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  • On the Forefront of Offering Rectal Cancer Clinical Trials
    May 10, 2023
  • UVMCC and NCI investigators discover breast cancer compromises the human histone gene landscape
    May 10, 2023
  • Seward Lab Lands Two-Year National Cancer Institute R21 Grant
    April 18, 2023
    UVM Cancer Center member David J. Seward, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, received a prestigious two-year National Cancer Institute R21 grant to investigate why lung cancers with a certain set of mutations demonstrate immunotherapy resistance.
  • UVM Cancer Center members and trainees attend ASCO 2023
    April 12, 2023
  • UVM Cancer Center Members Identify a Unique Population of Cells in Breast Cancer Patients
    April 7, 2023
  • NBC5 Reports on Study by Nowak, Sprague, et al. Showing Drop in Breast Cancer Screenings
    March 30, 2023
    (MARCH 30, 2023) Researchers at the UVM Cancer Center released the findings of a study showing fewer women being screened for breast cancer, NBC5 reported. The study reports that Vermont had the second-largest drop in the entire country in screenings for women over the age of 40 between 2009 and 2018.
    Read full story from NBC5
  • Study Finds Revised Mammography Guidelines May Have Impacted Drop in Screenings
    March 29, 2023
    UVM Cancer Center researchers Sarah Nowak, Ph.D., and Brian Sprague, Ph.D., found that a 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force change in guidelines led to an unintended consequence: a decline in mammography screening rates for all age groups, including the 50-74 group, which is most at risk of developing breast cancer and most in need of screenings. Their results were recently published in The American Journal of Preventative Medicine.
  • Alan Howe Appointed Associate Director of Cancer Research, Training, and Education
    March 27, 2023
    Alan Howe, Ph.D., associate professor of pharmacology, has been appointed to serve as associate director of cancer research, training and education coordination for the University of Vermont Cancer Center (UVMCC) .
  • Q & A: Steve Lidofsky, MD, PhD on preventing liver cancer
    March 24, 2023
  • UVM Cancer Center Offers Innovative New Cancer Treatment
    February 22, 2023
    The University of Vermont Cancer Center now offers a novel, highly effective form of cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy, and recently began treating patients. The Cancer Center is the only health care institution in Vermont and northern New York to provide the treatment.
  • Holcombe Named Associate Dean for Cancer Programs at UVM Larner College of Medicine
    February 21, 2023
    Randall F. Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., director of the UVM Cancer Center and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine, has been appointed as associate dean for cancer programs at the UVM Larner College of Medicine.
  • Weaver & Lester-Coll Examine Impact of Health Insurance Coverage on Liver Cancer Patients
    January 31, 2023
    An analysis by UVM medical student Benjamin Weaver and UVM Cancer Center member and Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology Nataniel Lester-Coll, M.D., illustrated both health disparities and parities across a cohort of 100,000+ patients with the most common form of liver cancer. Their results were published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
  • UVM Cancer Center Welcomes Two New Colleagues: Kate Tracy and Christa Varnadoe
    January 26, 2023
  • Rally Against Cancer Winter 2023
    January 20, 2023
  • New study explores race in the association of cytopenia and cancer death
    January 12, 2023
  • Charlotte News Lauds Janssen-Heininger as a ‘Humble Superstar’
    January 12, 2023
    (JANUARY 12, 2023) Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, is described as a “humble superstar” in an article about cancer research at UVM in The Charlotte (Vermont) News.
    Read full story from The Charlotte News
  • UVM’s Redox Researchers Collaborate with Scholars at Japan’s Tohoku University
    December 22, 2022
    Albert van der Vliet, Ph.D., professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, participated in a six-week Invited Fellowship at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, engaging in research on environmental medicine and molecular toxicology. The fellowship coincided with a medley of scientific meetings and symposia that brought together leading scientists from around the world in the specific research fields of nitric oxide biology. Dr. van der Vliet, Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., and Brian Cunniff, Ph.D. participated as invited speakers. Additional Japanese federal funding supports the exchange of invited researchers, graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to collaborate on research.
  • Lian, Stein, and Cushman Ranked Among Top Scientists in U.S.
    December 2, 2022
  • The Butler Family Foundation Fund for Cancer Research supports The Cunniff Lab in effort to discover and advance treatments for malignant mesothelioma
    November 30, 2022
  • Silver Linings: Remotely delivered exercise to older rural cancer survivors shows improved physical health
    November 19, 2022
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