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Cedars-Sinai Cancer Cedars-Sinai Cancer researchers have found that the incidence of pancreatic cancer—which historically has been higher in men than in women—increased among both men and wome…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Yuri Sykulev, MD, PhD, and colleagues at Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health, have shown that to efficiently kill melanoma cells, CA…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center A number of veteran nursing team members have been promoted to new leadership roles, including a newly named deputy chief nursing officer and superviso…

With continued health concerns and restrictions caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the 2021 AACI/CCAF Annual Meeting was held virtually in October. More than 500 cancer center members and other coll…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center researchers identified three practice recommendations for nurses to effectively reduce breast and cervical cancer disp…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Researchers at the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute and the Mayo Clinic have discovered a way to supercharge molecular cancer treatme…

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center In a first-in-human, Phase I trial, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center discovered that ATR inhibitor RP-3500 was…

Livestrong Cancer Institutes, The University of Texas at Austin, Dell Medical School "The CaLM Model: Hardwiring Cancer Centers for Whole Person Care," an initiative of Livestrong Cancer Institutes …

The 13th Annual AACI CRI Meeting Abstracts and Posters Book is now available to AACI members. The digital book features 62 abstracts from 27 cancer centers submitted for virtual presentation at the C…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have developed a therapy that shows promise against a deadly pediatric leukemia. The small-molecule therapy was highly effecti…

University of Illinois Cancer Center University of Illinois Cancer Center program leader Lisa Tussing-Humphreys, PhD, MS, RD, received a $3 million National Cancer Institute grant to investiga…

Improves Adherence & Outcomes 93% of patients surveyed report Patient Resource Guides assist them in following their physician’s treatment plan. "I felt more in control with the aid of the guid…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute A new study shows that chronic physiologic "wear and tear" from stress, known as all…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Findings from a recent population-based cohort study show that Black women diagnosed with breast cancer who also have central obesity, which means excess…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center The National Cancer Institute has funded a project led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center to assess the impact of environmental exposures on cancer risk for peo…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Hossein Borghaei, DO, MS, chief of the Division of Thoracic Medical Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center, has been named one of three winners of the second annu…

Stanford Cancer Institute Women newly diagnosed with breast or ovarian cancer who are also carriers of cancer-associated mutations like BRCA1 or BRCA2 are no more likely to die of their tumors…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent University of Kentucky College of Medicine study found that young adults from vulnerable communities are more likely to be exposed to tobacco marketing in thei…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center New research from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has uncovered genetic factors other than human leukocyte antigen compatibility that signific…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A single common genetic mutation may hold the key to making immunotherapy more effective against gliomas, according to new mouse model findings from …

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute Brian Koss, PhD, a researcher with the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, is a recipient of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Di…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Edna "Eti" Cukierman, PhD, co-director of the Marvin & Concetta Greenberg Pancreatic Cancer Institute, has been named a senior ed…

University of Florida Health Cancer Center University of Florida Health researcher Naykky Singh Ospina, MD, is leading a team developing a conversation aid to be used during what can be a chal…

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center have surveyed cancer doctors to identify differences in physician attitudes and beliefs that may contribute to …

University of Virginia Cancer Center Jamie Zoellner, PhD, RD, has assumed the role of co-lead of the Cancer Prevention and Population Health (CPH) program. She will work with Li Li, MD, PhD, w…

Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson Health (SKCC) welcomes Marcia Brose, MD, PhD, as vice chair of medical oncology and SKCC regional chief…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Matthew Poppe, MD, physician-scientist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, received a grant from the National Cancer Institute to advance his rese…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey A recent consensus statement from the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group Breast Cancer Subcommittee assessed data on proton therapy for breast cancer, pr…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Walter Lawrence, Jr., MD, who died in November at age 96, was respected and beloved for his expertise as a surgical oncologist. He ran a surgical hospita…

AACI cancer center directors are invited to submit nominations for the 2022 Champion for Cures Award. AACI established the award in 2018 to recognize an individual or individuals who, through direct …

Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Recognizing Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center’s enduring commitment to addressing the inequities that perpetuate cervical cancer …

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Women living in rural areas are less likely to follow the recommended screenings for colorectal cancer. However, they are just as likely as women living …

On Wednesday, November 30, the United States House of Representatives passed the PREVENT HPV Cancers Act by voice vote. The bill, lead sponsored by Representatives Kathy Castor (D-FL) and Kim Schrier…

