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Our experts explain the impact of air quality on health and how to best protect ourselves.

Thanks to a groundbreaking nationwide study with Wilmot Director Jonathan Friedberg at the helm, a practice-changing treatment emerged for young people with Hodgkin lymphoma.

A quarter-century of cancer survivorship. That’s what Chris Costello is looking at. He credits it to a man who started out as a stranger but who, in the last 25 years, has become so close that he’ll ...

What should cancer patients know when it comes to mental health? Dr. Daniel McFarland shares his answers to a few questions on the topic.

Her cancer journey started when Nana, now age 12, felt a marble-like bump on her lower abdomen. Within months, it grew to the size of a tennis ball. A series of tests including a biopsy confirmed ...

Messenger RNA vaccines proved their worth in the COVID pandemic, and new software stands to make the already transformative technology even more powerful.

Christine Skivington was honored at Wilmot Cancer Institute’s annual Discovery Ball on May 6, 2023, for her inspiring story. She is the mother of three small children who faced an aggressive type of ...

Despite the changes that have occurred in medicine in recent decades, connection remains a key part of oncology nursing. What is it really like to be an oncology nurse? Three of our nurses shared ...

The University of Rochester’s leadership in the field of environmental medicine stretches back to toxicology research programs developed at the University under the Manhattan Project. These programs ...

Life-extending immunotherapies, like CAR T-cell cancer therapy, sometimes migrate to places they shouldn’t go. A Wilmot team discovered the molecule that guides T cells toward tumors, setting the ...