Double Duty
Robotic technology makes simultaneous surgeries better for patients
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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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Shared Experience
As a childhood cancer survivor, pediatric oncologist Jason Schwartz uniquely relates to his patients
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Outreach
Vanderbilt-Ingram Engages Far Beyond Clinic Walls to Listen and Meet Community Needs
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Departments
Day in Life
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 […]
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
“However small the chance might be of striking luck; the chance is there. The chance has to be there.” – Roald Dahl, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” Stage 4 cancer monopolized three years of my life in my mid-20s. There is a platitude that likens the process of the diagnosis, treatment and survivorship of cancer […]
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
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 […]
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.