Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

BY: DAGNY STUART AND MELISSA MARINO A blood test used to determine the level of inflammation in the body may offer some help in assessing colon cancer risk, according to results of a study presented by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center’s Gong Yang, M.D., MPH, during the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) [...]

BY: MIMI ECKHARD It can be called the lung cancer paradox: A 65-year-old man has a small lung nodule, too small and difficult to locate without performing a thoracotomy — a major surgery with significant risk of complications. Since the nodule is small, the doctors wait, conducting CT scans every six months looking for any [...]

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center have received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS). The award recognizes cancer programs that strive for excellence in providing quality care to cancer patients, and was granted following an on-site inspection of the cancer program by a physician surveyor in 2009.

With the launch of a new streamlined call center and the near-completion of a major expansion and renovation of its Henry-Joyce Cancer Clinic, the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has embarked on its first advertising campaign in nine years. The campaign’s goal is to assure that more residents of Middle Tennessee are aware of the special resource they have in Vanderbilt-Ingram as a Comprehensive Cancer Center designated by the National Cancer Institute — one of only 40 in the United States and the only one in Tennessee that treats patients of all ages, with all cancer types.

Here are the latest cancer science news nuggets from the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, first published in the VUMC Reporter’s Aliquots.

BY: DAGNY STUART Crunchy vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage have been shown to protect against some forms of cancer. Now, a study led by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers indicates genetic makeup may influence how well those vegetables protect individual patients. Cruciferous vegetables contain isothiocyanates, which may inhibit the development of tumors through multiple mechanisms. [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Bruce Roth, M.D., professor of Medicine and Urologic Surgery at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been honored with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Statesman Award. Recipients are recognized for their extraordinary volunteer service, dedication and commitment to ASCO and have each given 20 years of volunteer service to the cancer society. [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Carol Evans, M.D., has joined Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center as assistant professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Her practice interests include breast cancer, colorectal cancer, upper gastrointestinal cancers, pancreatic cancer, lymphomas, multiple myeloma and benign hematology. Evans plans to move her practice to VICC’s new Green Hills cancer clinic which [...]

Vanderbilt will hold its annual head and neck cancer screening and education event Friday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., during Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week. Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Vanderbilt Bill Wilkerson Center for Otolaryngology and Communication Sciences are partnering with the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance to provide [...]

BY: DAGNY STUART Current and former politicians, a Nashville philanthropist and several entertainers were recognized for their professional and civic achievements during the second annual Honors Gala benefiting the T.J. Martell Foundation, which provides funds for cancer, leukemia and AIDS research. The fundraising event was held at the Hutton Hotel in Nashville. Susan Simons, a [...]