Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Fox17 Nashville profiles Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., who has been named to an international cancer research “Dream Team” investigating a new genetic marker in women’s cancers. See Fox17 story and video.

By Melissa Marino Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers have uncovered a gene signature that may help predict clinical outcomes in certain types of breast cancer. In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Harold (Hal) Moses, M.D., and colleagues report that this gene signature — which is associated with the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) signaling pathway — correlates [...]

By Bill Snyder Stephen Fesik, Ph.D., internationally known for structural biology research and cancer drug discovery at Abbott Laboratories, has joined Vanderbilt Medical Center as professor of Biochemistry. Fesik will lead the cancer drug discovery initiatives of the Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology and the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. “I have looked at the possibility of [...]

Patient Advocate also Included on Research Panel Funded by Entertainment Industry Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D., professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology and director of the Breast Cancer Program at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named to one of the international cancer research “Dream Teams” funded by Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C), a charitable initiative of [...]

By Dagny Stuart Download the audio Stream the audio When Hollywood actress Christina Applegate shared her breast cancer story, including her inherited risk for the disease, many young women were left wondering about their own risk. Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women in the United States. If caught in its earliest stages, [...]

By Dagny Stuart Coping with a cancer diagnosis can be a scary and emotional ordeal. Time spent in doctors’ offices, chemotherapy chairs and radiation suites often reinforces feelings of loneliness for cancer patients and their families. So Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has launched the Hope Connection, a free confidential support program for adult cancer patients and [...]

Cancer patients at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center now have expanded access to chemotherapy services at the Cancer Center. The Vanderbilt-Ingram Chemotherapy Infusion Clinic has moved to renovated space on the second floor of The Vanderbilt Clinic. The new clinic has been in the planning and development stage for more than two years. Several committees, comprised of [...]

By Dagny Stuart Hallahan takes Washington University post Dennis Hallahan, M.D., chair of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Vanderbilt, has accepted a new position as chair of Radiation Oncology at Washington University in St. Louis. “Vanderbilt is a wonderful place, a research powerhouse, and it would take a lot to pull me away from [...]

By Dagny Stuart The wait is almost over for cancer patients needing expanded access to chemotherapy services at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. The VICC Chemotherapy Infusion Clinic is slated to move to renovated space in The Vanderbilt Clinic May 4. The new Chemotherapy Infusion Clinic will occupy the space that previously housed the second-floor Henry-Joyce Cancer [...]

By Melissa Marino Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators have uncovered a mechanism that helps explain how lithium, a drug widely used to treat bipolar mood disorder, also protects the brain from damage that occurs during radiation treatments. In the May 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues show that [...]