Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
May 03, 2018
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will host a seminar series event Friday, May 4, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. The event will feature Donald I. Abrams, who is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF),…
April 19, 2018
On Saturday morning, April 7, a group of Bolton Middle School 7th grade students from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District came to the CWRU School of Medicine for a lively three-hour experience, "Learn to Beat Cancer," sponsored by the CWRU Center for Science, Health & Society and the Case…
April 19, 2018
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will host its next seminar series event Friday, April 20, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. The event will feature Suzanne J. Baker, director of the brain tumor research division; associate director for basic…
April 12, 2018
We are already preparing for VeloSano 5 - an annual bike ride dedicated to finding a cure for cancer. I hope you will join us for the ride on July 21-22! All of the funds raised through VeloSano support cancer research. This event has quickly grown into the largest fundraising event for cancer…
April 12, 2018
Obesity can also alter a young person’s likelihood of developing cancer later in life A Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine researcher has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis…
April 10, 2018
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will host a seminar series event Friday, April 13, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium. The event will feature Theodora Ross, who holds the Jeanne Ann Plitt Professorship in Breast Cancer Research and is the H.…
March 27, 2018
Researchers from across the university are invited to apply for American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grants (IRG) Awards to receive pilot funding for cancer-related research in basic, clinical, prevention and control, behavioral, health sciences and epidemiology. The American Cancer…
March 26, 2018
Respected Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researcher, Nathan A. Berger, MD, has compiled evidence from more than 100 publications to show how obesity increases risk of 13 different cancers in young adults. The meta-analysis describes how obesity has shifted certain cancers to younger age groups,…
March 22, 2018
The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center invites the campus community to the second annual Cancer Disparities Symposium Friday, March 23, from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building auditorium and atrium. This year’s event is themed “Taking it to the Streets: Where…
March 16, 2018
Kathy Miller wanted to make a difference in the lives of children with cancer. But she knew she wouldn’t be the one discovering a cure, and she doesn’t have day-to-day interaction with patients. So Miller, director of operations in the Department of Population & Quantitative Health Sciences,…