January 26, 2023
Tag: Geriatric Oncology Clinical Program
January 26, 2023
MedPage Today: ICI Survival Gains ‘Less Impressive’ in Older Lung Cancer Patients
June 8, 2020
Muss Receives ASCO’s Allen S. Lichter Visionary Leader Award for improving cancer care in older adults
The award recognizes an ASCO member whose vision, leadership and inspirational work has had a lasting impact on the field.
September 5, 2019
2019 Geriatric Oncology Symposium: Cancer and Aging Research at Forefront
Registration for this event closed Nov. 14, 2019 Agenda Pre-Conference Workshop: 9:30 – 11 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Welcome and Introduction Kristen Nyrop, PhD 9:45 a.m. LCCC 0916 Carolina Senior Roundtable Discussions Patty Spears Geriatric Oncology Symposium: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. 11 a.m. Introduction Trevor Jolly, MD, Hyman Muss, MD, and Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD 11:05 a.m. Welcome …
August 13, 2019
Muss leads study published in Journal of Clinical Oncology
UNC Lineberger’s Hyman B. Muss, MD, the Mary Jones Hudson Distinguished Professor in the UNC School of Medicine Division of Hematology/Oncology and director of UNC Lineberger’s geriatric oncology program, led a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that found that older patients with early breast cancer had lower rate of recurrence when treated …
January 3, 2019
Geriatric oncology symposium highlights the ‘growing edge’ of cancer therapy
UNC Lineberger leaders recently hosted the annual research symposium on geriatric oncology, which is the field of medicine that deals with diagnosis and treatment of cancer for adults 65 years and older.