Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Faculty and staff, as well as patients and survivors, are invited to learn about joining Team Vanderbilt for the annual Race for the Cure, an awareness builder and fund-raiser for breast cancer research.
The annual Komen for the Cure 5K event will be in Maryland Farms on Saturday, Oct. 9.
Information breakfasts will be offered:

Tuesday, Aug. 31, [...]

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 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 to [...]

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., professor [...]

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.

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 [...]

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.

Breast cancer patients are invited to a free counseling session designed to help them cope with cancer treatment side-effects like hair loss and complexion changes. The Vanderbilt Breast Center’s “Look Good…Feel Better” class will be held Wednesday, July 21, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Vanderbilt Health One Hundred Oaks.