Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released findings from the CDC, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that cigarette smoking has reached the lowest level ever recorded among US adults, 14% in the year of 2017. The release notes 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...

A team of investigators led by Nima Sharifi, MD, GU Malignancies Program Leader, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Kendrick Family Chair for Prostate Cancer Research at Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, have been awarded the 2018 Mizel Family Foundation PCF VAlor Challenge Award for th...

The Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has been awarded a five-year, $1.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to fund a newly created program that will engage undergraduate scholars in cancer research. The Cancer-focused Summer Undergraduate Research program (CanSUR) will be le...

The Office of Cancer Disparities Research of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) has made pilot award selections following a recent RFA. The awards are an effort to stimulate research designed to both improve understanding of contributing factors to cancer disparities as well as develop...

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 bre...

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 Development...

A five-year grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of $4.7 million is funding research by two Case Comprehensive Cancer Center members. "About 20% of [patients with cancer] develop blood clots, which can cause stroke, hospitalization, and delays in treatment. In fact, cancer-associ...