Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

If you are a fan of Desperate Housewives, you may be familiar with the recent lung cancer storyline for Karen McCluskey, the nosy and outspoken neighbor played by actress Kathryn Joosten. Her experience was not very realistic and the storyline way too brief, but one piece of the story was very real: you don’t have to smoke to get lung cancer. Learn more about lung cancer in never smokers and what’s being done to uncover the causes.

BY: DAGNY STUART Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s David Carbone, M.D., Ph.D., has received the Dr. David Jablons “Asclepios” Award for his commitment to innovative research. The award was presented during the Simply the Best Ever Dinner Gala by the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation. Addario is a five-year lung cancer survivor and founder of the [...]

BY: SARAH PLUMRIDGE Sarah Kurley, a graduate student in Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, looks forward to attending the 60th Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, this summer. During the annual meeting, Kurley will join young researchers from around the world to interact with Nobel laureates from the fields of chemistry, physics, and [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART David Gius, M.D., Ph.D., has joined Vanderbilt as associate professor of Radiation Oncology and Pediatrics. Gius was associate program director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford/Cambridge Scholars and the Trans-NIH MD/PhD Partnership Program, as well as chief of the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Molecular Radiation Oncology Section. He was also [...]

Relay For Life is an event brought to you by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and takes place in different communities throughout the world. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center at Franklin is a presenting sponsor for the Williamson County Relay for Life, and will field teams at that relay and the one in Davidson County. We would love to have you as part of either one or both of Vanderbilt’s teams.

BY: MELISSA MARINO Gregory R. Mundy, M.D., director of the Vanderbilt Center in Bone Biology, died Feb. 25 after an extended illness. Dr. Mundy — also the John A. Oates Chair in Translational Medicine and professor of Medicine, Pharmacology, Orthopaedics and Cancer Biology — came to Vanderbilt in 2006 to establish the center, which focused [...]

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month, a time to sound the alarm about the third most common cancer among men and women and encourage early detection through screening. But it’s also a good time to show support for colon cancer survivors and to revisit a webinar first offered by the Colon Cancer Alliance and Vanderbilt-Ingram [...]