UK Markey Cancer Center A new training program at the University of Kentucky will help develop the next generation of scientists. Funded by a grant from the National Cancer Institute, Addressi…

University of Virginia Cancer Center Hao Jiang, PhD, and his collaborators have revealed why a mutation in the UTX gene disrupts cells’ ability to suppress tumors. The gene product, they found…

University of Virginia Cancer Center The University of Virginia Cancer Center and Cancer Center Without Walls Southwest Virginia Community Advisory Board has launched a program to cut tobacco …

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center Following a national search, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center has promoted Emese Zsiros, MD, PhD, FACOG, to lead its Department of Gynecologic …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute member and director of the Duke Center for Applied Genomics and Precision Medicine Geoffrey Ginsburg, MD, PhD, will …

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center A new study from University of Michigan School of Public Health and Rogel Cancer Center will describe and quantify the impact of known and suspected …

Siteman Cancer Center Washington University researchers at Siteman Cancer Center have received a $17 million Cancer Moonshot grant to address disparities in cancer research, treatment, and out…

"These guides build bi-directional communication between our providers and their patients. We’ve seen an increase in patient retention and overall patient satisfaction." - Terry T. Tsue, MD, FACS, Vi…

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and RWJBarnabas Health have partnered with Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey to launch a collaborative …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center D. Wade Clapp, MD, is leading an $11.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in which he and others across the c…

The Clinical Research Services (CRS) department in the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center is expanding and is currently hiring for multiple Clinical Research, Regulatory, and Research Nurse positi…

Stanford Cancer Institute Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine have devised a tool to examine how cells behave and interact in various environm…

Moffitt Cancer Center Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center are trying to improve the personalization of radiation therapy through computer modeling. In a new study, they model how interactions…

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center neuroscientist Eric Holland, MD, PhD, has received a National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award. The seven-ye…

University of Illinois Cancer Center Nurse Practitioner Mary Pasquinelli, MS, APRN, of the UI Health Lung Screening Program, received a national leadership award from the Prevent Cancer Foundation f…

Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center In 2015, Julio Aguirre-Ghiso, PhD, and his team identified the receptor NR2F1, present in the nuclei of tumor cells, as a master regulator of tu…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center In a multidisciplinary collaboration, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have identified …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Combining the immunotherapy agent durvalumab with the chemotherapy agents pemetrexed and cisplatin or carboplatin may prov…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital has appointed Oren J. Becher, MD, as the chief of the Jack Martin Division of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology. A …

Siteman Cancer Center Sam Bhayani, MD, a Washington University urologic oncologist and researcher at Siteman Cancer Center, has been named head of the Division of Urologic Surgery at Washingto…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Younger B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors (B-HNL) had a higher relative risk of developing age-related diseases than older B-NHL survivo…

UK Markey Cancer Center A recent study shows that patients with non-small cell lung cancer reviewed by the UK Markey Cancer Center’s Molecular Tumor Board experience improved outcomes, even if…

WVU Cancer Institute Mark McLaughlin, PhD—a researcher with the WVU Cancer Institute and Modulation Therapeutics Inc.—and his colleagues are developing a cancer treatment that zeroes in on the…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center City of Hope has opened of a first-in-human clinical trial evaluating the use of a cancer-killing oncolytic virus to treat patients with metastatic tri…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine A study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine can help scientists make reasonable predictions of what genomic …

Stanford Cancer Institute Stanford researchers have developed a synthetic, tumor-targeting molecule that promotes immune activation and tumor regression in laboratory mice after it’s injected …

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Leptin, a molecule produced by fat cells, appears to cancel out the effects of the estrogen-blocking therapy tamoxifen, a …

Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center Ruth “Rikki” Kutcher Goldstein has made a $2 million gift to support cancer research at Indiana University School of Medici…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine For years much about anaplastic lymphoma kinase—its role in the body, which molecules interact with it, what it looks like—has remained unknown, lim…

USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center To correlate gene expression signatures with cancer progression and chemotherapy resistance, a team of scientists led by Rong Lu, PhD, from USC and Akil …

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center More people with advanced melanoma survive for two years or more when they receive a combination of two immunotherapy drugs given before a combi…

VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and Virginia State University have received a "team science” grant from the National Cancer Institu…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center Researchers at the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center have identified a drug that, when given along with a bone marrow transplant, dro…

