Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Vanderbilt’s soccer match against Auburn on Sunday, Sept. 28, has been selected as a Power In Pink contest to raise awareness of breast cancer.

by Dagny Stuart Sheila Bates, manager of Community Outreach for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named the 2008 Health Educator of the Year by the Tennessee Public Health Association. The award is given annually to an individual who displays a true passion for helping patients and the public understand the benefits of disease prevention and [...]

Scott Sobecki has been named Informatics Manager for Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. Sobecki is responsible for the architectural design and implementation of all information technology systems at Vanderbilt-Ingram, as well as information security and management of hardware and software. Since July 1, he has been supervising programmers, LAN managers and project managers for Vanderbilt-Ingram and the [...]

by Dagny Stuart Harold L. (Hal) Moses, M.D., director emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, will be the featured luncheon speaker during the annual Celebrity Tablescapes event, sponsored by the T.J. Martell Foundation. Celebrities such as Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Al Gore and wives of the Tennessee Titans and Nashville Predators will join some of Nashville’s [...]

From Sharon Begley’s Newsweek Blog:  “This week’s story paints a fairly bleak picture of cancer therapy 37 years after the start of the war on cancer, but as I spoke to some of the nation’s leading oncologists about their memories of when they first entered the field, I was struck by two things: the real [...]

Although cancer remains a leading cause of death in America, it can take up to 12 years to bring a new anti-cancer agent before the FDA and the success rate for approval is only five to 10 percent. That means many research hours and dollars are wasted chasing avenues that will not bring fruit. The [...]

Doctors in Nashville who are working to find a cure for cancer said discoveries that could save lives are being delayed. Channel 4, WSMV has a story from last night by reporter Marc Stewart. See the video

By Cynthia Floyd Manley (first appeared in The Tennessean, Sept. 5, 2008.) What’s your cancer story? We all have one. One in two men and one in three women in this country will face a cancer diagnosis. Those men and women are you. Your spouse, your children, your parent, your sibling. They are the co-worker [...]

by Leigh MacMillan Dense, rigid surroundings make cancer cells antsy. They step up their invasive activities, building more drilling structures — called invadopodia — and boring into the matrix around them, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators report in the Sept. 9 issue of Current Biology. The findings offer a cellular explanation for an observed correlation between [...]

In partnership with the Colon Cancer Alliance, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will co-host a free educational symposium titled “Conversations about Colorectal Cancer: Finding Hope in Your Community” on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008. The event will be held at the Vanderbilt Student Life Center located at 310 25th Avenue South across from Memorial Gym. [Map to the [...]