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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Johnny Cleveland thought he was having a heart attack when he went to a community hospital, but medical imaging revealed something suspicious with his pancreas. The retired educator from Red Bay, Alabama, then went to Birmingham for more testing where he was diagnosed with an intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm — a cyst in the duct […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is a destination care center. Other cancer centers refer patients with challenging cases to us, and people come to us seeking second opinions and second chances. We are also the first-choice option for many people who are newly diagnosed. People with both commonly occurring cancers and rare cancers arrive here from across […]
The 24th annual Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Scientific Retreat focused on emerging technologies in research and celebrated the next generation of investigators. The guest speakers detailed initiatives about creating comprehensive reference maps for all human cells, exploring new frontiers for CAR T-cell therapies, and utilizing artificial intelligence to better understand protein structures and interactions. The Vanderbilt-Ingram […]
Andreana Holowatyj, PhD, MSCI, assistant professor of Medicine, has received the National Cancer Institute’s Method to Extend Research in Time (MERIT) Award to support her ongoing investigation into how early-onset colorectal cancer and its treatments impact reproductive health. This award is one that investigators cannot apply for directly. They are selected by National Cancer Institute […]
