Cancer Archive — Page 62 of 67
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August 30, 2012
Vanderbilt-led study reveals racial disparities in prostate cancer care
Racial differences exist in quality surgical care, new research from VICC finds. -
August 23, 2012
Gene linked to familial prostate cancer
A rare, inherited mutation confers an eightfold increased risk of prostate cancer, a recent study shows. -
August 16, 2012
African ancestry, stomach bug link
Socioeconomic factors, African ancestry linked to risk for cancer-causing infection. -
August 9, 2012
Study tracks how gene may promote lung cancer tumors
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have identified how one of the genes most commonly mutated in lung cancer may promote such tumors. -
August 2, 2012
Arteaga named to Komen scientific advisory board
Carlos Arteaga, M.D., associate director for Clinical Research and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), has been named to the Scientific Advisory Board of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Breast Cancer Research Foundation. -
August 2, 2012
VICC’s Hassanein lands lung cancer research grant
Mohamed Hassanein, Ph.D., research instructor in Pulmonary Medicine, has received a Career Development Award from the LUNGevity Foundation to work on the development of noninvasive tests to help diagnose lung cancer. -
August 2, 2012
Proteins may point way to new prostate cancer drug targets
Two proteins that act in opposing directions – one that promotes cancer and one that suppresses cancer — regulate the same set of genes in prostate cancer, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have found.