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Summer 2018 Issue

Momentum: Moving toward a future without cancer.

  • Unwelcome Encore


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    Unwelcome Encore

  • Reclaiming the neighborhood


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    Reclaiming the neighborhood

  • Combating cancer disparities is an out-of-office assignment


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    Combating cancer disparities is an out-of-office assignment

  • Flash Therapy


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    Flash Therapy

  • VICC’s top nurse crossed an ocean to achieve her dream


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    VICC’s top nurse crossed an ocean to achieve her dream

Departments

Day in Life

  On the third Monday of each month, a large conference room at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks whirs with activity and is all business — the business of sewing. Shortly before 10 a.m., a small army of women quietly enters the sliding doors of the Nashville healthcare complex, toting and wheeling the tools of […]

Spotlight: Prostate Cancer

“When it’s you, it’s a whole different feeling,” Orrin Ingram said, gazing at logs burning in the fireplace. A black Labrador puppy slept near his feet. Outside the window of his farmhouse, the remnants of a January snow slowly melted. “I never really thought that at 57 years old that I would be diagnosed with […]

My Story

  Hi, my name is Katie. I have a brain tumor — please don’t be shocked. It sounds worse than it is. Or maybe it really is as bad as it sounds. It is hard to tell people you have a brain tumor. Sometimes they get a glazed look on their faces. I get it. […]

Multimedia Highlights

What to know about smoking, and how to quit with Hilary Tindle, M.D., founding director, Vanderbilt Center for Tobacco, Addictions and Lifestyle.

Also In This Issue

Director's Letter
A word from Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D.

Quick Takes
News from around the Cancer Center

Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.