Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, in conjunction with the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, is opening a special clinic to serve those cancer survivors.

This year’s Relay for Life of East Nashville event will give participants the chance to spend the night at LP Field on the banks of the Cumberland River.

Carlos Arteaga, M.D., professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology, is the recipient of the 2009 Gianni Bonadonna Breast Cancer Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). The award is named for Italian clinical investigator Gianni Bonadonna, M.D., who is credited for first reporting the use of adjuvant chemotherapy to treat micrometastatic disease in [...]

A Three-Part Telephone Education Workshop Program This free series, made possible by support from the National Cancer Institute and Lance Armstrong Foundation, offers cancer survivors, their families, friends and health care professionals practical information to help them cope with concerns and issues that arise after treatment ends. Part I entitled, Managing the Stress of Survivorship, [...]

By Melissa Marino A chemical component of licorice may offer a new approach to preventing colorectal cancer without the adverse side effects of other preventive therapies, Vanderbilt University Medical Center researchers report. In the study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Raymond Harris, M.D., Ming-Zhi Zhang, M.D., and colleagues show that inhibiting the enzyme [...]

Today’s Tennessean has a feature artilce on VICC’s Hal Moses. “As the founding director of the Vanderbilt Cancer Center, he was charged with the task of creating a single place that would bring together cancer research, treatment, education and outreach. The hope was that the merger of medicine and research would help eliminate suffering caused [...]

By Dagny Stuart Harold L. (Hal) Moses, M.D., director emeritus of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and director of the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories, will receive the Lifetime Medical Research Award during the inaugural T.J. Martell Foundation/Nashville Honors Gala. The black-tie event, to be held March 25 at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, will honor four distinguished individuals [...]

Story from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network A roundtable dedicated to cancer survivorship at the NCCN 14th Annual Conference highlighted the need for transition care plans and improved physician/patient communication for cancer survivors. Sam Donaldson of ABC News moderated the lively discussion between cancer advocates, survivors, and clinicians that touched upon the host of issues [...]

Getting a screening mammogram is as easy as going to the mall — the old 100 Oaks Mall, that is, which is now home to the Vanderbilt Breast Center One Hundred Oaks.

The Vanderbilt Breast Center is leaving its current location in the Villages at Vanderbilt, and will reopen with an abbreviated appointment schedule Monday, March 9, at Vanderbilt Health at One Hundred Oaks.