The National Cancer Institute has awarded a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher a five-year, $2.7 million grant to develop more effective health warnings for little cigars and cigarillos.
Rural counties continue to rank lowest among counties across the U.S., in terms of health outcomes. A group of national organizations including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the National 4-H Council are leading the way to close the rural health gap.
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On Friday, Aug. 23, the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center celebrated the public grand opening of the renovated Lurleen B. Wallace Tumor Institute (WTI).
As a woman in her mid-forties who didn鈥檛 smoke, Elizabeth Lacasia never expected to be diagnosed with lung cancer. But in 2006, after she developed a persistent and serious cough, a chest X-ray and CT scan revealed several tumors in her lower left lung.
With skin cancer emerging as one of the world鈥檚 most prevalent forms of cancer, researchers are using every tool at their disposal to fight this disease. The tool of choice for Sally Dickinson, PhD? Broccoli.
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are home to many of the NCI-supported scientists who conduct a wide range of intense, laboratory research into cancer鈥檚 origins and development. This profile provides some history of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center as well as a look at its current initiatives.
Researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center (UCCCC) have identified a gene that contributes to the development of acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This pivotal finding follows 40 years of University of Chicago research that has slowly unraveled the genetic basis of leukemia.
Researchers at the University of Kansas Cancer Center's Cancer Control and Population Health program address the enormous health disparities common among American Indians and other populations at risk.
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are home to many of the NCI-supported scientists who conduct a wide range of intense, laboratory research into cancer鈥檚 origins and development. This profile provides some history of the University of New Mexico Cancer Center as well as a look at its current initiatives.
Just eight months after UPMC announced a $100 million, five-year project to create a novel warehouse of clinical and other data, UPCI researchers said they had found intriguing differences between some breast cancer patients which eventually could provide a roadmap for developing these targeted, personalized therapies.
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are home to many of the NCI-supported scientists who conduct a wide range of intense, laboratory research into cancer鈥檚 origins and development. This profile provides some history of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center as well as a look at its current initiatives.
Researchers at the University of Virginia Cancer Center have identified a promising target for treating glioblastoma, one that appears to avoid many of the obstacles that typically frustrate efforts to develop effective treatments for this deadliest of cancers.
Among the research institutions the National Cancer Institute funds across the United States, it currently designates 68 as Cancer Centers. Largely based in research universities, these facilities are home to many of the NCI-supported scientists who conduct a wide range of intense, laboratory research into cancer鈥檚 origins and development. This profile provides some history of the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey as well as a look at its current initiatives.
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center expands its cancer services with the opening in December 2013 of a six-floor addition to its Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Investigators in The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have uncovered a connection between how tumor cells use energy from metabolic processes and the aggressiveness of the most common form of kidney cancer, clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC).
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