May 3, 2021
Lawrence Marks, MD, and colleagues published a comprehensive review highlighting the optimal ways that focused, high-dose radiation can be delivered to various types of tumors while sparing normal tissue and mitigating long-term side effects.
November 22, 2020
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October 30, 2020
Jenny Ting, PhD, and colleagues published a study showing bacteria mitigated radiation exposure and enhanced the recovery of blood cell production as well as repair of the gastrointestinal tract.
October 19, 2015
A study led by a UNC Lineberger researcher found that lower doses of chemotherapy and radiation produced complete pathologic responses in 86 percent of a group of HPV-positive patients.
August 18, 2015
UNC Lineberger member Andrew Wang, MD, was senior author of a preclinical study published in the journal ACS Nano. Wang and collaborators found that they could improve cancer chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy treatments by delivering a combination of cancer-fighting drugs using nanoparticles.
June 25, 2015
In a new study published in the Cell Press journal Chemistry & Biology, researchers share a discovery that they say could lead to a new strategy for sensitizing radiation-resistant cancer cells to the treatment.
March 17, 2015
The use of robot-assisted surgery and modern radiation techniques have been rapidly adopted as treatments for prostate cancer, but a UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher is asking what the newer technologies will mean in terms of side effects and outcomes for patients in the long-term.
January 20, 2015
Timothy R. Gershon, MD, PhD, and Vivian Gama, PhD, have been announced as the 2015 recipients of the Weatherspoon Family Brain Tumor Research Award.
