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Summer/Fall 2020 Issue

Momentum: Moving toward a future without cancer.

  • Leadership Transitions

    Ann Richmond praised for nurturing research education; David Cortez and Debra Friedman named associate directors


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    Leadership Transitions

  • Unraveling a Viral Maze

    Vanderbilt experts lead international efforts to understand how COVID-19 affects cancer patients


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    Unraveling a Viral Maze

  • The GVHD tightrope

    New drugs help physicians balance treatments


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    The GVHD tightrope

  • ‘Why not me?’

    Clinical trial participation powers patient’s positive attitude


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    ‘Why not me?’

  • Handed Down

    Risk factors revealed for hereditary prostate cancer


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    Handed Down

Departments

Day in Life

Before the first COVID-19 cases were documented in Tennessee or Kentucky, Vanderbilt University Medical Center had a plan in place to keep providing highly specialized care in a safe environment for its patients. That plan has extra safeguards for cancer patients. People who come to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center enter and exit through automated doorways and […]

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Before the first COVID-19 cases were documented in Tennessee or Kentucky, Vanderbilt University Medical Center had a plan in place to keep providing highly specialized care in a safe environment for its patients. That plan has extra safeguards for cancer patients. People who come to Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center enter and exit through automated doorways and […]

Innovations

Dona Potter rode Harleys and drove 18-wheelers back when men dominated the open highways, and she is still defying expectations. The 87-year-old from Tullahoma, Tennessee, has proven that age is not a barrier to tolerating and benefiting from chimeric antigen receptor cell therapy (CAR-T), a new immunotherapy that entails re-engineering a patient’s T cells to […]

Also In This Issue

Director's Letter
A word from the Director

Journal Watch
Highlights of recent publications.