October 26, 2018
UNC Lineberger Director H. Shelton Earp, MD, highlighted the major cancer research, clinical care and fundraising milestones from the past year as part of his “State of the Cancer Center” update, which was delivered Oct. 16 at the center's annual scientific retreat.
October 25, 2018
At it 35th Annual National Oncology Conference, the Association of Community Cancer Centers recognized the North Carolina Cancer Hospital, UNC Lineberger's clinical home, for early adoption of a program to reduce drug waste and reduce drug cost.
October 23, 2018
UNC Lineberger's J. Victor Garcia, PhD, the Oliver Smithies Investigator, professor of medicine, and a member of the UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases and the UNC Center for AIDS Research, is a co-investigator for a project that aims to provide long-lasting HIV treatment and/or protection from a single injection. Angela Wahl, PhD, Rahima Benhabbour, PhD, and Martina Kovarova, PhD, are collaborating to lead the work, which is funded by a $3.8-million NIH grant.
October 23, 2018
Information on the site preparations for the construction of UNC Medical Center Surgical Tower and how will impact on how people access the medical campus.
October 23, 2018
Gianpietro Dotti, MD, will use the $100,000 grant to conduct research into the use of cellular immunotherapy to treat solid tumors such as neuroblastoma, glioblastoma, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer and triple negative breast cancer.
October 23, 2018
UNC Lineberger's Bhishamjit S. Chera, MD, will present preliminary findings at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology on Tuesday from a study that evaluated a blood test for HPV-linked oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma, which is a cancer of the back of the throat. The findings demonstrated the test could be an effective and less costly alternative for monitoring for cancer recurrence after radiation treatment.
October 15, 2018
Daniel Reuland, MD, MPH, and colleagues published a review of data from 73 randomized clinical trials that tested different ways of increasing screening for colorectal cancer. Their analysis identified three approaches as being the most effective.
October 8, 2018
UNC Lineberger’s Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Joel Parker, PhD, Sara Selitsky, PhD, and colleagues published a new study in the journal mSystems, an open access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The study used data from The Cancer Genome Atlas project to explore whether Epstein-Barr virus is linked with additional cancer types beyond gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, and certain lymphomas, which have been convincingly linked to infection with the virus.
October 5, 2018
In the journal Molecular Cell, researchers led by UNC Lineberger's G. Greg Wang, PhD, and H. Shelton Earp, MD, describe the role of a protein variant called androgen receptor variant 7 (AR-V7), which is an alternative form of the androgen receptor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and treatment.
October 5, 2018
A study led by UNC Lineberger's Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, investigated the extent and severity of negative financial effects of cancer among women with breast cancer that has spread in the body. The preliminary results were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Quality Care Symposium, held Sept. 28-29 in Phoenix.
