Community Crush Cancer Concert Honors Children's Hospital Patient and Helps Others By Rebecca Youmell Apr. 9, 2014 Friends and family of Hannah Metzler, a Fairport High School (FHS) junior and UR Medicine’s Golisano Children’s Hospital patient who passed away last month after a battle with brain cancer, will ...
Community Cancer Services Program Honored with W.B. Potter Founder’s Award By Karin Gaffney Christensen Apr. 3, 2014 Part of the Center for Community Health, CSP was recognized with the 2014 W.B. Potter Founder’s Award by the Ad Council of Rochester.
Research Using Cancer’s Fingerprint, UR Researchers Clinch a Diagnosis By URochester Medicine Communications Mar. 5, 2014 Rochester scientists are using a gene test to diagnose a difficult-to-detect form of bone marrow cancer an example of how academic medical centers are applying new technology in ways that play to ...
Education Colon Exhibit Aims to Raise Awareness of Cancer Screenings By Karin Gaffney Christensen Mar. 4, 2014 The Cancer Services Program of Monroe County, part of the Center for Community Health, in partnership with Cancer Mission 2020, led by Camp Good Days and Special Times, are joining forces to bring a ...
Patient Care News Anchor’s On-Air Colonoscopy Aims to Take Fear Away, Encourage Screenings By Lori Barrette Feb. 21, 2014 Kevin Doran, anchor for WROC-TV News 8, is inviting his audience to follow him through the process of his colonoscopy, in the hope of encouraging others to have the screening that can potentially ...
Patient Care Be Aware: Colonoscopy Can Screen for and Prevent Cancer By Lori Barrette Feb. 21, 2014 If you could take a few simple steps to prevent cancer, would you? Most of us like to think we’d do anything we can to stay healthy. Until your doctor says it’s time for a colonoscopy. Even the most ...
Research Prostate Cancer Danger Zone: More Likely for Older, Black Men By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 28, 2014 When prostate cancer is detected through a screening test and no symptoms are present, logic would say the disease is probably insignificant and the patient can avoid aggressive treatment. Yet ...
Research Scientist Lynne E. Maquat Named 2014 Athena Award Winner By Emily Boynton Jan. 15, 2014 Lynne E. Maquat, Ph.D., the J. Lowell Orbison Endowed Chair and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, was named ...
Education Nobel Laureate Speaking at School of Medicine & Dentistry By URochester Medicine Communications Jan. 5, 2014 The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is welcoming Nobel Laureate Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D. this month. Cech will deliver two talks in conjunction with the school’s third annual ...
Research What Does Compassion Sound Like? By Leslie Orr Dec. 25, 2013 “Good to see you. I’m sorry. It sounds like you’ve had a tough, tough, week.” Spoken by a doctor to a cancer patient, that statement is an example of compassionate behavior observed by a University ...
