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Goldstein to Use $2.7M NCI Grant to Develop, Test Warnings for Little Cigars, Cigarillos

University of North Carolina Health Care System — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:55:26 EST

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.

Closing the Rural Health Gap: Media Update from RWJF and Partners on Rural Health Disparities

News — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 08:55:00 EST

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.

UAB Cancer Center Celebrates Grand Opening of Modernized Facility

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:00:00 EST

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).

UC Davis Patient Embraces Personalized Approach to Lung Cancer Diagnosis

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:00:00 EST

As a woman in her mid-forties who didn't 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.

Wear Your Vegetables

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:05:00 EST

With skin cancer emerging as one of the world's 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.

Dana-Farber/ Harvard Cancer Center

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:00:00 EST

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's origins and development. This profile provides some history of the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center as well as a look at its current initiatives.

UCCCC Researchers Pinpoint Tumor Suppressor Gene Involved in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 10:00:00 EST

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 Working to Prevent Cancer in High-Risk Populations

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 10:40:00 EST

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.

University of New Mexico Cancer Center

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 11:00:00 EST

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's 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.

UPMC's 'Big Data' Shows Promise for Cancer Care

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:00:00 EST

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.

Cancer Therapy & Research Center

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:15:00 EST

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's origins and development. This profile provides some history of the Cancer Therapy & Research Center as well as a look at its current initiatives.

'Promising Target' Found in Treating Deadly Brain Cancer at UVA

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 15:00:00 EST

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.

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:25:00 EST

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's 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.

Cancer Services Expand at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center with New Hospital

NCI-Designated Cancer Centers — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:40:00 EST

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.

Kidney Cancer Progression Linked to Shifts in Tumor Metabolism

National Cancer Institute (NCI) at NIH — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 14:00:00 EST

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).