Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Visit the Vanderbilt Center for Women’s Health website. As recently as the 1940s, cervical cancer was once among the most common cancers among women and a leading cause of cancer death. Thanks to the development in the 1950s of the Pap test, which tests cells from the cervix for pre-cancerous or cancerous changes, the incidence [...]

Wendell G. (Dell) Yarbrough, M.D., associate professor of Otolaryngology and Cancer Biology, has been awarded two federal Challenge Grants for the study of head and neck cancer. The prestigious two-year grants, totaling more than $1.4 million, are part of the federal government’s stimulus package and are funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of [...]

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women after skin cancer. Screening mammography has played an important role in the early detection and treatment of women with this form of cancer.

By Leigh MacMillan (from the Fall 09 Momentum) As a child, I had a tailor. Of sorts – she was my grandma. It was magical to see her transform folds of fabric into dresses, shirts or Halloween costumes. In my preteen years, I began to protest the measuring and fitting process. I didn’t like her [...]

BY: BILL SNYDER People who would like to participate in research studies now can connect with researchers throughout the country by joining a first of its kind, online “matching system,” ResearchMatch.org. Fifty-two leading research institutions in 26 states, including Vanderbilt University, are participating in the launch of the first national volunteer recruitment registry, which was [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Participants in the annual T.J. Martell Foundation winter fundraiser for cancer research can shed their ski parkas and don bathing suits this December, as the nonprofit foundation will host “Country on the Beach” instead of the long-running “Country in the Rockies,” this year. Columbia recording duo Montgomery Gentry will host the annual [...]

BY: LESLIE HAST Many breast cancer patients clear the first hurdles of chemotherapy and surgery only to face another little-known hurdle — lymphedema. There is currently only one standard treatment for this chronic condition in which the lymph drainage system is compromised and fluid accumulates in the body, but Sheila Ridner, Ph.D., M.S.N., is investigating [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., professor of Medicine, Cell and Developmental Biology and Cancer Biology, has been awarded nearly $1 million in federal stimulus funds to study polymorphisms or genetic variations among minorities with non-small cell lung cancer. Carbone and his colleagues plan to use the two-year grant from the National Cancer Institute [...]

BY: BILL SNYDER Vanderbilt University scientists have received 182 federal “stimulus” grants totaling more than $79 million to support new and existing research projects, buy major equipment and hire additional personnel. The two-year grants were provided under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation, [...]