December 26, 2019
Yearly Archives: 2019
December 23, 2019
UNC Lineberger celebrates the holiday season
The staff at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has worked diligently this holiday season to ensure patients, and their families, feel at-home while receiving treatment. Join us as we look back at UNC Lineberger’s holiday season. Tree of Hope at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital In December, patients and their guests were invited to write …
December 19, 2019
Carey elected to American Society of Clinical Oncology’s board of directors
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has elected UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Lisa A. Carey, MD, FASCO, to its Board of Directors.
December 19, 2019
OncLive: Giants of Cancer Care Inductee Announced as Next ASCO President
December 18, 2019
2019 in review: A look back at innovation and celebration at UNC Lineberger
What does a year look like for the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center? It’s daily discoveries and cutting-edge research that bring new cancer treatments to life. Together, it’s a year of providing spectacular patient care to North Carolinians. It’s the many inspiring stories of strength, compassion and hope. And in 2019, it was so much …
December 17, 2019
Prostate Cancer Foundation awards grant to Coombs
The Prostate Cancer Foundation has awarded $225,000 across three years to UNC Lineberger’s Catherine C. Coombs, MD, to study whether genetic mutations that accumulate in the blood over time are linked to worse outcomes for prostate cancer. Coombs, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology, received the Young Investigator Award …
December 16, 2019
NPR: Vaping Nicotine Linked To Increased Risk Of Chronic Lung Disease
December 16, 2019
Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network publishes supplemental issue on disparities in cancer prevention and control
In 2019, nearly 2 million Americans will receive a cancer diagnosis and more than 600,000 will die of cancer, according to the American Cancer Society. Cancer diagnoses and deaths are disproportionately high among people who live in rural counties, have a low socioeconomic status, and are members of underserved racial and ethnic groups. The Cancer …
December 16, 2019
Reuters: Vaping increases the risk of lung disease by a third: U.S. study
December 16, 2019
Lung Cancer Initiative awards research grant to Du to investigate novel treatment
The Lung Cancer Initiative of North Carolina (LCI) has awarded The Vicky Amidon Innovation in Lung Cancer Research Award to Hongwei Du, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The award also was presented to Kenneth Adler, PhD, at the North Carolina State University College …