Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
August 11, 2014
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...
June 30, 2014
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 ...
May 30, 2014
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...
April 24, 2014
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...
April 09, 2014
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...
April 03, 2014
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 ...
February 17, 2014
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...
January 28, 2014
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...
November 22, 2013
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...
November 21, 2013
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...