Sound Power
New technology sends ultrasound waves to destroy tumors
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A Grateful Goal
A clinical trial saved Lily Hensiek’s life when she relapsed with childhood leukemia. Now, she’s helping other cancer patients.
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Chemo Allergy
Researchers seek biomarkers to identify patients with chemotherapy allergies
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On the Ball
“I’m engaged with cancer, but I’m not defined by it,” says former Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany.
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Departments
Day in Life
At one point or another as a little boy you are told, “Get over it.” These three words you wouldn’t think could do much damage, but deep inside they deteriorate a man’s ability to trust his feelings. Feelings are one thing, but trusting your health is a whole other bag of worms. What do you […]
Spotlight: Cholangiocarcinoma
C-H-O-L-A-N-G-I-O-C-A-R-C-I-N-O-M-A. Anne Wolfe asked the doctor to spell it out. She had come to see Kamran Idrees, M.D., a surgical oncologist at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) knowing that she had a malignancy in her liver, but she didn’t know the type of cancer that had secretly invaded the organ. “He looked at me and said […]
My Story
At one point or another as a little boy you are told, “Get over it.” These three words you wouldn’t think could do much damage, but deep inside they deteriorate a man’s ability to trust his feelings. Feelings are one thing, but trusting your health is a whole other bag of worms. What do you […]
Picture This
Pierre Massion, MD, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair and Professor of Medicine, an internationally known expert on early detection and prevention strategies for lung cancer, died April 4 of an apparent heart attack. He was 58. Dr. Massion was director of the Cancer Early Detection and Prevention Initiative and co-leader of the Cancer Health Outcomes and Control […]
Innovations
Remarkable. That’s how Bhagirathbhai Dholaria, MD, described responses to an ongoing clinical trial for patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma who had run out of treatment options. Dholaria, associate professor of Medicine, presented interim results from the Phase 1 trial for a new “off-the-shelf” chimeric antigen receptor-T cell (CAR-T) therapy at the 21st International […]
Also In This Issue
Director's Letter
A word from the Director
Q&A
Conversations with cancer experts
Quick Takes
News from around the Cancer Center
Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.