July 27, 2022
As a college professor specializing in military history, Dick Kohn is used to exploring the successes and failures of the past and looking at them through a current lens. But Kohn’s history with cancer is one area of his past that he is glad to see in the rearview mirror.
April 12, 2022
When a significant other is diagnosed with cancer, it can be just as hard on the loved one as it is on the patient. However, Stephen and Jackie Alston found themselves experiencing both roles when they were each diagnosed with cancer years apart.
March 8, 2022
Cindi Jolly uses her talents as a writer and painter to illustrate her journey with nasopharyngeal cancer, chronicling the ups and downs she faced from diagnosis to treatment and to survivorship.
August 23, 2021
Barry Wetzel has the support of the UNC Lineberger cancer care team, as well as support from family and community, to help him through his head and neck cancer journey.
May 20, 2021
September 28, 2020
UNC Lineberger, Yale Cancer Center and Fox Chase Comprehensive Cancer Center will use the grant to develop better treatments for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
August 7, 2020
Wendell Yarbrough, MD, MMHC, and colleagues will build upon research that demonstrated tumor and blood tests developed at UNC Lineberger could effectively determine if a patient's cancer had recurred.
April 15, 2020
Jared Weiss, MD, and Ben Vincent, MD, are leading an upcoming clinical trial hoping to cure lung and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas with their PANDA-VAC therapy.
February 27, 2020
February 4, 2020
An experimental blood test accurately detected HPV-linked head and neck cancer recurrence and confirmed when patients remained cancer-free.
