Case Comprehensive Cancer Center

At the end of this week, many of you will be attending the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in New Orleans. Once again, we are excited to have many members and trainees participating, presenting, and leading sessions. If we accidentally missed anyone, please…

This year, the campus community will come together once again for Relay for Life Saturday, April 16, at 11:30 a.m. at the Bill Sudeck Track at the North Residential Village. This year’s event will be 15 hours—down from last year’s 18—and will conclude at 3 a.m. Sunday, April 17. The event’s…

As you are aware, Vice President Biden and President Obama announced the Cancer Moonshot during the 2016 State of the Union Address. Since that time, there has been considerable development of efforts both on the part of the Executive Branch and through the NCI. In the course of this effort, we…

Advance aims at detecting cancers earlier, improving treatment and outcomes Physicists and engineers at Case Western Reserve University have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured metamaterials, that’s 1 million times more sensitive than the current best available—one capable of…

The National Center for Regenerative Medicine will host the biannual Cancer Stem Cell conference Sept. 20-23 at the Hilton Hotel Downtown-Lakeside. The conference seeks to foster new collaborations across national and international boundaries. It will address the translation of bench-top science…

Guest Author: Davendra Sohal, MD, MPH A very well-written recent news story in The New York Times, "When Gene Tests for Breast Cancer Reveal Grim Data but No Guidance," described critical elements of the role of genomics in cancer care, and the problems that doctors face while making decisions…

Guest Author: Li Li, MD, PhD Earlier this week the National Cancer Institute released The Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer (1975-2012). While this report shows a continuing trend of decline of mortality for most cancers for both men and women, thanks largely to progress in prevention…

Guest Author: Neal Meropol, MD Timely (within 24 months of completion) reporting of the results of clinical trials in ClinicalTrials.gov is a federal mandate. Case Western Reserve University was found to be a top performer in a recent study of all clinical trials (not just cancer) listed on this…

Faster, cheaper test predicts who needs chemotherapy or just hormonal regimen For women with the most common type of breast cancer, a new way to analyze magnetic resonance images (MRI) data appears to distinguish reliably between patients who would need only hormonal treatment and those who also…

A new report published in the journal Neuro-Oncology and funded by the American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)finds that malignant brain tumors are the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in adolescents and young adults aged 15-39 and the most common cancer occurring among 15-19 year…