Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

by Kathy Whitney Cardiologists from the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute are teaming up with oncologists from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center to understand why and how some cancer therapies cause heart failure and what can be done to prevent it. “Even though at least one of these chemotherapies has been around for 30 years, the [...]

A three thousand year old practice is now helping breast cancer survivors. About 213,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, but with early detection and more effective treatment, more women are surviving the disease. But it often leaves the survivors stiff and weak. At Vanderbilt Medical Center doctors and therapists have a novel [...]

by Dagny Stuart The human papillomavirus (HPV) has been implicated as a cause of cervical cancer in women, but there’s another devastating form of cancer also linked to HPV infection — head and neck cancer — and almost no one is talking about it. “Right now I think the public and most physicians have no [...]

Researchers at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have launched a pilot study to determine if a simple urine test could detect ovarian cancer, the leading cause of death from gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Currently there is no simple, reliable early screening test for ovarian cancer, which usually is found in late stages when it is [...]