Quantum Leap
More patients with different cancers benefit from new immunotherapy treatments
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Summer 2016 Issue
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Day in Life
Vandana G. Abramson, M.D., gauges her smile as carefully as she prescribes doses of medicine. One patient may need beaming reassurance, while another might require a muted moment of understanding. On this Tuesday, she will meet with 26 patients. They come from across the United States to the Vanderbilt Breast Center, where Abramson, a medical […]
Spotlight: Prostate Cancer
After Ira Baxter was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the fall of 2014, he tried just about everything to treat it. He had his prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels tested and retested. He sought a second opinion, then a third—consulting physicians in Nashville, Los Angeles and Houston. For a time, he ate an all-organic diet, trying […]
Stories of Survival
My husband looked at me and said, “I need you to teach me how to fix her hair.” It was December of 2010, and we were sitting in an oncology office after hearing the news that I had stage IV melanoma. Cancer. Not just a little bit of cancer, but a lot. No one had […]
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Director's Letter
A word from the Director
Quick Takes
News from around the Cancer Center
Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.