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VP Joe Biden highlights Case Comprehensive Cancer Center's collaborations as critical to Cancer Moonshot
Stanton Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, introduced Vice President Joe Biden at a Cleveland event on Thursday afternoon. Vice President Joe Biden came to Cleveland Thursday with a simple message for physicians and scientists fighting cancer: collaborate. Speaking at his fi...
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Watch livestream of White House's Cleveland Cancer Moonshot Summit
Tune in Wednesday, June 29, as cancer researchers doctors, scientists, philanthropists, community oncologists, advocates, patients, and survivors come together for the Cleveland Cancer Moonshot Summit. The White House organized the national summit on behalf of Vice President Joe Biden. The summit s...
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Cleveland researchers developing GPS for rectal cancer surgery
Risk score would determine who would benefit from chemoradiation alone Researchers estimate that, in the United States annually, up to 10,000 rectal cancer patients undergo unnecessary surgery, and more than 25,000 suffer from pelvic sepsis, wound infection and permanent impairments from aggressive ...
Case CCC Annual Scientific Retreat - Register Today
Please join us for an outstanding Cancer Center Annual Scientific Retreat, July 7-8, 2016. The organizing committee [Yogen Saunthararajah (Co-Chair), Nicole Steinmetz (Co-Chair), Eli Bar, Jill Barnholtz-Sloan, Barbara Bedogni, Chris Flask, Alex Huang, Ruth Keri, Goutham Narla, Nima Sharifi, Scott W...
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting starts today in Chicago. The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has many members participating, presenting, and leading sessions. Click here to view a full list of participation. Please support your colleagues if you are attending the m...
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Researchers’ findings offer promise for the development of new treatments for chronic pain and cancer
Mapping of the full-length TRPV2 protein structure could advance design of innovative pharmaceutical compounds A team led by researchers at ϳԹ’s School of Medicine has identified a promising new target for the development of treatments for chronic pain and some cancers. ...
Music department hosts concert to help blow cancer away, one note at a time
When Ryan Anthony first felt sharp pains in his ribs while blowing into his trumpet, he never imagined he’d be diagnosed with multiple myeloma—a cancer of the cells formed in his bone marrow—and given two to three years to live. Anthony was just 43, with an extremely rare and incurable disease that...
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Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Program Leader Named to National “Moonshot” Advisory Group
Alex Huang, MD, PhD, co-Leader of the Hematopoietic and Immune Cancer Biology Program of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and pediatric oncologist at the Angie Fowler Adolescent & Young Adult Cancer Institute at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, has been named to a selec...
Sharing Genomic Data
In an effort to move to the next stage of genomic research big data, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has established a new genomic data commons: https://gds.nih.gov/. All investigators can access this site to query genomics data across large populations. This will take you beyond The Cancer Ge...
ϳԹ researchers identify significant mutational targets in colon cancer
Research may offer clue into biologic role of these genes in tumor progression Little is known about the molecular basis of aberrant protein glycosylation, a complex enzymatic process that is a hallmark of many human cancers—including colorectal cancers (CRC). Yet in a recent study published in the ...