All Posts: 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

• Small Numbers of Cells in a Tumor Could Be Key Enablers of Cancer Metastasis

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cancer research, CRISPR, Georgetown Lombardi

• Clinical Trial Result Leads to New Treatment Option for Hard-to-Treat Breast Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, triple-negative breast cancer

• From Husband and Wife to Caregiver and Patient, John and Liza Marshall Reflect on Their Personal Cancer Journey in New Memoir

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, memoir

• Two Georgetown Lombardi Researchers Win Top Award in Back-to-Back Years

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, faculty honors, grants and awards, health disparities, Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities Research

• Music to Our Ears: Georgetown Lombardi’s Arts & Humanities Program Receives National Endowment for the Arts Grant

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Arts & Humanities Program, cancer, Georgetown Lombardi, music and healing, patient care

• Mechanism for How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immunotherapy Elucidated

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, pancreatic cancer

• Male Breast Cancer Patients Face High Prevalence of Heart Disease Risk Factors

  Category: News Release Tags: breast cancer, cancer, cardio-oncology, cardiology, cardiovascular risk, Georgetown Lombardi, male breast cancer