Patient Care UR Medicine Helps Genesee County Family Embrace Heart of Holidays By Leslie White Dec. 21, 2017 Carrie Thornley Fisher was in heart failure near the end of her second pregnancy. After giving birth to a healthy boy, the 32-year-old spent nearly two months on life-saving mechanical support until ...
Research Wilmot Scientists Reap Awards, Presentations at Hematology Meeting By Leslie Orr Dec. 7, 2017 Wilmot Cancer Institute has a longstanding strength in the study of blood cancers—and from Dec. 9-12, many of our scientists will be presenting research at the 59th annual meeting of the American ...
Patient Care From AML to Ph.D.: How Wilmot helped one patient diagnosed with leukemia By Lydia Fernandez Oct. 5, 2017 Ege Ozen was working toward his Ph.D. in Political Science when he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). His oncology team at Wilmot and his wife have helped him through, and he achieved ...
Research In Lifetime of Achievement, URMC Hematologist is Grateful for Opportunities, Longevity By Leslie Orr Aug. 24, 2017 Marshall A. Lichtman, M.D., a University of Rochester hematologist/oncologist and former dean of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, will receive one of the highest honors in his field from the ...
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.
Research Wilmot Discovery Improves Use of Umbilical Cord Blood as Cancer Therapy By Leslie Orr Jan. 3, 2017 A clinician/scientist, who studies ways to make cord-blood transplants for leukemia and lymphoma patients safer and more effective, recently reported a new finding in the journal, Blood. An ...
Research As Leukemia Evolves, Stem Cells Hold Keys to Newer Therapies By Leslie Orr Aug. 29, 2016 A recent study by University of Rochester Medical Center researchers proves why leukemia is so difficult to treat and suggests that the current approach to drug development should be adjusted to ...
Patient Care Wilmot Cancer Institute celebrates 3,000th blood and marrow transplant By Lydia Fernandez Aug. 27, 2016 The Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program at UR Medicine’s Wilmot Cancer Institute recently performed its 3,000th transplant. The program, which opened in 1989, treats both adults and children ...
Research What rare diseases do we study at URMC? By URMC Communications Feb. 29, 2016 Rare diseases affect approximately 25 million people in the U.S., but less than 5 percent of these illnesses have a treatment. With the help of patients and their families, physicians and scientists ...
Research Aiming at Cellular ‘Neighborhood’ around Blood Cancer Improves Outcomes By URMC Communications Dec. 18, 2015 Wilmot Cancer Institute investigators have shown direct evidence of how changes in the blood-cell manufacturing environment can cause cells to malfunction and turn cancerous. The research, reported ...
