June 5, 2019
Tag: Cancer Outcomes
June 4, 2019
EverydayHealth: Access to Quality Health Insurance Improves Cancer Screening, Survival, and More From the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology
June 2, 2019
Associated Press: Drugs make headway against lung, breast, prostate cancers
June 2, 2019
Men with early-stage prostate cancer who choose active surveillance often don’t follow monitoring guidelines
Preliminary results from a University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center study found that just 15 percent of a group of men in North Carolina with early-stage prostate cancer who choose active surveillance instead of treatment followed the recommended monitoring guidelines. The findings, which were presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology …
May 23, 2019
Wood appointed to leadership role with national clinical trials group
William A. Wood, MD, associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology and UNC Lineberger, was recently appointed vice chair of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology’s Transplant and Cell Based Therapies Committee. He succeeds Thomas C. Shea, MD, the John William Pope Distinguished Professor in Cancer Research at UNC Lineberger …
May 2, 2019
Cancer patients, doctors find healing, health in exercise
UNC Lineberger’s Get Real and Heel is a free exercise program for cancer survivors that offers a dedicated workout space staffed by trainers who develop individualized plans to help people manage cancer treatment-related symptoms and improve their chances of survivorship while increasing their quality of life.
April 30, 2019
Smith named director of urologic oncology, co-director of the Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Service
UNC Lineberger’s Angela B. Smith, MD, MS, FACS, has been named director of Urologic Oncology in the UNC Department of Urology and co-director of the Multidisciplinary Genitourinary Oncology Service at the N.C. Cancer Hospital, UNC Lineberger’s clinical home.
April 23, 2019
Chen elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center member Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, was elected as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies. He was formally inducted into the society during the joint meeting of the Association …
April 22, 2019
UNC Lineberger faculty present at the Oncology Nursing Society’s Annual Congress
UNC Lineberger faculty were among the several UNC School of Nursing presenters at the Oncology Nursing Society’s 44th Annual Congress in Anaheim, California, April 11-15. Ashley Bryant, PhD, RN-BC, OCN, Deborah Mayer, PhD, RN, AOCN, FAAN, and Lixin Song, PhD, RN, FAAN, along with UNC School of Nursing’s Rachel Hirschey, PhD, RN, Ahrang Jung, PhD, RN, and …
February 28, 2019