Cancer Archive — Page 20 of 71

Group of nine adults posing indoors; two women at center hold a framed certificate, while others stand around them wearing leis. A round sign in the background reads “Lily’s Garden.”
March 30, 2023

Family’s gift will support pediatric cancer research

Lily Hensiek’s family has made a new $1 million commitment to endow the Lily’s Garden Discovery Researcher Fund in the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

By Nancy Humphrey
Patient seated in a medical treatment chair wearing a head-mounted device and connected by tubing to a wheeled clinical machine in a treatment room.
March 30, 2023

New treatment helps mitigate hair loss for chemotherapy patients

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has started offering scalp cooling, which mitigates hair loss for patients receiving certain chemotherapy regimens.

By Tom Wilemon
Portrait of a blonde woman with wavy hair wearing a black top and pendant necklace against a brown background.
March 30, 2023

Sandler named co-chair of ACR’s Lung Cancer Screening Steering Committee

Vanderbilt’s Kim Sandler, MD, has been named co-chair of the Lung Cancer Screening Steering Committee for the American College of Radiology.

By Tom Wilemon
March 27, 2023

Improving lung nodule diagnosis

Adding blood and imaging biomarkers to a clinical prediction model could improve diagnostic accuracy for the 1.6 million lung nodules detected each year, many through expanded lung cancer screening programs.

By Leigh MacMillan
Research by Mingjian Shi, PhD, left, Jonathan Mosley, MD, PhD, Kerry Schaffer, MD, MSCI, and colleagues found that polygenic risk score does not improve prediction of aggressive prostate cancer.
March 16, 2023

Study evaluates polygenic risk score for prostate cancer risk prediction

A Vanderbilt study found that prostate cancer polygenic risk score has limited utility for enhancing prostate cancer screening.

By Leigh MacMillan
Portrait of a smiling woman wearing a white lab coat, with dark hair pulled over one shoulder.
March 16, 2023

Eng stresses need for clinical trial support at cancer forum

Vanderbilt’s Cathy Eng, MD, stressed the need for more patient participation and better funding for clinical trials to improve colorectal cancer treatment and outcomes during the White House Cancer Moonshot Colorectal Cancer Forum.

By Tom Wilemon