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Guest Author: Ruth Keri, PhD This past month, Gary Gilliland, Director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, penned a commentary for the Association of American Cancer Institutes, emphasizing the need for women and other underrepresented groups in science and describing his goals for gende...

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University combined finely crafted nanoparticles with one of nature’s potent disrupters to prevent the spread of triple-negative breast cancer in mouse models. The highly aggressive cancer subtype is difficult to manage and the FDA has no approved targeted treatm...

From: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Think Cultural Health (TCH) Think Cultural Health (TCH), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, is dedicated to advancing health equity at every point of contact. With growing concerns about healt...

Gillian Marshall Can neighborhood factors influence whether older residents have access to cancer screening information and testing? Gillian Marshall, assistant professor of social work at Case Western Reserve University’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, plans to ...

On Saturday evening, the Coach Bill Sudeck Track in North Residential Village will glow in remembrance of those who have lost their battle with cancer and in support of those who are fighting it. The 8:15 p.m. Luminaria Ceremony is one of the most recognizable events of the 18-hour Relay For Life, w...

Case Western Reserve scientists collaborate with China’s Lanzhou University investigators in exploring the dual-compound strategy Li Li The concept was simple: If two compounds each individually show promise in preventing colon cancer, surely it’s worth trying the two together to see if even great...

The next installment of Science Café Cleveland will feature a discussion about treatment for patients with breast cancer Monday, April 13, from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Tasting Room of Great Lakes Brewing Co. Stanton L. Gerson, director of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and professor of hematology ...

Colleges Against Cancer will host Case Western Reserve University’s first Cancer Research Fair on Friday, April 3, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the ballroom of Thwing Center. Michelle Zimmerman of the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network and Robert Brown, a Distinguished University Professor ...

Prepared by Jan Hanson, MPH – Case Comprehensive Cancer Center and Valerie Vinson, M.Ed, LSW – University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center Community Outreach Program What is unconscious bias? Unconscious bias, also known as implicit bias or implicit social cognition, is the concept that many of ou...

As a precursor to the showing of the documentary Ken Burns Presents: Cancer—The Emperor of All Maladies, ideastream (90.3 WCPN, WVIZ/PBS and bewell.ideastream.org) has embarked on a project to cover regional cancer stories from a range of perspectives. Within this series, the Case Comprehensive Canc...