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January 10, 2019
‘The singing patient’ hopes his music will inspire others
Decorated military veteran MG Autry says service to others is central to his life. Even when he is facing his own health challenges, he would have it no other way.
January 10, 2019
Decorated military veteran MG Autry says service to others is central to his life. Even when he is facing his own health challenges, he would have it no other way.
January 8, 2019
"The Art of Science and Innovation," an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Art, featured images by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers.
January 3, 2019
UNC Lineberger leaders recently hosted the annual research symposium on geriatric oncology, which is the field of medicine that deals with diagnosis and treatment of cancer for adults 65 years and older.
January 2, 2019
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s faculty were at the forefront of a many new efforts to fight, prevent and understand cancer in 2018. Projects launched or completed in the year included efforts to use the immune system to fight cancer, to better prevent cancer through screening, and to understand the disease at the most basic …
December 21, 2018
UNC Lineberger’s Joshua Zeidner, MD, reported preliminary data at the 60th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting from a phase II clinical trial for administering a high-dose of the chemotherapy treatment cytarabine followed by an immune checkpoint inhibitor, pembrolizumab, in patients with acute myeloid leukemia that had relapsed or no longer responded to other treatment.
December 20, 2018
At the 60th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in San Diego on Dec. 3, Eben Lichtman, MD, presented preliminary findings from preclinical studies of CAR T-cells directed towards a potential target called B7-H3, which is found on the cell surface of certain types of AML.
December 20, 2018
The board, elected by ASCO’s member oncologists, is comprised of cancer physicians and clinical researchers who volunteer their time with ASCO. Basch is a medical oncologist and distinguished professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology and a professor in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He also is director of …
December 18, 2018
UNC Lineberger’s holiday party was just what the doctor ordered – Dr. Seuss, that is. Cancer center faculty and staff came together in a seasonally festive Lineberger atrium Friday, Dec. 14, to celebrate the holidays, catch up with colleagues, enjoy a delicious buffet, and learn the winners of this year’s hotly contested door decoration competition, …
December 13, 2018
There are many ways to show gratitude, but one patient took it to a new level, using her ties to the wedding industry and a tight-knit group of friends to hold an event to benefit ovarian cancer research and UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. With the help of her friends and daughter Terri Yates, Cindy …
December 11, 2018
UNC Lineberger's Hazel Nichols, PhD, and collaborators from the Premenopausal Breast Cancer Collaborative Group identified elevated breast cancer risk after childbirth in women younger than 55.