Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center will host its next seminar series event, featuring Derek M. Griffith, associate professor of medicine, health and society and director of the Center for Research on Men’s Health at Vanderbilt University. Griffith will present “Context, Challenges &…

Investigators at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center have developed a simple, swallowable test for early detection of Barrett's esophagus that offers promise for preventing deaths from esophageal…

Researchers repurpose pain meds to kill cancer cells Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCCC) at Case Western Reserve University have helped develop a computer program to find new indications for old drugs. The computer program, called DrugPredict, matches existing data about…

The CVS Health Foundation awarded the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center $130,000 to expand its smoking-cessation program and reach more at-risk patients. The center was one of eight Association of American Cancer Institute member cancer centers to receive funding, with $1 million awarded in…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center organizes strategic meeting in Atlanta to plan next three to five years Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine are focusing their efforts on adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer research.…

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center organizes strategic meeting in Atlanta to plan next three to five years Researchers at the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine are focusing their efforts on adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer research. More…

Over the past year, the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center has undertaken a program and center-wide effort to identify our scientific initiatives for the next 6 years, and to integrate these with our research programs. This effort engaged the help of our entire membership, guided by our Executive…

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Office of Cancer Disparities Research will host the second annual Cancer Disparities Symposium, titled “Taking it to the Streets: Where Cancer Disparities Research and Community Intersect," Friday, March 23. The symposium will bring together researchers,…

Last week, Lancet Oncology released a special report, "Future Cancer Research Priorities in the USA: A Lancet Oncology Commission." As co-author of this report, I joined fellow cancer research experts across the nation to lay out a detailed roadmap to deliver on the Cancer Moonshot Blue Ribbon…

Stanton Gerson, a Distinguished University Professor, the Asa and Patricia Shiverick-Jane Shiverick (Tripp) Professor of Hematological Oncology, and director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, was one of more than 50 leading oncologists in the U.S. that co-authored a report in The Lancet…