All Posts: cancer

• Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Collaborate on COVID-19 Antibody Study

  WASHINGTON (May 7, 2020) — Georgetown University Medical Center, in collaboration with MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, is conducting a study to test for antibodies in two groups of people with increased vulnerability to COVID-19: hospital workers and those with cancer. The FDA has approved (under an emergency use authorization) only a few tests produced commercially […]

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, biomedical research, cancer, COVID-19, immune response, infectious disease, SARS-CoV-2

• Georgetown Lombardi Launches COVID-19 Antibody Study in People with Cancer

  Category: News Release Tags: 2019 Novel Coronavirus, cancer, cancer research, COVID-19, Georgetown Lombardi, SARS-CoV-2

• Adding Smoking Cessation to Lung Cancer Screening Can Reduce Mortality by 14%

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, lung cancer, lung cancer screening, smoking, smoking cessation

• Georgetown Breast Cancer Researcher Inducted as AAAS Fellow

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: breast cancer, cancer, faculty honors

• Donors Get Firsthand Look at How Funds for New Medical Research Are Used

  (February 10, 2020) — Current and potential donors to the Partners in Research program were given a rare look into the laboratories where medical tests and drug trials get their start. During the recent “Night at the Lab” tour on the Georgetown University Medical Center campus, participants walked down white halls lined with posters of […]

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: Alzheimer's disease, biomedical research, cancer, philanthropy

• Team Georgetown Lombardi Wins Hands on Hope Competition

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, pediatric oncology, philanthropy

• Cancer Organization Recommends Genetic Testing for Jewish People of Ashkenazi Descent

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, genetic counseling, genetic testing, Georgetown Lombardi

• Gut Bacteria May Be One Culprit for Increase of Colorectal Cancer in Younger People

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

• New Drug Prevents Liver Damage, Obesity and Glucose Intolerance in Mice on High-Fat Diet

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, Georgetown Lombardi, liver cancer, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

• Georgetown Lombardi Clinical Trial Helps Advance Use of Immunotherapy in Liver Cancer

  Category: GUMC Stories Tags: cancer, cancer research, clinical trials, liver cancer