Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

The first annual “Dress in Blue Day” to promote colon cancer awareness was held Friday, March 6.

The Jim Ayers Institute for Precancer Detection and Diagnosis announces a new website. http://www.vicc.org/jimayersinstitute/ The Ayers Institute was established in the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center on July 1, 2005. The website describes the mission of the Ayers Institute, concepts and technologies employed in cancer biomarker development and current research projects. The website also announces the Ayers [...]

The country music group Blackhawk performed for patients in the chemotherapy infusion clinic of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. See the Video from Channel 4

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have identified a new genetic hot spot for breast cancer. Reporting in Nature Genetics, Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues have identified a region on chromosome 6 that is strongly associated with breast cancer susceptibility in Asian women.

By Dagny Stuart Donald Mobley spends most days on the golf course in his hometown of Evansville, Ind. But last July, the 68-year-old Alcoa retiree realized something was wrong. “I just noticed my wind was getting shorter and I was not as strong,” said Mobley. His family doctor ordered several scans which revealed a mass [...]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been receiving reports of illnesses caused by a type of bacterium known as Salmonella enterica, strain Typhimurium. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has confirmed that peanut butter and peanut paste produced by the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) are sources of the illnesses.  Due [...]

By Dagny Stuart The umbilical cord is the gateway for nourishment to babies in the womb. Now the remnants of that gateway can serve as a convenient exit ramp for unwanted tumors and organs. S. Duke Herrell, M.D., associate professor of Urologic Surgery, has performed Vanderbilt Medical Center’s first kidney removal through a single laparoscopic [...]

Vandana Gupta Abramson, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as an assistant professor of Medicine.

Jennifer Woods, R.N., M.B.A., manager of the Cancer Patient Care Center at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been elected president of the Middle Tennessee Chapter of the 130-member Oncology Nursing Society. The national Oncology Nursing Society provides nurses with educational and certification programs. But it is the opportunity to join other oncology nurses to influence [...]

A team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators has developed a group of chemical compounds that could represent a new class of drugs for treating cancer. The compounds are the first selective inhibitors of the protein phospholipase D (PLD), an enzyme that has been implicated in multiple human cancers including breast, renal, gastric and colorectal. [...]