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Finding the Next Step
UNC Lineberger researcher Blossom Damania, PhD, has built her research career tackling difficult questions in cancer and global health research. As she begins her new role as UNC School of Medicine vice dean for research, she’s considering one more: What’s next?
Patient navigators look to connect health systems and communities
The North Carolina Oncology Navigator Association’s annual meeting in Chapel Hill brought together nurses, patient navigators and community health workers to focus on building connections between health systems and communities for the patient’s benefit, said UNC Lineberger’s Jean Sellers, RN, MSN, the association’s president.
Removing a brain tumor makes remaining cancer more aggressive
A study led by UNC Lineberger member Shawn Hingtgen, PhD, has determined that removing a glioblastoma tumor from the brain causes any cancer left behind to grow much faster than the original tumor did. The findings from the Neuro-Oncology paper illustrate the effect of surgery on the brain and tumor and the need to rethink how to treat the disease differently after the surgery.
UNC Lineberger hosts National Cancer Moonshot regional summit
Members from North Carolina’s three National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers, together with care providers, researchers, advocates and patients from the state, met in Chapel Hill to be part of a national discussion on how to speed the pace of cancer discovery and clinical advances.