Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

by Dagny Stuart It is not uncommon for growths to develop on female ovaries, but until recently physicians couldn’t determine if the growth was a benign cyst or a cancerous tumor without an invasive procedure like surgery. Now, a group of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers, led by Arthur Fleischer, M.D., professor of Radiology and Radiological [...]

by Dagny Stuart A study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers revealed that some Iraqi children diagnosed with leukemia paid a steep price for economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations against the Iraqi government. The U.N.-ordered sanctions were imposed in 1990 after the invasion of Kuwait and remained in effect until 2003, and during [...]

WZTV FOX 17/Nashville recently aired a five part series on simple ways to prolong your life. It was based on a study from the National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Act Now, Live Longer, Part 5 covers colonoscopies. “14-thousand lives would be saved each year … if 90 percent of adults age 50 and up … [...]

WZTV FOX 17/Nashville recently aired a five part series on simple ways to prolong your life. It was based on a study from the National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Act Now, Live Longer, Part 4 covers smoking. “42-thousand lives would be saved each year if health professionals told 90 percent of smokers to quit and [...]

WZTV FOX 17/Nashville recently aired a five part series on simple ways to prolong your life. It was based on a study from the National Commission on Prevention Priorities. Act Now, Live Longer, Part 3 covers mammograms. “A recent study by the national commission on prevention priorities says nearly 4-thousand additional lives would be saved … if 90 percent of women 40 and up, had a mammogram in the past 2 years.”

By Dagny Stuart (from the Spring 08 Momentum) Sometimes an accident can be a good thing. Sometimes an accident saves lives. Just ask Teresa Lundberg, a Mt. Juliet, Tenn., cancer survivor who believes her life was saved because her breast cancer was treated with a drug called Herceptin. “My mom dying of lung cancer was [...]

By Dagny Stuart (from the Spring 08 Momentum) The South is known for many things – hot, steamy summers, iced tea laced with sugar and friendly people with a tendency to welcome strangers. But beneath the veneer of Southern hospitality and gracious living lurks a silent killer. Cancer is more prevalent in the South, and [...]

U.S. News & World Report is listing Vanderbilt Medical Center on its “Honor Roll” of hospitals – a list reserved for a select group of institutions labeled by the magazine as the “best of the best.” Vanderbilt ranks 15th in the nation in the highly anticipated 2008 issue of “America’s Best Hospitals.” Only 19 hospitals [...]

By Leigh MacMillan (from the Spring 08 Momentum) Every gardener knows that to truly eliminate a weed, you have to pull out the root. Nip the weed off at the surface only, and in time it will grow back. Such might also be the case with cancer – treatments aimed at shrinking tumors may be [...]