CHAPEL HILL, NC – Hy Muss, MD, professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology, director of the UNC Lineberger Geriatric Oncology Program, and UNC Lineberger member, is co-author of the case study “Case 15-2010 — An 85-Year-Old Woman with Mammographically Detected Early Breast Cancer” published today in the New England Journal of … Read more

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CHAPEL HILL, NC – Ralph Baric, PhD, professor of epidemiology at UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and a member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has been elected to the American Academy for Microbiology. He will be recognized at the Academy Fellows luncheon in San Diego on May 26, 2010. Dr. Baric and … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A study led by a researcher from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found that screening mammograms in women under age 40 result in high rates of callbacks and additional imaging tests but low rates of cancer detection. The new findings were published online May 3 in the … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Hy Muss, MD, and Laura Hanson, MD, co-authored an editorial in the April 22, 2010 issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology titled “Cancer in the Oldest: Making Better Treatment Decisions.” Muss, professor of medicine, is director of the UNC Geriatric Oncology Program, of which Hanson is a faculty member. Hanson, … Read more

The 34th annual UNC Lineberger scientific symposium attracted more than 500 participants. Held at the Friday Center on April 28-29, 2010, the event featured speakers on “MicroRNAs and Non-Coding RNAs in Development and Cancer.” Greg Hannon from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory delivered the keynote address. Josh Mendell from Johns Hopkins University and Frank Slack from … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Men infected with human papillomavirus (HPV) are at greater risk of becoming infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) than men who are not HPV positive, according to researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Preventing HPV infection could be a way to slow the HIV epidemic, the researchers … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Jean and Woody Durham of Chapel Hill received the 2010 Outstanding Service Award from the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Durhams were honored during the spring meeting of the Lineberger Board of Visitors. The award is given to a volunteer who provides … Read more

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have identified a molecular marker of pancreatic cancer that may help spot the disease at its earliest stages, when it can be treated more successfully with surgery. In a finding published April 26, 2010, in the online journal … Read more