Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

A new study by Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers found that women who survived childhood cancer were more likely to experience stillbirths or a baby death when they tried to have children, especially if the women had been exposed to high doses of pelvic radiation during cancer treatment. The study led by John Boice Jr., Sc.D., [...]

Rebecca Cook, Ph.D., assistant professor of Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, has been awarded a $450,000 breast cancer research grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure, one of the world’s largest breast cancer organizations. The grant will help fund Cook’s investigation of targeted therapies for breast cancer. “One of the greatest advances in [...]

F. Peter (Fred) Guengerich, Ph.D., interim chair of the Department of Biochemistry, is the recipient of the 2010 R.T. Williams Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award, presented by the International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX). Xenobiotics are compounds that are foreign to an organism, such as drugs, food additives and environmental pollutants. The award, which [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center is gearing up for the 2010 Light the Night, an awareness- and fund-raising event for the Leukemia & Lymphma Society, and we invite you to join us.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center and affiliated VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System are the first in the nation to perform a specialized PET/CT scan to successfully locate the presence of tumors. The improved imaging allows surgeons to more easily locate and remove cancerous tumors, according to Ronald Walker, M.D., professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences. Walker [...]

For cancer patients, quality of life is as important a consideration as quantity of life. Now, for patients whose cancers have spread (metastasized) to the spine, a new “minimally invasive” approach to surgery can make it a more reasonable option than the previously required invasive procedure to ease sometimes excruciating and debilitating back pain. “For [...]

Otis Rickman, D.O., assistant professor of Medicine and Thoracic Surgery, has performed thousands of bronchoscopies; after all it’s his medical specialty. But VUMC’s director of Bronchoscopy had never undergone the procedure, which involves threading a flexible scope through a patient’s nose, down the airway and into the lungs. The lighted bronchoscope makes it possible for [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center once again is listed among the nation’s best in cancer care by U.S. News and World Report in its 2010 ranking, released this week. It is the only hospital in Tennessee to make the list of best hospitals for cancer care, and the second-highest ranked center in the Southeast. Overall, Vanderbilt University [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center researchers are studying the potential impact of yoga on cancer survivors’ quality of life.

The incidence of breast cancer among women in Asian countries is less than a third of the number diagnosed in most North American and European countries, but breast cancer cases are starting to spike in places like China, Japan, Korea and Singapore. Currently, no risk prediction model is available to identify high-risk women in these [...]