Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has opened a new radiation oncology treatment suite featuring stereotactic radiosurgery, technology that provides more precise targeting of tumors and faster delivery of the correct dose of radiation for patients diagnosed with benign or malignant tumors. VICC’s new Novalis Tx radiosurgery unit is the first of its kind in [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART A new drug which targets a genetic mutation found in more than 50 percent of melanoma cases, 10 percent to 15 percent of colorectal tumors and 8 percent of other solid tumors, caused tumor shrinkage and extended progression-free survival among patients during a recent Phase 1 clinical trial. Igor Puzanov, M.D., assistant [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Screening mammograms are once again available on the Vanderbilt Medical Center campus following the installation of new digital mammography screening equipment in the Clinic Radiology suite on the first floor of The Vanderbilt Clinic (TVC), with check-in at room 1630. The TVC mammography clinic has reserved 20 openings per day for screening [...]

Cancer survivors, family members, friends and health professionals gathered on Sunday, June 14, at the Vanderbilt University Student Life Center to celebrate survivorship and share their stories at the annual “Living in Full Bloom” event

BY: MELISSA MARINO Jennifer Pietenpol, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been named one of 15 new members of the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. The society — the first of its kind in the nation — inducts former postdoctoral fellows, postdoctoral degree recipients, house staff and junior or visiting faculty who [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have been granted three-year accreditation with commendation by the Commission on Cancer (CC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). The accreditation program sets quality-of-care standards for cancer programs and reviews the programs to ensure they conform to those standards. Accreditation is given only to [...]

US News & World Report has ranked the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt among the nation’s elite in six pediatric specialties, including pediatric oncology. The Vanderbilt Childhood Cancer Program is a non-profit, regional referral center for pediatric cancers, and provides both the latest in standard of care and innovative new therapies under investigation [...]

Singer-songwriter Tricia Walker believes great songs happen when songwriters seek to find the courage to be vulnerable in exposing their deepest feelings on the page. Cancer survivors, family members and professional caregivers will have a chance to express their own deep feelings about living with cancer when their songs are performed, Friday, June 26

Cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and John Seffrin of the American Cancer Society share their thoughts about President Obama’s ambitious health care goals and his boldest goal of all: conquering cancer. Read the column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution

WSMV-Channel 4 interviews one of the first patients treated with the latest generation of radiation oncology technology. The new stereotactic radiosurgery approach, offered at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, provides more precise delivery of radiation over a shorter period of time than other technologies. View the video: http://www.wsmv.com/video/19729227/index.html