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March 1, 2017
Basch leads study published in JAMA Oncology
JAMA Oncology paper examined whether patients were willing to report their symptoms in multi-center clinical trials.
March 1, 2017
JAMA Oncology paper examined whether patients were willing to report their symptoms in multi-center clinical trials.
February 22, 2017
UNC Lineberger researchers Hy Muss, MD, Shlomit Strulov Shachar, MD, and colleagues report in the journal Clinical Cancer Research that a measure of muscle mass and muscle quality developed at UNC could potentially help doctors better identify patients at high risk for side effects that could require hospitalization.
February 16, 2017
A study led by UNC Lineberger researcher Ronald Chen, MD, found that a group of prostate cancer patients reliably reported their own medical histories when their responses were compared to their medical records.
February 13, 2017
Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine, was selected to represent NRG Oncology on the Prostate Cancer Task Force, a sub-committee supporting the NCI Genitourinary Cancers Steering Committee (GUSC).
February 13, 2017
William Wood, MD, MPH, UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine, has been named co-chair of the Health Services and International Studies Working Committee of the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research.
January 25, 2017
UNC Lineberger researchers Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, and Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, called for tailored, local-level cancer prevention, screening and treatment efforts to address regional disparities in cancer mortality rates in an editorial published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
January 11, 2017
In a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine, UNC Lineberger member Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, addressed the need for – and the barriers preventing – electronic reporting of patients’ symptoms between visits.
December 13, 2016
The University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Geriatric Research Symposium, held Dec. 2, featured seven presentations and panel discussions focused on muscle mass, aging and patient function.
October 31, 2016
UNC Lineberger’s Stephanie Wheeler, PhD, MPH, and Ethan Basch, MD, MSc, were in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 17 to take part in Vice President Joe Biden's report to President Obama on his strategic plan for transforming cancer research and care.
October 31, 2016
Ronald C. Chen, MD, MPH, a UNC Lineberger member and associate professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Radiation Oncology, was a discussant in the plenary session of the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) on Sept. 26.