Cancer Archive — Page 2 of 70

July 22, 2026

Move over, Instagram: The screen teens are obsessed with this summer is SHE 

Nearly 160 students from 58 high schools applied this year across the entire region served by Vanderbilt-Ingram, which spans Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. Twenty-five girls and five boys were accepted.

July 2, 2026

Team’s prediction task compares GPT-4o with classic machine learning

Large language models have been functionally opaque. Seeking some transparency, a team undertook a comparison with traditional machine learning for predicting which patients would discontinue their home cancer medications.

June 30, 2026

Swimmers dove in to raise more than $130,000 for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

The funds will be awarded to cancer researchers studying new approaches for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

June 30, 2026

Vanderbilt Health performs nation’s first breast cancer surgery using intraoperative PET-CT scan technology

The novel imaging technology provides surgical teams with a real-time view of tumor margins in the operating room, allowing them to quickly determine if the entire cancerous mass was removed.

June 23, 2026

Vanderbilt Health lands three of 35 Susan G. Komen research grants

Komen is the largest nonprofit funder of breast cancer research outside of the U.S. government, having invested more than $1.1 billion in research since its founding.

June 23, 2026

New framework renders AI trustworthy for cancer subtyping

As trustworthiness takes center stage in medical AI, a new paper in Nature Biomedical Engineering describes a solution for trustworthy AI cancer subtyping.