Tag: cancer
Medical student keeps up academics and diversity work in spite of his own cancer diagnosis
As a medical student at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, Omar Salman had learned a lot about cancer: from what goes wrong at the cellular level to cause it as well as patient risk factors and treatment options.
Graduating cancer survivor embraces a career as an artist
Sandy Williams IV found his niche at the University of Virginia. The fourth-year student spends hours in Ruffin Hall.
Virginia Tech doctoral student shares cancer research with high school students
Brittany Balhouse originally planned to study civil engineering, but a career fair exhibit on biomedical engineering captured her attention.
Chris Dewald: Colon cancer for caregivers
Hello, my friends. This is a difficult subject as I had written about my own dealings with cancer.
Researchers closer to understanding how certain cancers resist treatment
An international team has discovered that an abnormal amount of chromosomes may be why certain cancers resist medical treatment.
Augusta Health Events Calendar – April 2016
2016 calendar for Augusta Health including blood pressure screening, Kid’s Day, Lunch and Learn, screenings, classes and support group information.
Financial burdens affect health, quality of life for cancer survivors
Cancer survivors with financial difficulties have a higher risk of depressed mood and psychological distress.
Augusta Health Events Calendar – March 2016
2016 calendar for Augusta Health including blood pressure screening, Kid’s Day, Lunch and Learn, screenings, classes and support group information.
UVA Cancer Center: HPV vaccine critical for cancer prevention
UVA Cancer Center has joined the 68 other National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers in releasing a statement supporting vaccination against human papillomavirus to help prevent HPV-related cancers.
Randy Forbes: Trailblazing a cure
The Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act, which I’ve cosponsored, expands opportunities for childhood cancer research.
Prostate cancer discovery may make it easier to kill cancer cells
A newly discovered connection between two common prostate cancer treatments may soon make prostate cancer cells easier to destroy.
SunTrust supports Cancer Services Bridge Fund at Augusta Health
Vic Gilchrist, senior vice president, commercial banking, at SunTrust, presents a check for $5,000 to Augusta Health Foundation Executive Tami Radecke to support the Cancer Services Bridge Fund.
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientists take first up-close look at activity in human breast cancer cells
Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute scientist Deborah Kelly has developed a new set of tools to peer into the active world of cancer cells at unprecedented resolution.
UVA study IDs dramatic benefits of weight-loss surgery
A study evaluating the effects of bariatric surgery on obese women most at risk for cancer has found that the weight-loss surgery slashed participants’ weight by a third and eliminated precancerous uterine growths in those that had them.
Virginia Tech scientist furthering research field of structural oncology to study BRCA1 mutations
Deborah Kelly, an assistant professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, was recently awarded a $1.8 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health, to develop an innovative technique to investigate what causes proteins to err.
Cancer: Cell discovery may fundamentally alter treatment
University of Virginia School of Medicine researchers have discovered a new strategy for attacking cancer cells that could fundamentally alter the way doctors treat and prevent the deadly disease.
Richmond International Raceway goes gold to honor Jeff Gordon and support childhood cancer awareness
September is national Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, and patients, families, researchers and charities, including the Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation and Richmond International Raceway, are rallying to bring awareness and raise funds for childhood cancer research, treatment, patient support and survivorship issues.
Virginia Tech researchers show cancer markers may arise early during human development
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have uncovered a link between the genomes of cells originating in the neural crest and development of tumors — a discovery that could lead to new ways to diagnose and treat cancer.
Virginia Tech student investigates how environmental stress could promote tumor cell growth
In a well-lit laboratory on the southwest side of campus, Virginia Tech undergraduate Kimberly Soto-Alvarado focused a high-resolution microscope on a bright orange liquid in a small clear flask.
Strange circular DNAs may offer way to detect cancers
Strange rings of DNA that exist outside chromosomes are distinct to the cell types that mistakenly produced them, researchers have discovered. The finding raises the tantalizing possibility that the rings could be used as an indicator of different types of cancer.
Virginia Tech cancer biologists find a key that may unlock how tumors form and progress
An international team of scientists, led by a Virginia Tech researcher, determined that the number of chromosomes in a cell may be a key to understanding how cancer forms and progresses – a finding that could help inform new treatments.
Life-saving breast cancer drugs going untaken in Appalachia, study finds
Nearly a third of breast cancer survivors in Appalachia are not taking the critical, potentially life-saving follow-up treatment – despite having insurance that would pay for it, a troubling new study has found.
ODU basketball coach Jeff Jones diagnosed with prostate cancer
Old Dominion University head men’s basketball coach Jeff Jones has been diagnosed with prostate cancer and will undergo surgery to treat it, ODU announced today.
Four cancer charities charged with bilking over $187 million from consumers
Attorney General Mark Herring today joined the Federal Trade Commission and 58 law enforcement partners from every state and the District of Columbia to announce that they have charged four sham cancer charities and their operators with bilking more than $187 million from consumers.
‘Junk DNA’ holds key to a new detection method for ovarian cancer
Researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute of Virginia Tech have discovered new possibilities for detecting ovarian cancer using microsatellite variations.
