Patient Care Following Family History By Lydia Fernandez Jul. 12, 2017 Wilmot's new Hereditary Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction Clinic supports patients with inherited cancer syndromes and strong family histories of cancer.
Patient Care Strategies for eating safely at summer picnics By Lydia Fernandez Jul. 1, 2017 Summer picnics and barbecues are a great time for family and friends but if your immune system is weakened by cancer treatment, these events can also be fraught with food-safety challenges. That ...
Patient Care Finding Hope and Time By Lydia Fernandez Jun. 21, 2017 A complex, innovative surgical procedure offers a new option for those facing metastatic colorectal cancer.
Patient Care Gene Study Points Researchers toward New Pathway for Leukemia By Lydia Fernandez May. 18, 2017 Leukemia is one of the hardest cancers to treat, but scientists have discovered a new, targetable pathway in one of the worst subtypes of the disease.
Patient Care With Fresh Perspectives, Research Team Studies Needs of Older Patients By Lydia Fernandez Jan. 9, 2017 Wilmot researchers are taking on a wide variety of investigations all under the umbrella of “cancer and aging,” including studies of biomarkers for aging, the way aging cells respond to the stressful ...
Patient Care Building Bridges: Researchers Link to Community By Lydia Fernandez Jan. 9, 2017 As researchers in Wilmot’s Cancer Control and Survivorship Program, Charles Kamen, Ph.D., and Matt Asare, Ph.D., have been focusing on the best ways to deliver clinical trials to underserved patients ...
Patient Care Hot Topic: Manipulating Cell Metabolism to Attack Cancer By Lydia Fernandez Jan. 9, 2017 Wilmot scientists have identified cancer-causing mutations that control and alter the way cancer cells biosynthesize and replicate.
Patient Care Pathologist Seeks Earlier Answers for Families with Lynch Syndrome By Lydia Fernandez Jan. 9, 2017 Lynch syndrome is one of the most common inherited conditions that raises a person’s risk of colorectal cancer. Pathologist Jennifer Findeis-Hosey, M.D., is looking for ways to identify clinical and ...
Patient Care Cellular Environment Surrounding Cancer Cells: Friend or Foe? By Lydia Fernandez Jan. 9, 2017 Studying the microenvironment is a research pillar at the Wilmot Cancer Institute, and scientists are looking at it from every angle.
Patient Care Cancer: How Do I Tell My Kids? By URMC Communications Jan. 6, 2017 One of the hardest parts of a cancer diagnosis can be breaking the news to children. Wilmot Cancer Institute Social Worker Judy Zeeman-Golden shares advice on talking to kids about cancer.
