April 26, 2016
At age 47, Debra Jackson was diagnosed with stage I adrenal cancer. Dr. Jen Jen Yeh was able to surgically remove all of Debra's cancerous tumor, but was worried about her patient's overall health and ability to recover. Now, three years later, Debra has lost 175 pounds, and is living healthy, happy and cancer-free.
April 25, 2016
UNC Lineberger member, UNC School of Medicine professor and basic scientist Keith Burridge has conducted seminal research on the basic building blocks of cells for four decades.
April 20, 2016
Amanda Van Swearingen, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate at UNC Lineberger, was awarded a AACR-Triple Negative Breast Cancer Foundation Scholar-in-Training Award based on the quality of the abstract she submitted to the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2016, held in New Orleans.
April 20, 2016
Sequencing a tumor's RNA in addition to its DNA makes it possible to better characterize the cancer’s mutations, reported Neil Hayes, MD, MPH, at the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual meeting. This additional information, said Hayes, may help improve a cancer patient’s treatment.
April 18, 2016
A potential new blood test is sensitive enough to detect changes in numbers of head and neck cancer cells circulating in the blood, a pilot study by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and collaborators has found. The findings from the study will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Tuesday, April 19.
April 18, 2016
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a combination of investigational drugs that have been shown to be effective together at targeting triple negative breast cancer in the brain in preclinical studies. Their findings will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Tuesday, April 19.
April 18, 2016
A study by researchers from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and other institutions found a link between higher intake of dietary saturated fat, a type of fat found commonly in foods such as fatty beef and cheese, and risk of aggressive prostate cancer. The preliminary results were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans on Monday, April 18.
April 17, 2016
More than 440 people recently attended the 40th Annnual UNC Lineberger Scientific Symposium, which featured talks on treatments and ongoing research that target the RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK and other signaling pathways in cancer.
April 15, 2016
A study led by UNC Lineberger researchers has found that for women who have had a false-positive mammogram result, their likelihood to get screened at recommended intervals depends on the timing of their last screen. Louise Henderson, PhD, will present the findings at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Monday, April 18.
April 13, 2016
Jenny Ting, Ph.D. and her colleagues report research findings in Cell Host & Microbe that further explain the role of host proteins in viral replication and the innate immune response to HIV infection.
