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News: May, 2017

Pow! Unleashing immunotherapies & protecting patients

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

  The television ad opens on a city skyline at sunrise, with people looking up curiously at the buildings. “It’s not every day something this big comes along,” says the narrator, as words appear projected on the side of a building. “A chance to live longer,” the words spell out in big, bright capital letters. […]

The Cancer Checklist

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

  Van Edmundson had been diligent in getting routine colonoscopies, beginning at age 50, so when his doctor asked him to get a new scan after he began having shortness of breath and developed anemia, he was happy to do so. The colonoscopy revealed a small, cancerous mass. Now, four years after surgery to remove […]

Journal Watch

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017

Discovery offers new insight on lung cancer risk Researchers have discovered a proteomic “signature” from the airways of heavy smokers that could lead to better risk assessment and perhaps new ways to stop lung cancer before it starts. The findings, reported Nov. 17, 2016, in JCI Insight, are based on the observation that otherwise normal-looking […]

News Around the Cancer Center

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

21st Century Cures Act supports cancer research Lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle, along with patients, physicians and scientists agree on one urgent priority—the need to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery to address a range of serious and costly illnesses, from cancer to Alzheimer’s disease. In a spirit of harmony and far-reaching […]

A Second Chance

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

I was being nothing but vain and having a small mole removed from my face. Since the removal was for cosmetic reasons, my dermatologist didn’t measure the size or take pictures, but she did order a biopsy. Within three days I received the call that no one ever wants to get. The mole on my […]

Cancer sleuths span the globe tracking down a prolific killer

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

  Cancer is a peripatetic world traveler that doesn’t recognize geographic barriers or halt at national borders. It is among the leading causes of death worldwide. There were 14 million new cancer cases in 2012 and 8.2 million deaths, and the number of new cancer cases is expected to surge to 22 million within the […]

An Abiding Bond

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

Luke Simons and James C. “Jimmy” Bradford Jr. worked alongside one another for decades at J.C. Bradford & Co., an investment banking and brokerage firm, but it wasn’t until six years after Bradford’s death that the full prospectus of their journeys became clear. Simons, who was diagnosed with metastatic melanoma in July 2016, has a […]

Age-Range Screening Recommendations

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

Women A skin exam should be part of your annual checkup, and you should regularly self-monitor all moles on your skin and report any changes to your physician. The National Breast Cancer Foundation recommends that all adult women do a monthly breast self-exam.   Ages 21-29 Clinical breast exam every one to three years to […]

Ambassadors philanthropic funding key to discovery

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

Before they became collaborators, they were competitors. On a Saturday in November 2015, Javid Moslehi, M.D., and Justin Balko, Pharm.D., Ph.D., met for the first time. They were competing for Discovery Grants funded by the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Ambassadors, a group of young professionals who support groundbreaking cancer research. VICC Ambassadors provide “seed funding” […]

Donor support helps patients with genotyping costs

Tuesday, May 30th, 2017

Genotyping a tumor to identify DNA mutations is an expensive workup, one that health insurance policies won’t always cover. Philanthropic support is helping fill that gap. Under the volunteer leadership of Orrin H. Ingram II, chair of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) Board of Overseers, his brother John Ingram and Board of Overseers member Ronnie […]

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