Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Lung Cancer Awareness Month (LCAM) is a national campaign dedicated to increasing attention to lung cancer issues. This year more than 200,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer. More than 160,000 will die from the disease making it America’s NUMBER ONE cancer killer for both men and women. Each year lung cancer kills more [...]

by Dagny Stuart Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has received renewed funding for its Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) in lung cancer. The Vanderbilt-Ingram Lung SPORE, which was first funded in 2001, will receive $2.3 million a year for another five years from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It is one of a handful of cancer [...]

by Dagny Stuart Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has launched a $10 million capital campaign to fund expansion of the Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic. Construction has already begun on the project to dramatically expand the clinic and provide a more comfortable, healing environment for patients and their families, in addition to improving research areas. “We are making headway [...]

By Jan Rosemergy, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development Stress is the focus of Bruce Compas’s research program—and it’s difficult to imagine many things more stressful than a child having cancer. More children are surviving than ever before, but there’s evidence that the aggressive treatments necessary to save lives are affecting children’s long-term [...]

Frances Preston, music industry icon and charter member of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Board of Overseers, has been awarded the Leadership Music Dale Franklin Award for 2007. During an event at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville Preston was honored for her leadership and dedication to the music industry during her long career as former president [...]

Women who receive silicone gel-filled breast implants do not have a higher risk of breast cancer or other cancers and do not experience lower survival rates after breast cancer diagnosis according to a new report published in the November issue of Annals of Plastic Surgery.

United Nashville Partners Against Cancer: UN-PAC Meharry-Vanderbilt-TSU Cancer Partnership Progreso Community Center invite the Nashville community to a presentation of the Hispanic Health In Nashville 2007 La Salud Hispana En Nashville 2007 needs assessment survey results Thursday, November 1, 2007 6:30pm Progreso Community Center 2720 Nolensville Pike, Suite 210 Map to Center Google Map or [...]

by Dagny Stuart Utpal Davé, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, has been chosen to receive a Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Development Award to study the role of the HTLV-1 retrovirus in Adult T-cell leukemia, one of the few malignancies caused by a retrovirus. “These are unique viruses that can insert into the [...]

The new Report to the Nation On the Status of Cancer says that fewer Americans are dying from cancer, but the number of Tennesseans dying of the disease is going up. “We can take great pride in national figures, but we really can’t have that same sense of pride for Tennessee,” said Dr. Mace Rothenberg, [...]

Pam Martin, Lab Manager for the Department of Cancer Biology and a breast cancer survivor, was one of two recipients of Vanderbilt University’s Commodore Award.