The total amount raised for ovarian cancer research and patient support by the annual Chic Awearness fashion show is expected to surpass $1 million with the 2024 gala, scheduled for 6 p.m., Sept. 20, atW Nashville, 300 12th Ave. South, Nashville, Tennessee. This year will mark the event’s 11th anniversary. Visit chicawearness.org to learn more […]
Eighty-year-old Lois Taylor is getting a big kick out of telling everyone she knows that she’s a celebrity. And she’s not wrong. Lois is the first person at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) to undergo a fully robot-assisted, minimally invasive colon and liver resection to remove cancer performed by two surgeons under a single anesthesia. […]
Vanderbilt’s Eden Biltibo, MD, MS, is one of the first recipients of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation’s Scholars Program, an initiative launched in 2022. Biltibo, assistant professor of Medicine, will receive $100,000 per year for four years to support her career development and research in “Identifying Effective and Cost-Conscious Maintenance Daratumumab Dosing.” She is one […]
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center collaborates with patient and community stakeholders in a bidirectional manner on research, cancer control efforts and quality care. The Community Advisory Board plays a key role in that mission by helping investigators design initiatives that have the appropriate outreach and engagement. One of the initiatives is the Southern Environmental Health Study. It […]
The parallel paths that surgeons Kamran Idrees and Aimal Khan took to combine their skills in an operating room in Nashville, Tennessee, took several decades and more than 7,000 miles. Khan, MD, assistant professor of Surgery, remembers his first visit to Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2020 when he was being interviewed as a […]
The Vanderbilt Transplant Center has performed its first lung transplant on a patient with lung cancer, and she is now cancer free. Carole Taylor, 48, of Nashville, Tennessee, said it all started with stiffness and soreness in her right shoulder. “It was growing increasingly stiff and got to where I couldn’t really move it,” she […]
A multidisciplinary team of investigators who will probe the connection between obesity and cancer has received a 2023 Endeavor Award from The Mark Foundation for Cancer Research. The three-year, $3 million award will support four closely linked projects exploring the fundamental mechanisms that drive the obesity-cancer connection, taking advantage of a rich collection of matched […]
Kimryn Rathmell, MD, PhD, MMHC, the former chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), became director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) on Dec. 18, 2023. Rathmell became the NCI’s 17th director and only the second woman to hold this position leading the nation’s fight against cancer. She was chosen […]
New urine test has higher diagnostic accuracy for prostate cancer A new urine test that measures 18 genes associated with prostate cancer provides higher accuracy for detecting clinically significant cancers than PSA and other existing biomarker tests, according to a study published April 18 in JAMA Oncology. The urine test, MyProstateScore 2.0, was shown to […]
It’s a quiet March day on the hematology/oncology floor at Vanderbilt University Hospital (VUH), and the calming sounds from an acoustic guitar are trickling out of Kayla Kidney’s room. Inside the room, Kidney, a Nashville, Tennessee, nurse who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in February, sat cross-legged on her hospital bed. Tori Langham, […]
