Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
October 29, 2021
Part 2 of the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer finds that cancer patients in the United States shoulder a large amount of cancer care costs. In 2019, the national patient economic burden associated with cancer care was $21.09 billion, made up of patient out-of-pocket costs…
October 25, 2021
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month—an ideal time to join the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center for its annual Great Lakes Breast Cancer Symposium, to be held virtually Oct. 25-26. The event will highlight ongoing basic, translational, clinical and population studies addressing the biological…
October 19, 2021
Company’s esophageal cancer prevention tests developed jointly by medical school faculty at Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Lucid Diagnostics Inc., a company that produces esophageal cancer tests based on Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals…
October 14, 2021
The center will support a multi-investigator research team focused on discerning the role of the tumor microenvironment in breast cancer progression. Ruth Keri, PhD, staff in the Department of Cancer Biology and associate director for basic research at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and…
October 11, 2021
The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has awarded Department of Quantitative Health Sciences researcher Ming Hu, PhD, a five-year, $2.4 million grant to study how chromatin is organized within cells and its implications for human health and disease. The grant is part of NHGRI’s…
October 07, 2021
Findings shed light on which tumors may respond better to immune checkpoint blockade therapy
October 07, 2021
Join the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center for a presentation featuring Jiyoung Ahn, professor of population health (epidemiology) at New York University Grossman School of Medicine and associate director for population science at NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center. Ahn will present "Microbiota in Human…
October 04, 2021
Stephanie Schmit, PhD, MPH, Genomic Medicine Institute, has been awarded a five-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (part of the National Institutes of Health) to investigate how differences in immunological factors drive disparities in colorectal cancer (CRC) outcomes among…
October 04, 2021
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is hosting a research retreat for all Cancer Center clinical researchers on Wednesday, October 20 from 5-7p on Zoom. This clinical research retreat will feature a dialogue with a panel of community members who have participated in clinical trials. As part of…
September 27, 2021
Teenagers and young adults ages 15–30 who are diagnosed with cancer often face unique challenges. Each September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month challenges advocates to work to help overcome them. Char and Chuck Fowler witnessed these challenges firsthand when their 14-year-old daughter, Angie,…