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

Jimmy Bradford’s final gift spurred groundbreaking research on melanoma. Now his onetime colleague and friend is among the thousands of patients who are benefiting. Read their story in “An Abiding Bond”

The recent expansion of the Outpatient Transplant Unit (OTU) at Vanderbilt- Ingram Cancer Center has nearly doubled the number of treatment rooms, provided additional space for consultations, counseling and physical therapy, and allowed for the addition of four new staff positions. These improvements are facilitating patient care by enabling the clinic to care for additional […]

One person in the United States dies every 10 minutes from a blood cancer – leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. This year more than 140,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed and more than 53,000 will die from these blood cancers, according to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The good news is the overall […]

Dori Brown’s spirited battle against acute myeloid leukemia inspired her friends and family to raise money to fund research on the disease.

Vanderbilt Mourns Loss of Frances Williams Preston Frances Williams Preston, one of the most successful female music executives in the history of the entertainment industry, and a member of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Board of Overseers, died from congestive heart failure at her home in Nashville, surrounded by her family, Wednesday, June 13. She was […]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is committed to conducting innovative, high-impact, basic, translational and clinical research with the greatest potential for making a difference for cancer patients, today and in the future. Here’s a sampling of work published recently in peer-reviewed journals by Cancer Center investigators:   Studies Offer Insights into Melanoma Treatment Vanderbilt-Ingram investigators were involved […]

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) – the main complication of allogeneic stem cell transplants – is the exact opposite of solid organ rejection: instead of your body rejecting the new organ, the new organ (the donor immune system) rejects you. In the acute post-transplant period, GVHD typically manifests as an itchy skin rash, gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, […]

It’s been two years since Joan Meredith’s stem cell transplant for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Although she is now “100 percent donor” and her new immune system appears to be functioning well, she remains vigilant against the health complications related to her transplant – like infections, for example. “I hated wearing the mask because I […]