Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

BY: DAGNY STUART For archives of this program, please see: Patient Power Replay Library Page Audio stream Download MP3 William Pao, M.D., Ph.D., Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and Jeffrey Sosman, M.D., professor of Medicine, will give an update on Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s personalized medicine initiatives during a Patient Power Webcast, Tuesday, Aug. 25, [...]

BY: LAURIE HOLLOWAY Fighting childhood cancer is a hair-razing endeavor for a foundation that’s made two new grants to researchers at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. The St. Baldrick’s Foundation coordinates worldwide head-shaving events, with volunteer “shaves” raising money to support pediatric cancer research. Since 2000, over 100,000 head-shavings have raised more [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Carlos Arteaga, M.D., has been named the first recipient of the Donna S. Hall Chair in Breast Cancer at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC). The newly created chair is funded through a $1.5 million gift from John and Donna Hall of Lexington, Ky., and was created to support the research efforts of an [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt cancer epidemiologist Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., has received a MERIT Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for his research on women and cancer. The MERIT (Method to Extend Research in Time) awards provide long-term support to investigators with impressive records of scientific achievement in research areas of special [...]

Jeanne Moses didn’t have a history of cancer in her family. She didn’t have symptoms—just backache and a bit of weight loss. Nothing unusual for a 45-year-old mother working two jobs. So she was stunned when her doctor delivered the news: Jeanne Moses—technical writer, theatrical costumer, daughter of the director, emeritus, of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer [...]

Patient advocate and cancer survivor Andrew Schorr comments in his blog about the role of cancer survivorship programs in improving lives of patients after they’ve completed their treatment. Schorr interviewed Dr. Debra Friedman, who directs Vanderbilt’s new REACH for Survivorship Program on his webcast on July 28. He also spoke with Dr. David Carbone, a [...]