Cancer

August 18, 2016

VICC helps launch new alliance for rare kidney cancer

Children, adolescents or young adults, particularly African-Americans, diagnosed with advanced kidney cancer may actually have a rare form of the disease known as renal medullary carcinoma (RMC) that requires a specialized approach and expert intervention.

By VUMC News and Communications
August 17, 2016

Chicken Salad Chick Foundation gift to support Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center research

Chicken Salad Chick Foundation founding board members Stacy Brown and Betty and Earlon McWhorter presented a $200,000 check to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) to support cancer research. Among other initiatives, the Chicken Salad Chick Foundation was proud to host Music and Miracles Superfest, the first major stadium concert in Jordan-Hare’s 75-year history, held on April 23 in Auburn, Alabama.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 25, 2016

Free colon cancer awareness event is Aug. 5

For some people, cancer—especially colon cancer—is a persistent and potentially deadly visitor affecting family members from one generation to the next. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, in partnership with the Colon Cancer Alliance, is hosting a free seminar to educate the public about risk factors associated with the disease.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 25, 2016

Colon cancer awareness event set for Aug. 5

For some people cancer, especially colon cancer, is a persistent and potentially deadly visitor affecting family members from one generation to the next. Individuals who have a parent, sibling or child diagnosed with colon cancer have double the risk of developing the disease.

By VUMC News and Communications
July 20, 2016

Breast cancer: finding the smoking gun

A new method developed at Vanderbilt may help “inventory” all tumor-promoting genes.

By Bill Snyder
African American woman looks up at sky
July 6, 2016

VICC researchers to study reasons for high breast cancer incidence and mortality rates among African-American women

A cancer research consortium headed by investigators at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and two other institutions have received $12 million in federal funding to help determine why African-American women die at a higher rate and have more aggressive breast cancer than white women.

By VUMC News and Communications
June 30, 2016

Vanderbilt University Medical Center selected for CMS-led initiative promoting better cancer care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that it has selected Vanderbilt University Medical Center to participate in a care delivery model that supports and encourages higher quality, more coordinated cancer care. The Medicare arm of the Oncology Care Model includes more than 3,200 oncologists — about one-fifth of U.S. oncology specialists — and will involve approximately 155,000 Medicare beneficiaries nationwide.
By VUMC News and Communications
June 22, 2016

Lovly tapped to brief Congress on cancer research

Christine Lovly, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, has been selected to testify before members of Congress about the importance of cancer research, including early training programs for individuals interested in science.
By Doug Campbell
June 9, 2016

VUMC Lung Cancer Screening Center earns recognition

Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been designated a Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 26, 2016

Precision medicine already changing cancer treatment strategies

The ability to test patients’ cancers for individual differences, mainly at the genetic level, and to make treatment decisions based on those differences is the hallmark of precision medicine, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is among the leaders of this new approach to diagnosis and treatment.
By VUMC News and Communications
May 19, 2016

VICC investigators in spotlight at AACR conference

A top Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) investigator recently met with Vice President Joe Biden regarding the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, a major national program to identify, fund and accelerate the most promising research leading to cancer cures.
By VUMC News and Communications
April 28, 2016

An Argonaute’s voyage to cancer

A genetic mutation that promotes cancer development blocks the normal sorting of a protein called “Argonaute 2.”
By Bill Snyder
April 21, 2016

Study explores how some breast cancers resist treatment

A targeted therapy for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the most aggressive form of breast cancer, has shown potential promise in a recently published study. TNBC is the only type of breast cancer for which there are no currently approved targeted therapies.
By VUMC News and Communications
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