Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has added two prominent investigators. William Pao, M.D., Ph.D., has accepted a new post as associate professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, with secondary appointments in the Departments of Cancer Biology and Pathology. He also has been named assistant director of Personalized Cancer Medicine and an [...]

Tuesday, January 20, 2009, during an inaugural luncheon, Senator Ted Kennedy suffered a seizure and was transported to a Washington, D.C. area hospital. The Massachusetts Democrat has been diagnosed with and is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. Dr. Reid Thompson, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Brain Tumor Center and vice-chairman of the Department of Neurological [...]

There was a problem loading the video. It’s an invention that researchers say could radically change how doctors find skin cancer. The hand-held non-invasive cancer scanner diagnoses skin lesions on a patient, avoiding painful unnecessary biopsies. One in three people in the United States will get Basal Cell or Squamous Cell cancer, and deadly melanoma [...]

by Dagny Stuart Jeffrey Sosman, M.D., professor of Medicine, has received the first American Cancer Society Mary Hendrickson-Johnson Melanoma Professorship. The $400,000 award, which runs through the end of 2013, is given to an outstanding investigator who has made a seminal contribution that has changed the direction of cancer research and who continues to provide [...]