Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

An international team of researchers and clinicians participated in the SWOG Cancer Research Network's POEMS clinical trial. While initial findings released in 2014 were positive, the follow-up results 5 years later are groundbreaking.  The trial included patients with hormone-receptor negative…

The fall 2018 Mini Med Series will conclude with a talk titled “Lung Cancer” Monday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Tinkham Veale University Center. Afshin Dowlati, the Rosalie and Morton Cohen Chair in Lung Cancer and the Lucile and Robert Gries Endowed Director of the Center for Cancer Drug…

Learn how your body works and how new medical breakthroughs may affect you with the Mini-Med Series. Held on Mondays beginning Oct. 8, the series will be composed of five sessions led by Case Western Reserve University faculty members.  Stan Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer…