November 17, 2015
Researchers surveyed more than 700 pediatricians and family physicians about their recommendations for the HPV vaccine, finding that 27 percent did not strongly endorse the vaccine. The findings are significant as low uptake of HPV vaccination is contributing to a national crisis in cancer prevention, said UNC Lineberger researcher and study senior author Noel Brewer.
November 10, 2015
UNC Lineberger researcher Stephen Hursting, PhD, MPH is a recipient of the NCI Outstanding Investigator Award for 2015. Hursting was in the first class of recipients of the seven-year grant award, which supports investigators with outstanding records of productivity in cancer research by providing extended funding stability and encouraging investigators to continue or embark on projects of unusual potential in cancer research.
November 5, 2015
North Carolina’s health care providers from across the state met in Chapel Hill on Friday, Oct. 30 for the 7th Annual Coping with Cancer Symposium hosted by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, UNC Cancer Network and the Comprehensive Cancer Support Program.
November 5, 2015
A UNC Lineberger-led study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology identified a group of women with HER2 positive breast cancer who could benefit from less intensive targeted treatment
October 28, 2015
A study published in JAMA Oncology found that pre-menopausal women who were diagnosed with breast cancer following a biennial screening mammogram were likely to have more advanced tumors than woman screened annually. UNC Lineberger researcher Louise Henderson was a co-author on the study, which was co-led by researchers at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
October 28, 2015
A research team led by Drs. Adrienne D. Cox and Channing J. Der (members of the UNC Lineberger Program in Molecular Therapeutics) is one of the first recipients of an NCI U01 grant on New Approaches to Synthetic Lethality for Mutant KRas-Dependent Cancers. Their team, which also includes Drs. Ben Major at UNC, Kris Wood at Duke and Krister Wennerberg at FIMM, will pursue novel genetic screens to search for the long-elusive effective anti-KRAS cancer treatment.
October 27, 2015
UNC Lineberger and North Carolina Central University were awarded grants totaling more than $11 million for cancer research that addresses disparities in cancer incidence and death for African-Americans in North Carolina.
October 27, 2015
UNC Lineberger researchers Susan Ennett, PhD, professor and vice chair for academic affairs at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, and Kurt Ribisl, PhD, professor, were authors on a study published in BMC Public Health that documented retailer opinions about tobacco control policies at the point of sale.
October 27, 2015
UNC Lineberger researchers shared research findings and expertise Oct. 18-21 at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting.
October 26, 2015
A study co-led by scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, in collaboration with UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher Charles M. Perou found that women whose breast cancer had begun to spread and who tested positive in the αB-crystallin test were three times more likely to have disease that spread to the brain than those who tested negative.
