Lisa Carey, MD, ScM, FASCO, was honored for her distinguished service over the years leading outstanding clinical and translational research and her work in eradicating health disparities.
UNC Health social worker Rose Wilson, MSW, and UNC Health oncologist Jared Weiss, MD, discuss the physical and emotional considerations of long-term cancer care.
Researchers and trainees from UNC and UNC Lineberger at will present more than 30 talks and participate in scientific and educational panels and discussions on the latest cancer research.
The grant will support the first metastatic pancreatic cancer trial in the country to evaluate whether selecting treatment by tumor subtype will help patients match to more effective first-line therapies.
Hong Jin (HJ) Kim, MD, has been appointed vice chair of academic affairs in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery and associate physician-in-chief of the N.C. Basnight Cancer Hospital.
UNC Lineberger has been selected for the newly launched Cancer Screening Research Network, which will evaluate promising and emerging cancer screening technologies.
The PROmoting CLinicAl TrIal EngageMent for Pancreatic Cancer App Study (PROCLAIM Study), which is focused on breaking down barriers to diverse clinical trial population recruitment, is enrolling patients.
“To our knowledge, this is the first prospective trial to look at gene mutations using state-of-the-art gene sequencing in this population,” said study author and UNC Lineberger member Naim Rashid, PhD.
New findings from Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, and colleagues show how the cGAS-STING pathway is unleashed to prevent cancer formation by detecting DNA damage within cells.
Researchers from UNC Lineberger and UNC will present findings from studies, speak at scientific symposia and lead educational sessions at the 65th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting.
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium features presentations outlining basic, translational, clinical and community-based study findings focused on advancing the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.
Sarah Chaires, FNP, never thought that she would slip off the white medical provider lab coat and slip into a patient hospital gown. But everything redirected for the Chaires family when she was diagnosed with HER2-positive breast cancer.
Jason Akulian, MD MPH, and colleagues have shown that their steerable lung robot can autonomously maneuver the intricacies of the lung, while avoiding important lung structures.