Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

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...

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 Center...

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 Nas...

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, ...

Tune in this Friday, September 21 at 10am EST for a Facebook Live event to get a behind-the-scenes look at how Case Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers right here in Cleveland area exploring new ways to detect and treat cancer. Presented in collaboration with ideastream, host Marlene Harris-Tayl...

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 th...

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 Center...

The 2018 Case Comprehensive Cancer Center Annual Scientific Retreat focused on the interface between the strategic scientific initiatives and the 7 Research Programs, to help link innovative efforts with the breadth of research of our members. The program was a resounding success with terrific pres...

Case Western Reserve researchers develop system that senses smoking movements, sends motivational text messages, videos to help users quit smoking Researchers at Case Western Reserve University are using wearable sensor technology to develop an automatic alert system to help people quit smoking. Th...