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Grant backs nursing program to increase patient participation in clinical cancer trials
ϳԹ medical and nursing school researchers hope to drastically increase the number of qualified cancer patients who participate in clinical trials, a critical step in testing and developing new treatments and preventions. For various reasons—including a lack of awareness...
ϳԹ, UH announce collaborative fundraising initiative for Adolescent and Young Adult cancer
Announcement comes as Char and Chuck Fowler make third major gift to help defeat the disease, inspiring an anonymous donor to commit $5 million as well Leaders from ϳԹ and University Hospitals Monday announced a new collaborative fundraising effort focused on Adolescent ...
CTSC/Coulter grant awarded to biomedical engineering, medicine faculty
Anant Madabhushi, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and investigators at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, including Lyndsay Harris, professor of medicine-hematology and oncology, and Hannah Gilmore, assistant professor of pathology, were awarded a one-year Clinica...
Study shows aspirin can reduce colorectal cancer risks for those with specific gene
Sanford Markowitz The humble aspirin may have just added another beneficial effect beyond its ability to ameliorate headaches and reduce the risk of heart attacks: lowering colon cancer risk among people with high levels of a specific type of gene. The extraordinary finding comes from a multi-inst...
Celebrate real-life superheroes at this weekend’s Relay For Life
Last weekend, Marvel’s Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier hit the big screen, featuring superheroes battling adversity with Cleveland as their backdrop. This weekend, the ϳԹ community can see real-life heroes: those battling cancer, supporting their loved ones in thei...
Using big data to identify triple-negative breast, oropharyngeal and lung cancers
Researchers at ϳԹ and colleagues used “big data” analytics to predict if a patient is suffering from aggressive triple-negative breast cancer, slower-moving cancers or non-cancerous lesions with 95 percent accuracy. If the tiny patterns they found in magnetic resonance ...
Researchers discover pathway of protein that helps cancer cells survive
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers' discovery could lead to better treatment outcomes A team of researchers from ϳԹ School of Medicine has discovered how the cancer-related protein Bcl-2 signals cancer cells to live longer. The breakthrough emerged when the scientists dis...
Research team discovers key mechanisms to inhibit triple negative breast cancers
Findings could lead to life-saving treatments to fight tumor metastasis A team of researchers from Cleveland Clinic and ϳԹ School of Medicine have identified critical complex mechanisms involved in the metastasis of deadly “triple negative” breast cancers (TNBC). These tumors are e...
ϳԹ, Cleveland Clinic and UH launch venture to advance analysis of medical data
Renowned genetic scientist to lead collaboration to use lessons from big data to benefit individual patients, broader communities ϳԹ, Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals announced the launch of the Institute of Computational Biology, an innovative venture designed...
ϳԹ researchers use nanotechnology to fight aggressive cancers
Researchers at ϳԹ have received two grants totaling nearly $1.7 million to build nanoparticles that seek and destroy metastases too small to be detected with current technologies. They are targeting aggressive cancers that persist through traditional chemotherapy and ca...