December 5, 2019
A multidisciplinary team of investigators, including from the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, King’s College and the University of California, San Francisco, has discovered how mouth stem cells may uniquely be equipped to help improve healing in other parts of the body after disease or injury. The …
December 5, 2019
UNC Lineberger’s Comprehensive Cancer Support Program offers free wellness workshops to help adult cancer survivors transition from active treatment. Through Cancer Transitions, cancer survivors can learn about nutrition, exercise, coping with stress, and medical management from UNC Lineberger experts. Cancer Transitions is a program of the Cancer Support Community and LiveSTRONG. “After treatment ends, survivors …
December 2, 2019
The North Carolina Biotechnology Center awarded $100,000 to UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Chad Pecot, MD, to study an experimental treatment that would silence a gene commonly mutated in cancer. Using a Nobel Prize-winning technology called RNA interference or RNAi, Pecot’s lab designed an investigational drug to shut down the mutated version of the KRAS …
December 1, 2019
The Web of Science Group’s 2019 Highly Cited Researchers list recognized 18 UNC Lineberger members for being among the world’s most influential researchers of the past decade. The listing is limited to researchers who have published multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent by citations for field and year. Approximately only 6,200 …
November 26, 2019
A group from the Coldwell Banker Howard Perry and Walston real estate agency presented a $42,000 donation to UNC Lineberger to support its Comprehensive Cancer Support Program at the North Carolina Cancer Hospital. HPW raised the funds during its 2019 Pig Out For The Cure event in September. Pig Out For The Cure is an …
November 18, 2019
The KRAS gene is commonly mutated in cancer. In the journal Cancer Discovery, researchers led by Channing Der, PhD, and Aaron Hobbs, PhD, reported details of the role of the KRAS G12R mutation in pancreatic cancer, and therapeutic strategies that might work for this mutation type. By studying unique differences in DNA mutations within the same gene, researchers are working to uncover the mutation-specific mechanisms that drive cancerous growth.
November 14, 2019
The North Carolina Cancer Hospital, the clinical home of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, has named the multidisciplinary clinic reception area in honor of Karen Isner, a two-time cancer survivor and the mother of professional tennis player John Isner.
November 14, 2019
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have discovered a promising method to identify aggressive breast cancer tumors that will respond to drugs that unleash the immune system against cancer. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved a treatment that combines an immunotherapy drug and chemotherapy for triple negative breast cancer, but …
November 5, 2019
Scientists from the UNC School of Medicine and Stanford University have uncovered what may be a fundamental biological mechanism that helps organisms adapt to rapid changes to nutrients in their environments. In a study published in Molecular Cell, the scientists found that a chemical mark on histones – a key protein involved in the function of our …
November 5, 2019
A University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center-led research team has used genetic insights about head and neck cancers linked to HPV, or human papillomavirus, to improve laboratory tools for studying the disease. Leveraging their discovery that different subtypes of HPV-linked oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma exist based on the expression levels of two different …
