All Posts: cancer

• Beyond the Clinic: Georgetown Medical Student Trades Scrubs For Suit in Medical-Legal Partnership

  Medical student Scott Nichols gained a deep understanding of the intersection of law and medicine in the Cancer Legal Assistance and Wellbeing (LAW) Project, which assigns fourth-year medical students to work alongside attorneys representing cancer patients to address both legal and medical concerns.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Cancer LAW, Georgetown Law, medical education, medical-legal partnership, School of Medicine

• Method Developed to Identify Best Treatment Combinations for Glioblastoma Based on Unique Cellular Targets

  Researchers have developed a new computational approach that uncovers possible drugs for specific cellular targets for treating glioblastoma, a lethal brain tumor. This approach enabled them to predict more effective treatment combinations to fight the disease on an individualized basis. This laboratory and computational research effort was led by scientists at Georgetown Lombardi.

  Category: News Release Tags: brain tumor, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, glioblastoma, research

• Professor Makes Strides in Pancreatic Cancer Detection and Treatment

  Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. Jill Smith, MD, a member of Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, is working to improve the disease’s grim statistics. Over the past decade, Smith, also a gastroenterologist and professor of medicine in the School of Medicine, has made discoveries in the lab that she’s working to translate to patients.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, pancreatic cancer, research, translational research

• Clinical Study Deepens Understanding of Mesothelioma and Opens the Door to Potential Treatment Options

  People with operable diffuse pleural mesothelioma may benefit from immunotherapy before and after surgery, based on results of a clinical trial exploring the sequence of treatment and the role of surgery for this difficult to treat cancer.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, clinical trials, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, mesothelioma, research

• Rate of Rare Liver Cancer High Among Russian Nuclear Workers, Particularly Women, Study Finds

  A new study of Russian nuclear workers, one of only a few to examine liver cancer in people exposed to radiation in a chronic, low-dose occupational setting, finds higher rates of bile duct cancer and hepatocellular carcinoma among the workers, as well as unusually high rates in women of angiosarcoma of the liver, a form of cancer that is extremely rare.

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, global oncology, Mayak Nuclear Workers, occupational radiation exposure, radiation, radiation exposure

• Celebrating a Milestone in Cancer Research

  This month marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of a paper by now-Georgetown Lombardi member Marc E. Lippman, MD, MACP, FRCP, and his colleague Gail Bolan, MD, that showed for the first time that the hormone estrogen can drive the growth of breast cancer. It was a pivotal moment in cancer research that has led to life-extending and lifesaving treatments for the thousands of people who develop breast cancer each year.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, estrogen and breast cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Marc Lippman, research

• Georgetown Faculty Share Research and Explore Collaborations on Global Cervical Cancer

  In June 2025, the Global Cancer Collaborative, a joint initiative between the Georgetown University Global Health Institute and Georgetown’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, hosted a seminar on cervical cancer. Three presenters from Georgetown detailed their current work, and attendees from across the university were invited to discuss new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cervical cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, Global Cancer Collaborative, global health, global oncology, research

• Gift Strengthens Support for Parents with Cancer and Their Families

  Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the establishment of a new initiative designed to provide information and support services to parents with cancer. Thanks to a substantial gift from Elizabeth’s Smile, a cancer support organization co-founded by Nancy Hungerford, Georgetown Lombardi will develop an Interventions for Managing Parenting and Cancer Team (IMPACT) and a signature program called Family Circle by Elizabeth’s Smile.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, philanthropy

• With a New ‘Map’ of Cells, Georgetown Cancer Researchers Chart a Course to More Effective Treatment

  Faculty and students from Biomedical Graduate Education programs, the School of Medicine and Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center are developing a new technique that could revolutionize the way cancers are tracked and treated. Instead of invasive surgical biopsies or time-consuming scans, clinicians could use simple blood tests to determine where the cancer is and whether it is responding to treatment.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Biomedical Graduate Education, cancer, cancer research, cancer screening, Georgetown Lombardi, liquid biopsy, MD/PhD Program, research

• Tumor Biology Student Sidharth Jain Combines Discovery and Care on MD/PhD Path

  As an MD/PhD in Tumor Biology student, Sidharth Jain works between two worlds of health science. On the PhD side, lab research, data analysis and discovery; on the MD side, patients fighting for their lives.

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: biomedical education, Biomedical Graduate Education, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, MD/PhD Program, research, Tumor Biology Program