Research URMC Research: Protecting Hearts of Childhood Leukemia Survivors By Leslie Orr Jun. 4, 2012 About 75 percent of children with leukemia who take chemotherapy face life-threatening heart problems as they age, but an international study led by a University of Rochester Medical Center ...
Education Wilmot Cancer Center at Forefront of Geriatric Oncology Education, Research By URochester Medicine Communications May. 30, 2012 As more than 34,000 oncologists from diverse locations throughout the U.S. and the world gather in Chicago for the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) annual meeting later this week (June ...
Research “Just Do It!” Not Good Enough for Cancer Patients, UR Researchers Say By Leslie Orr May. 29, 2012 Exercise generally helps the nation’s 12 million cancer survivors, and researchers are working toward being able to prove, with scientific certainty, that prescriptions for daily yoga or 20 minutes ...
Research Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Ph.D., Named Fellow in Elite Leadership Program By URochester Medicine Communications May. 28, 2012 Yuhchyau Chen, M.D., Pd.D., Philip Rubin Professor and chair of Radiation Oncology at the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center, has been accepted into the 2012-2013 class of Fellows for the Hedwig van ...
Research Vitamin D + TB Vaccine: Allies in Fight Against Bladder Cancer? By Leslie Orr May. 21, 2012 The tuberculosis vaccine is often used as a treatment for bladder cancer, and adding vitamin D might improve the vaccine’s effectiveness, according to new research from the University of Rochester ...
Education Megan MacKenzie to Receive Wilmot Cancer Center Inspiration Award By URochester Medicine Communications Apr. 26, 2012 The intensity and physical battles that Megan MacKenzie witnessed up close during her career as an ice hockey official were nothing compared to what she would face in her personal fight with breast ...
Research Bile – not Acid – is Bad Guy in Triggering Precancerous Condition Associated with Reflux Disease By Emily Boynton Apr. 23, 2012 For many people with gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD, acid reflux drugs are the answer to their woes, curbing the chronic heartburn and regurgitation of food or sour liquid characteristic of ...
Research Gary Morrow, Ph.D., Receives National Mentorship Award By Leslie Orr Apr. 12, 2012 To honor a 36-year career during which he has mentored more than 50 young professionals in medicine and science, Gary R. Morrow, Ph.D., M.S., today received the Distinguished Research Mentor Award ...
Research Report Highlights Understudied, Unwelcome Side of Cancer Treatment By Leslie Orr Mar. 6, 2012 The number of cancer survivors in the United States has tripled since 1971 and yet gains in survival have come at the price of second malignancies and cardiovascular disease, according to a ...
Research Wilmot Researchers Create New Way to Study Liver Cancer By URochester Medicine Communications Mar. 5, 2012 Researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center’s James P. Wilmot Cancer Center have made significant strides in the study of a primary cancer of the liver– Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma ...
