Cancer Archive — Page 20 of 70
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February 9, 2023
Vanderbilt-Ingram joins CancerLinQ quality initiative
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is now participating in CancerLinQ, a technology initiative focused on improving patient care that tracks quality metrics in real time. -
February 2, 2023
Researchers clarify role of blood cell mutations in disease
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a new method to analyze mutations in blood stem cells that can trigger explosive, clonal expansions of abnormal cells. -
January 19, 2023
Pediatric surgeon’s medical career began with a lucky catch
While he was in medical school, pediatric surgeon Joseph Fusco, MD, learned in an unusual way that he had thyroid cancer. -
January 19, 2023
Surgeons target pancreatic cancer with electrons using new technology
Vanderbilt surgeons recently treated a pancreatic cancer patient using IntraOp Mobetron IORT with electrons — the first surgery performed in Tennessee with this new technology utilizing intraoperative radiotherapy in the operating room. -
January 12, 2023
Expandable prosthesis gives young patient more mobility
To treat the osteosarcoma in his left leg, Dominic Gamez, 7, and his family chose to have a magnetic expandable prosthesis implanted that can be manipulated to grow incrementally as the child grows. -
January 12, 2023
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grant supports single-cell study of rare inherited disease
A multidisciplinary team led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigator Alexander Bick, MD, PhD, has been awarded a $2 million, four-year grant to study inflammation at the single-cell level in the rare disease RUNX1-FPD. -
January 9, 2023
Novel lung cancer biomarker
Autoantibodies against the p53 tumor suppressor protein may be a novel biomarker for identifying people, especially African Americans, at high risk for lung cancer.