All Posts: cancer

• Biomarkers Found That Could Be Drug Targets Against a Deadly Form of Brain Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: brain, brain tumor, cancer, cancer research

• Georgetown Lombardi Arts and Humanities Online Classes Build Communities Across the Globe

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi

• Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation Makes Gift to Address Disparities in Cancer Care

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, cancer, cancer prevention, cancer research, colorectal cancer, philanthropy, prostate cancer, Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Prevention

• Biological Pathways Found That Drive Genomic Changes and Bone Metastasis in Ewing Sarcoma, a Rare Childhood Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Ewing sarcoma, Georgetown Lombardi

• New Factors That Can Predict Breast Cancer Recurrence Defined

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, conditional cell reprogramming, Georgetown Lombardi

• Trial Stopped Early: Giving Immunotherapy Before Targeted Rx Improves Survival in Advanced Melanoma

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, immunotherapy, melanoma

• Experimental Drug Boosts Immunotherapy Effectiveness in Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer

• St. Baldrick’s Event Organizers Motivated by Personal Connections with Pediatric Cancer

  (October 31, 2021) — Dreary weather didn’t dampen the spirits of those attending an October 29 fundraiser at Georgetown for the St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the biggest non-government funder of pediatric cancer research grants.  Before the pandemic, Georgetown students had held fundraisers in the spring for St. Baldrick’s, with a few participants volunteering to have their […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, School of Medicine, service to others, St. Baldrick's

• Starting Mammography at Age 40 Would Reduce Disparities in Deaths for Black Women

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, breast cancer screening, cancer, health disparities, mammography, racial disparities

• DNA Tags Enable Blood-Based Tests to Assess Cancer Treatment Outcomes

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cfDNA, liquid biopsy