Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Well-known daytime television actor Anthony Herrera will be the featured guest speaker at this year’s Cardiology & Oncology International Symposium, Thursday, October 7, at the Sheraton Nashville Downtown Hotel. This year’s Cardiology & Oncology International Symposium is designed to help medical professionals identify and screen cancer patients for cardiovascular disease and manage treatment for cancer [...]

Every year, we get asked about participating in Lee National Denim Day, which has been raising money to fight breast cancer $5 at a time for 14 years. And ever year, we’ve declined because the concept is that if you donate $5 to the cause, you get to wear jeans to work on that Friday. [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) is gearing up for Light the Night, a fund-raising event for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Thursday, Oct. 7, at LP Field. Vanderbilt University will field a team for the visually exciting event which supports the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s activities to fund medical research, support government advocacy and patient assistance [...]

Pilocytic astrocytoma, the most common type of pediatric brain tumor, has an excellent 10-year survival rate and is often viewed as a benign lesion. However, survival and progression-free survival rates fall over time and survivors often suffer later consequences related to disease or treatment. Sarah Rush, M.D., Michael Cooper, M.D., and colleagues in the Vanderbilt [...]

Mutations in the BRCA1 gene have been implicated in the development of inherited breast cancers. The BRCA1 protein participates in processes including repair of DNA breaks, DNA replication, and cell death. BRCA1 moves between the cell nucleus and cytoplasm, and Fen Xia, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues have proposed that active “shuttling” between cellular compartments may [...]

It is widely known that a healthy lifestyle that includes not smoking, limiting alcohol intake, and maintaining a proper weight reduces disease risk. In the journal PLoS Medicine, Wei Zheng, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues at Vanderbilt University Medical Center now report results from a large study quantifying the impact of combining healthy lifestyle factors. They [...]

Beginning Sept. 20, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) will begin consolidating additional breast cancer services, including chemotherapy, at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks. In addition to undergoing surveillance and diagnostic testing at the Vanderbilt Breast Center, breast cancer patients will be able to see their physicians and receive chemotherapy in one convenient location, without moving back [...]

Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks will introduce a new Women’s Wellness Series this fall, with sessions on breast cancer risk, heart disease prevention and advances in dermatology. Drs. Ingrid Meszoely and John Huff of the Vanderbilt Breast Center will kick off the free series on Tuesday, Sept. 21, with “Developing News about Breast Health: Keeping [...]

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, honoring the more than 40,000 children currently being treated in the U.S. as well as the estimated 270,000 childhood cancer survivors.

The fall race event season for cancer charities is about to begin and organizers are set to kick-off Vanderbilt’s Race for the Cure team-building plans. Faculty and staff, as well as patients and cancer survivors, are invited to join Team Vanderbilt for the 19th annual Greater Nashville Race for the Cure, Saturday, Oct. 9, at [...]