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah In a new study, researchers from Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of California San Francisco explain how common moles and melan…

The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute Bridget Oppong, MD, has been appointed deputy director of the Center for Cancer Heal…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Duke Cancer Institute member Hayley Moss, MD, MBA, has joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' National Oncology Program Office as…

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has appointed Wendy Brewster, MD, PhD, as associate director …

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Sonya Reid, MD, MPH, is a recipient of an NRG Oncology Underserved Minority Scholars Award. She is one of three inaugural recipients of the award, which was establish…

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center Like locking the door but opening windows, an immune checkpoint therapy temporarily slows glioblastoma progression but fails to establish an effective …

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Doctors can safely lower the dose of cancer treatment such as chemotherapy without impacting survival for adults older than 70 who are at high risk for tox…

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine The debilitating arm and shoulder disability and pain that some women who have had breast cancer surgery experience as a …

UMMC Cancer Center and Research Institute Thy Huynh, MD, has joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center as an assistant professor of dermatology and pediatrics. She will be a member o…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health In Vino Vita, Fox Chase Cancer Center’s signature fundraising event, was held on October 30 at the National Constitution Center, and raised over $1.5 mil…

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center In acknowledgment of strong advocacy for its staff members and the launch of a program to enhance their mental health and well-being, Roswell Park Comprehens…

Fox Chase Cancer Center, Temple Health Fox Chase Cancer Center has been recognized for excellence in patient care with two Press Ganey Awards, the Pinnacle of Excellence Award and the Guardian of Ex…

UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute The Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation, along with its partners National Medical Fellowships and the American Association for Cancer Research, select…

Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone NYU Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center opened a new state-of-the-art center to treat people with blood cancers, i…

Stanford Cancer Institute Steven Coutre, MD, a professor of hematology at the Stanford School of Medicine, died November 9 in Palo Alto, California, from complications of leukemia and COVID-19…

Yale Cancer Center, Yale School of Medicine Several Yale Cancer Center faculty have authored chapters in a newly released book, A New Deal For Cancer: Lessons from a 50 Year War. In recognitio…

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center A new open-access book written by experts in the field of oncology, hematology, and stem cell transplantation—The Comprehensive Cancer Cen…

The Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Jose Javier Bravo-Cordero, PhD, and colleagues have reported on their findings that show how cancer cells remain dormant for years after they leave a …

Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah Theresa L. Werner, MD, has been appointed to the position of senior director of clinical research. She has served as clinical trials office …

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center The Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium has named Christopher Li, MD, PhD, its first associate director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…

University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center University of Michigan Regent Ron Weiser has committed $30 million to Michigan Medicine to establish an innovative, patient-focused program in prosta…

Legorreta Cancer Center at Brown University A $25 million gift from life sciences entrepreneur and investor Pablo Legorreta and his wife, Almudena, will advance a plan to transform Brown Unive…

Moffitt Cancer Center With a transformational philanthropic gift of $15 million from the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation, Moffitt Cancer Center has announced that in 2022 it will initiate…

UK Markey Cancer Center Launched in the summer of 2021 with funding from the American Cancer Society, SHE in Oncology empowers Kentucky high school students who identify as female with experie…

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have discovered a nanoparticle released from cells, called a "supermere," which contains enzymes, proteins, …

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center UC San Francisco has launched the Baszucki Lymphoma Therapeutics Initiative to increase the effectiveness and availability of chimeric anti…

The University of Kansas Cancer Center Socioeconomic status may be a factor when it comes to using telemedicine, researchers have observed. Among 16,000 people with a new cancer diagnosis, tho…

Cedars-Sinai Cancer A research team co-led by Cedars-Sinai has created a method for using widely available data to identify proteins that could play key roles in tumor formation. Called master…

City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center Researchers at City of Hope have identified a pathway that explains how mutated cancer cells can continue to replicate and become resistant to oncology…

Wilmot Cancer Institute, UR Medicine Researchers at the University of Rochester Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience and Rochester Institute of Technology have received a U.S. patent for techn…

Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins astrophysicist, Alexander Szalay, PhD, and Kimmel Cancer Center pathologist Janis Taube, MD, MSc, received a Life …

Duke Cancer Institute, Duke University Medical Center Although Black lung cancer patients are more likely to die from their disease than white patients, they have better outcomes than whites w…