February 19, 2019
An aging population, a growing number of cancer survivors, and a projected shortage of cancer care providers will result in a challenge in delivering the care for cancer survivors in the United States if systemic changes are not made, according to a commentary in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Compounding the problem is …
February 18, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have uncovered county-level factors linked to higher colorectal cancer mortality rates in a cluster of counties in northeastern North Carolina. In the journal Cancer Epidemiology, researchers report 10 counties in northeastern North Carolina are part of a cluster of counties with higher rates of colorectal cancer …
February 15, 2019
While Marie Wood felt like she had just been to war, still, she was happy. After a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, surgery and six months of chemotherapy, the Greensboro resident, mother of four and successful interior designer learned her cancer was in remission. Life was good. She had just wrapped up the holidays with her …
February 11, 2019
UNC Lineberger awarded grants to 14 scientists and research teams in the fall grant awards cycle. Applications for the next round of funding will be due March 15.
February 6, 2019
The United States Agency for International Development, in partnership with the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, will fund two new programs to prevent cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa, including a project led by UNC scientists and physicians in Malawi.
February 5, 2019
Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill published the third most number of scientific publications about electronic cigarettes between 2003-2018, according to a study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. The paper also cited UNC Lineberger's Kurt Ribisl, PhD, as one of the most prolific e-cigarette scientists.
February 4, 2019
UNC Lineberger's Sam Cykert, MD, and Geni Eng, DrPH, report that a combination of interventions reduced disparities in treatment and outcomes for black patients with early-stage lung cancer.
January 30, 2019
The multi-institutional team, which is co-led by UNC Lineberger's Gianpietro Dotti, MD, and includes six UNC Lineberger researchers, will focus on developing chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies to recognize and attack T-cell lymphoma, a group of rare cancers of the blood and immune system.
January 29, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center scientist Antonio “Tony” Amelio, PhD, is not necessarily looking for the “smoking gun” of cancer biology, or one single cause of cancer. Instead, he’s looking into how a family of newly described proteins involved in the cellular stress response can cause a complex ripple effect of changes …
January 24, 2019
In preliminary findings presented at the 2018 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, researchers led by UNC Lineberger's Charles M. Perou, PhD, and Susana Garcia-Recio, PhD, reported they found increased expression of the gene FGFR4 in metastatic breast cancer tumors.
