All Posts: cancer
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Schlegel Shares Updates on Preventing and Treating Cervical Cancer
Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology and director of the Center for Cell Reprogramming at Georgetown University Medical Center, talked…
May 11, 2018
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Little Minnow Provides Big Insights into Human Health
A 10-minute documentary featuring Georgetown and other leading researchers describes how the silver-and-black-striped zebrafish provides a biomedical research model that is…
May 7, 2018
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Inspiration and Celebration at the 13th Annual Women & Wine
The 13th-annual Women & Wine event, which took place on April 18, raised over $630,000 for the Nina Hyde Center for Breast Cancer Research at Georgetown Lombardi…
April 26, 2018
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Supporting St. Baldrick’s with Superheroes, Sumo Wrestling and More
With live music, a silent auction, pie- and donut-eating contests, sumo wrestling, superheroes, speeches, head shaving and more, the 2018 St. Baldrick’s fundraiser,…
April 16, 2018
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Advancing Plastic Surgery Practice and Research
For David Habin Song, MD, MBA, academic chair of the department of plastic surgery at Georgetown University School of Medicine and MedStar Health physician executive director for…
April 10, 2018
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Research in a Minute: Giuseppe Giaccone, MD, PhD
As associate director of clinical research at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of medical oncology and pharmacology at Georgetown University School…
March 29, 2018
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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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Family History Increases Breast Cancer Risk Even in Older Women: Weighing Screening Options
Family history of breast cancer continues to significantly increase chances of developing invasive breast tumors in women ages 65 and older, according to research published by a…
February 7, 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