Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Surgeons at the Vanderbilt Endocrine Surgery Center recently performed an innovative procedure, and Tennessee’s first, that is paving the way for easier, less painful removal of adrenal tumors.
By making just three small incisions to the back, James Broome, M.D., and Carmen Solorzano, M.D., were able to remove a benign tumor from a patient using a [...]

A new drug used to treat advanced melanoma patients with a specific genetic mutation in their tumors demonstrated significant tumor shrinkage in the majority of patients during a clinical trials.

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center has unveiled its newly expanded waiting area and additional clinic examination rooms for cancer patients and their families.
The new, 10,000-square-foot space is located on the first floor of The Vanderbilt Clinic, across from the existing Cancer Center reception area.
Patients and donors provided input on the space design, which has the look and [...]

Although nearly 80 percent of childhood cancer patients are surviving five years or more after diagnosis, they continue to face ongoing health risks – particularly the development of subsequent cancers.
Debra Friedman, M.D., and colleagues assessed the incidence of subsequent cancers occurring five years or more after initial diagnosis among participants in the Childhood Cancer Survivor [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center will sponsor the 19th annual Greater Nashville Race for the Cure, an awareness- and fund-raiser for  Komen for a Cure, and will field Team Vanderbilt, a team of walkers and runners representing the entire Vanderbilt University community.
Last year, Team Vanderbilt won the largest health care team award, with 340 registered participants, and [...]

Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) has launched its new Personalized Cancer Medicine Initiative, becoming the first cancer center in the Southeast and one of the first in the nation to offer adult cancer patients routine “genotyping” of their tumors at the DNA level.
This information will then be used to personalize treatment by matching the appropriate therapy [...]

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 the most [...]

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 the [...]

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 Medical [...]

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