Younger patients say colorectal cancer is a disease that doesn’t follow age guidelines, so pay attention to early symptoms.

Michael Savona, MD, has received a competitive grant to develop therapies for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes.

Alice Ingram Hooker, a longtime supporter of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and former chair of their boards, died July 23 after an extended illness.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have obtained the first high-resolution image of a molecular “machine” used by the insidious stomach bug Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) to inject a cancer-causing protein into the stomach lining.

A clinical study of a drug that may block cancer metastasis is currently enrolling patients at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Biomarkers of DNA methylation, which regulate gene expression, can be a predictor of breast cancer risk.

Fish oil supplementation provides a modest but beneficial effect on reducing molecules associated with colorectal cancer development.