2016 - Page 12 of 24 - UNC Lineberger

Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH, is a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member and professor in the UNC School of Medicine.

UNC Lineberger researcher Adam O. Goldstein, MD, MPH, and UNC Department of Family Medicine researcher Clare Meernik, MPH, write in a commentary published in the Annals of Family Medicine that existing treatments are more effective than e-cigarettes to help people quit smoking, there are professional ethics concerns about providers who recommend them and there is no strong evidence that e-cigarettes are safe.

Andrew Olshan, PhD, is president-elect of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the oldest and largest general epidemiology society in North America.

A leading expert in the molecular epidemiology of cancers of the head and neck and evaluation of risk factors for childhood cancer, Andrew Olshan, PhD, will serve as president-elect until next July, when he becomes president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Blossom Damania, PhD, is co-director of the UNC Lineberger Global Oncology Program and the UNC Lineberger Virology Program.

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?

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.

Shawn Hingtgen, PhD, said removing a glioblastoma causes any tumor cells that remained in the brain to grow at a much faster rate than the original tumor.

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 Director Norman E. Sharpless, MD, spoke about the importance of cancer prevention during directors’ panel discussion at the Cancer Moonshot's regional summit in Chapel Hill.

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.

William A. Wood, MD, is a UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology.

UNC Lineberger researchers led by Dr. William A. Wood found that for patients treated in a hospital, the risk of death from acute myeloid leukemia was elevated in three regions of the state compared to a benchmark.

UNC Lineberger researcher Blossom Damania, PhD, postdoctoral researcher Aadra Bhatt, PhD, and colleagues have discovered a slick trick a virus uses to spur cancerous cell growth in its host: the virus initiates a signal that mimics one of the host cell’s own signals.

Credit: Amanda Chang. G. Greg Wang, PhD, is a UNC Lineberger member and an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

A study by UNC Lineberger researcher G. Greg Wang, PhD, and colleagues uncovered the genetic mechanism behind how acute myeloid leukemia cells with a specific DNA mutation stay as undifferentiated cells, rather than maturing into healthy blood cells.

Yearly Archives: 2016

UNC experts: Doctors shouldn’t routinely recommend e-cigarettes to smokers

Olshan elected president of North America’s oldest epidemiology society

Finding the Next Step

Patient navigators look to connect health systems and communities

Removing a brain tumor makes remaining cancer more aggressive

UNC Lineberger hosts National Cancer Moonshot regional summit

UNC Lineberger hosts Cancer Moonshoot regional summit

Risk of death for adults with blood cancer higher in three N.C. regions

Cancer-causing virus mimics host signal to drive cell growth, protein production

Researchers discover how faulty genetic instructions drive a deadly blood cancer in adults