All Posts: cancer research

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10-Minute Urine Test Can Measure Specific Compounds from Food Consumed

Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, DC, have developed a method that can quickly evaluate specific food compounds in human urine. They…

March 16, 2016

GUMC Stories

Precision Medicine Pioneer Pursues New Cancer Treatments

Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD, recognizes the promise of precision medicine, but he feels it is important to understand its limitations as well as celebrating its future. …

January 6, 2016

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Finding Liver Cancer Early and Reversing Its Course

Liver cancer is often lethal in humans because it is diagnosed in late stages, but new work in animal models has identified a potential diagnostic biomarker of the disease and a…

April 21, 2015

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Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use

WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely - known as conditional reprogramming - has been…

February 23, 2015

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Center for Cellular Reprogramming Created To Drive Laboratory Breakthrough

Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, a global center of excellence whose mission is to promote intra- and…

December 12, 2013

GUMC Stories

HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm

(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of…

July 10, 2013

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New Center Serves as Research Hub

(March 20, 2013) — It quickly became known as the “Georgetown method.” A revolutionary way of growing both tumor and normal cells in order to one day truly personalize…

March 20, 2013

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Keeping Cells Alive in the Lab

(January 19, 2012) — There is a lot of talk about personalized cancer treatment in medicine these days. One idea is to subject a tumor to different therapies to find the…

January 19, 2012