Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

The St. Baldrick's Foundation head-shaving event has become an annual spring ritual. On March 5, people will shave their heads in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during treatment while raising critical funds for childhood cancer research. At the March 2021…

Case Western Reserve-led research team identifies biomarker to identify which patients with oropharyngeal cancer will benefit from therapy ‘de-escalation’ A Case Western Reserve University-led team of scientists has used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify which patients with certain head and…

Researchers identify set of patterns from CT scans to help predict patient’s response to chemotherapy Researchers at the Center for Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics (CCIPD) at Case Western Reserve University have used artificial intelligence (AI) to identify patterns on computed…

Blanton S. Tolbert, vice dean for diversity, equity and inclusive excellence for Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, was recently appointed as the first associate director for diversity, equity and inclusion for the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center. The newly created associate director role…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

Findings shed light on which tumors may respond better to immune checkpoint blockade therapy