treated with the drug cetuximab, known commercially as Erbitux, are far more likely to suffer severe allergic reactions than patients in other regions of the country. -
January 17, 2008
Pietenpol Chosen to Lead Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and professor of Biochemistry, has been named director of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
