Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

By Leigh MacMillan Tissue growth — in normal development and in disease conditions such as cancer — relies on new blood vessels to bring in “supplies.” Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center have identified a new protein that participates in building blood vessels, a process called angiogenesis, during disease conditions, but not during normal physiological [...]

By Dagny Stuart Breast cancer patients who exercise and drink tea on a regular basis may be less likely to suffer from depression than other patients, according to a new study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Xiao Ou Shu, M.D., Ph.D. Xiaoli Chen, M.D., post-doctoral fellow, was first author of the study published in the [...]

Were you torn between listening to the State of the Union and participating in the free webinar on symptom management in colorectal cancer, featuring Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Dr. Barbara Murphy? Hearing the state of our nation won out? No worries. The webinar will be available for listening at your convenience as an archive. Registration to [...]

If you’ve been a patient at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, you may know Kim Hunter, who is affectionately known as “the Wig Lady.” And even if you haven’t met her, you probably felt the impact of her work overseeing the volunteer and support program in the Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic. The visits by cute and affectionate dogs, [...]

  The T.J. Martell Foundation will host its annual Honors Gala in Nashville on March 22, presenting awards for achievement and service to Gov. Phil Bredesen, former U.S. Senator Dr. Bill Frist, music duo Brooks & Dunn and community leader Susan Simons. The Martell Foundation supports cancer research at the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories at [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt’s H. Charles Manning, Ph.D., has received two stimulus grants from the National Cancer Institute to study imaging techniques in colorectal cancer. The grants, totaling more than $1.6 million over two years, are part of the federal government’s stimulus package funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. “We were [...]

BY: LEIGH MACMILLAN By combining the tools of medicinal chemistry and zebrafish biology, a team of Vanderbilt investigators has identified compounds that may offer therapeutic leads for bone-related diseases and cancer. The findings, reported in ACS Chemical Biology, support using zebrafish as a novel platform for drug development. In 2007, Charles Hong, M.D., Ph.D., and [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s newest pet visitor team is already bringing smiles to the faces of cancer patients and families. The duo is comprised of a miniature Australian labradoodle named Maddie and her human friend, Allan Bass Jr. “My wife’s priorities for a dog were simple — no shedding and a relatively small [...]

BY: JESSICA ENNIS A pioneer and a devoted contributor in the research and treatment of children with cancer has died. John N. Lukens Jr., M.D., the founding director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Vanderbilt University and professor, Emeritus, died at home on Jan. 12. He was 78. Dr. Lukens came to Vanderbilt in [...]

The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is joining with national and local partners to offer AWARE for All – Nashville Clinical Research Education Day on Saturday, Feb. 20.

This event, which is free and open to the public, is believed to be the first community-wide event designed to inform Middle Tennessee residents about the important role that they can play in making medical advances possible and to celebrate the contributions of clinical research participants in moving science forward.