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December 09, 2019
Young adults often "forgotten individuals" in cancer research
ideastream: Stanton L. Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Asa and Patricia Shiverick–Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology, and John Letterio, professor of pediatrics, discussed the natu...

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December 04, 2019
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers use AI with routine CT scans to predict how well lung cancer patients will respond to expensive treatment based off changes in texture patterns inside and outside the tumor
Scientists from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø digital imaging lab, already pioneering t...
November 27, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to George Stark, PhD as he was honored with the prestigious Steven C. Beering Award earlier this month.
From the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute: The prestigious award recognizes internationally regarded scientists for their co...

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November 21, 2019
Extra DNA scooped up and copied alongside cancer-causing genes helps keep tumors going—elements that could represent new drug targets for brain tumors and other cancers notoriously difficult to treat
One of the ways a
cancer-causing gene works up enough power to turn a normal cell into a cancer
cel...
October 25, 2019
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center extends congratulations to Halle Moore, MD, as earlier this week she was named director of breast medical oncology and co-director for the Comprehensive Breast Cancer Program at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Moore joined Cleveland Clinic in 1999 and will assume her new r...
October 18, 2019
Dear members of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center community:
I am happy to announce that John Pounardjian, MBA has been appointed Associate Director of Administration at our exceptional center.
This appointment comes after an extensive national search following the departure of former Associate...
October 18, 2019
For the past three years, the National Cancer Institute has funded the Youth Engaged in Science (YES) program at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø), introducing and training underrepresented minorities to cancer care and research professions. The program is led by Nathan Berger, MD.
Program alu...

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October 10, 2019
Participant in Youth Engaged in Science, a National Cancer Institute-funded program at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø
Connor Harris, a science-minded teenager from Hudson, Ohio, wants
to know why African-Americans die from colorectal cancer at a higher rate than
other racial groups.
His curiosity, fueled by...
October 07, 2019
William Kaelin, Jr., MD
William Kaelin, Jr. from Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University was jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe from Oxford University and Francis Crick Institute and Gregg L. Semenza from Johns Hop...
October 04, 2019
“Enfortumab vedotin plus pembrolizumab has the potential to become a platinum-free option for cisplatin-ineligible locally advanced and metastatic urothelial cancer patients in the first-line setting," said Christopher J. Hoimes, DO, hematologist/oncologist at University Hospitals, assistant profess...