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. […]
The children of E. Bronson Ingram II and Martha Rivers Ingram have continued their legacy of giving with the establishment of the Ingram Cancer Innovation Fund. This gift will propel treatment improvements for gastrointestinal oncology and sustain Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s internationally respected leadership in cancers of the digestive system. The fund will also support research […]
Gail Kraemer did what she wanted, how she wanted, when she wanted to do it. In her early years, she traveled through Africa and Mongolia big game hunting. Later in life, she got her pilot’s license and became an avid golfer. Whether she was jet skiing around Tellico Lake or hosting a dinner party, Kraemer […]
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, […]
J.D. Anderson, a 64-year-old cattle producer from Arapahoe, Nebraska, who has been battling stage 4 colon cancer since 2012, has made the 28-hour round trip to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, often monthly, over the past four years. For the past three years, 5-year-old Jackson Simpson of Charlotte, North Carolina, has been receiving treatment for hepatoblastoma, a […]
This summer, Jim Delany took the Queen Mary 2 from New York City to Southampton, England, with his brother, spent three days in London, four days in the Dordogne region of France and two days in Paris. He returned to Nashville just in time for his second infusion of PluvictoTM, a radioactive drug therapy targeted […]
The challenge to accomplish “practice-changing, paradigm-shifting, policy-creating” research is one that scientists and clinicians at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have often heard from Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD. Those words are like a mantra for Pietenpol, Executive Vice President for Research, chief scientific and strategy officer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and holder of the Brock Family […]
At the age of 13, Jason Schwartz made a life-changing decision. Amid cancer treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Schwartz was handed an incredible gift that would fuel his life’s work. “I developed a great relationship with my tutor,” recalled Schwartz. “Dennis was his name. I remember that I didn’t always feel so great, and schoolwork […]
A collaboration between Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is providing access to clinical research for people in the Deep South and expanding the research missions for both institutions. Memphis-based Baptist has a network of 22 hospitals and 25 cancer centers with 13 of those oncology clinics in smaller cities of Mississippi, […]
Larry Marnett, PhD, points at an iconic photograph of the American thoroughbred racehorse Secretariat winning the Belmont Stakes and clinching the Triple Crown in 1973. Secretariat, far ahead of the small blurry group of horses behind him, still holds the speed record and largest margin of victory for the track. “Secretariat won by 31 lengths. […]
