All Posts: cancer research
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Frederick National Laboratory and Georgetown Launch Research and Education Collaboration
A new collaboration between Georgetown University and the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research in Frederick, Maryland, aims to expand both institutions’…
February 27, 2018
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New Immunotherapy Combination Tolerable, Effective in Patients with Advanced Kidney Cancer
A study led by Michael B. Atkins, MD, deputy director, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, that combined an agent that blocks blood vessel formation with an…
February 7, 2018
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Unique Research Approach Finds FDA Approved Drug Shuts Down Ewing Sarcoma Cells in Lab
Based on a novel approach to drug discovery, researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say an agent approved to treat a type of leukemia might also help…
January 26, 2018
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Sharing Innovation and Motivation at the Ruesch Center Symposium
Nearly 300 medical professionals, patients, caregivers and advocates attended the 8th Annual Ruesch Center Symposium on December 1, listening to lectures on topics including…
December 10, 2017
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New Test Provides Accurate Measure of DNA Damage from Chemical Compounds
A new biomarker test developed by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and their colleagues can help predict, with up to 90 percent certainty, which…
December 4, 2017
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Schlegel Strives to Create Another Cervical Cancer Game Changer
While the HPV vaccine has been a game changer, recent research by Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, may lead to another advance by treating women already infected with HPV and a…
October 4, 2017
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By Decoding How HPV Causes Cancer, Researchers Find a New Potential Treatment Strategy
A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say is a…
September 26, 2017
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Two Agents Deliver Knockout Punches to Ewing Sarcoma
When combined with an already FDA-approved chemotherapy, a novel agent developed by researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center appears to halt the ability of Ewing…
September 19, 2017
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Precision Medicine and Immunotherapy: Tomorrow's Cancer Treatments Today at Georgetown Lombardi
Diane Lucey's unusual cancer stumped her doctors. But after ordering a profile of her tumor, medical oncologist Louis Weiner knew exactly how to.…
February 24, 2017
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Scientists Describe Lab Technique With Potential To Change Medicine and Research
Researchers who developed and tested a revolutionary laboratory technique that allows for the endless growth of normal and diseased cells in a laboratory are publicly sharing how…
January 20, 2017