Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

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…

Ideastream health reporter Marlene Harris-Taylor will take viewers inside a lab at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center via a Facebook Live stream Friday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. Harris-Taylor will tour the facilities with Cleveland Clinic researcher Justin Lathia and Anant Madabhushi, the F. Alex…

Join fellow researchers, clinicians and community leaders at the third annual Cancer Disparities Symposium, “Eliminating Cancer Disparities: Staying the Course toward Collective Impact,” to be held Friday, March 1, at Tinkham Veale University Center. This event will showcase cutting-edge research,…

Lan Zhou, associate professor of pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health to study human colorectal cancer. Her work focuses on the effect of the imbalance of…

Researchers from the Center of Computational Imaging and Personalized Diagnostics and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center have been awarded a U.S. patent titled "Entropy-based radiogenomic descriptions on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for molecular characterization of breast cancer." The technology…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will open its 2018-19 seminar series Friday, Sept. 14, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. The event will feature Stephen B. Thomas, professor of health services administration and director of the Maryland…