Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Alok Khorana, MD Time from new cancer diagnosis to starting treatment has increased over the past two decades - the median time to treatment at large academic centers is over six weeks. Delays in treatment are potentially linked to worse survival in certain cancers, especially early-stage...

Researchers block two cancer cell signaling pathways and slow tumor growth Blocking two molecular pathways that send signals inside cancer cells could stave off esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC), the most common esophageal malignancy in the United States, according to new research from a team led by ...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center invites the campus community to attend the third annual Cancer Disparities Symposium Friday, March 1, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Tinkham Veale University Center. Symposium speakers will include prominent researchers, clinicians and community organizations devote...

Two projects focus on racial disparities in colorectal and breast cancer The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center received a three-year, nearly $3.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to investigate colorectal and breast cancer health disparities. The grant is one of only four Specialized ...

Members of the Case Western Reserve University community are invited to participate in the 2019 Shave It Off event to support the St. Baldrick’s Foundation. This year’s event will be held Friday, March 8, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital performa...

National Institutes of Health funded research to study cancer patients with HIV/AIDS AIDS patients suffer higher rates of cancer because they have fewer T-cells in their bodies to fight disease. But new research examines why HIV-infected patients have higher rates of cancer—among the leading causes ...

Case Western Reserve researchers pioneer new computer imaging method to detect likelihood of cancer based on changes in blood vessels and regions outside tumor Scientists in Anant Madabhushi’s computational imaging lab at Case Western Reserve University have started thinking outside the box—or in th...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has made pilot award selections following a recent RFA. Selected projects were recognized as highly innovative and impactful, and likely to generate key data for larger, nationally competitive grants. Investigators were permitted to submit transformati...

Members of the campus community can stop by Undergraduate Student Nurses Association’s tables in the Biomedical Research Building and Tinkham Veale University Center today (Nov. 16) until 3 p.m. to have their cheek swabbed—and potentially save a life someday. This event is a collection of samples t...

Targeting longnNoncoding RNAs may offer gains compared to conventional approaches Certain genes that code for proteins have long been known to contribute to cancer progression. But in a frame shift, researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine recently found that non-coding ge...