Cancer
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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. -
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. -
September 13, 2022
Cancer registries and sarcoma research
The number of sarcoma research studies that use the two largest U.S. cancer registries is increasing, but over one-third of studies that asked the same research question reported conflicting findings. -
September 8, 2022
Study tests drug to illuminate cancer during surgery
A Vanderbilt study is testing drugs that provide a targeted fluorescent dye that clings to and illuminates cancer. -
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. -
September 1, 2022
Chic Aweareness ovarian cancer fundraiser moves online
Chic Awearness, a fundraiser for ovarian cancer research at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), is an online event this year from now throughout September with an in-store shopping opportunity to close out the month called Chic Week. -
August 29, 2022
Blood cancer progression
Vanderbilt researchers used single-cell technologies to explore the accumulation of mutations during blood cancer progression, which could help identify strategies for preventing leukemia before it occurs.