Released: 15-May-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Experimental Immunotherapy Shows High Response Rate in Advanced Lung Cancer
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

An early phase study testing an anti-PDL1 agent in combination with standard chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced non-small cell lung cancer has provided promising early results, prompting multiple phase III studies in lung cancer. The findings are being presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) May 29-June 2 in Chicago.

26-May-2015 11:00 AM EDT
State Regulations for Indoor Tanning Could Lead to a National Regulatory Framework
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A national regulatory framework designed to prevent and limit indoor tanning is needed to alleviate the cancer burden and reduce the billions in financial costs from preventable skin cancer, say two Georgetown University public health experts.

Released: 6-Jul-2015 10:00 AM EDT
Protein Implicated in Osteosarcoma’s Spread Acts As Air Traffic Controller
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The investigation of a simple protein has uncovered its uniquely complicated role in the spread of the childhood cancer, osteosarcoma. It turns out the protein, called ezrin, acts like an air traffic controller, coordinating multiple functions within a cancer cell and allowing it to endure stress conditions encountered during metastasis.

Released: 20-Jul-2015 8:05 AM EDT
Georgetown’s Todd Waldman Awarded Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Innovation Grant
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a nonprofit dedicated to finding better treatments and ultimately cures for all children with cancer, has awarded a 2015 Innovation Grant to Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, a professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Released: 21-Jul-2015 9:00 AM EDT
Georgetown Physician Leads National Melanoma Study
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A Georgetown University Medical Center physician renowned for his research in melanoma will lead a new national clinical trial involving novel treatments for the disease. The study compares the sequencing of two groups of drugs — both effective in treating melanoma.

Released: 21-Jul-2015 8:30 AM EDT
USAID Awards $30M Grant to Georgetown’s Institute for Reproductive Health
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded $30 million to Georgetown University Medical Center’s Institute for Reproductive Health (IRH) to fund its Passages Project, which aims to improve healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies among youth and first-time parents in developing countries.

Released: 27-Jul-2015 1:05 PM EDT
Small Grants Supply the Research “Lifeblood” of Early Career Scientists
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Researchers are familiar with the old scientific mantra “publish or perish,” but it leaves out a critical early step. Securing grant funding for research is imperative for early-career scientists to perform their own independent research, publish in prestigious journals and ultimately earn university tenure.

Released: 1-Sep-2015 10:05 AM EDT
Georgetown Lombardi Offers New Melanoma Study Comparing Two Treatment Regimens
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A new nationwide clinical trial comparing two groups of drugs — both effective in treating melanoma.

Released: 9-Oct-2015 5:05 AM EDT
Novel Compound Turns Off Mutant Cancer Gene in Animals with Leukemia
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A compound discovered and developed by a team of Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers that halts cancer in animals with Ewing sarcoma and prostate cancer appears to work against some forms of leukemia, too. That finding and the team’s latest work was published in Oncotarget.

Released: 1-Oct-2015 12:05 PM EDT
NFLPA’S One Team for the Cure Shirts Back for 2015 Benefiting Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

One Team For The Cure shirts benefitting the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center in Washington, D.C. are now on sale online through One Team Shop (www.oneteamshop.com), the NFLPA’s e-commerce store featuring officially licensed player merchandise of more than 1,800 NFL players.

Released: 18-Nov-2015 12:05 PM EST
Georgetown Lombardi Hosts Patient/Physician Symposium Focused on GI Cancers
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

WASHINGTON (Nov. 18, 2015) – The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer,” a symposium for medical professionals, patients and advocates, Dec. 3-5, 2015 at Georgetown University.

10-Jan-2016 10:00 AM EST
New Analyses Confirms Biennial Mammography Starting at Age 50 Is Optimal for Average Women
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

New and comprehensive analyses from six independent research teams examining breast cancer screening intervals have produced a unanimous finding — that mammography screening every two years for average risk women ages 50 to 74 offers a favorable balance of benefits to harm.

Release date: 13-Jan-2016 5:05 PM EST
opinion the 2015 usda dietary guidelines a political and corporate spin on evidence based nutrition
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A Georgetown expert on nutrition shares his commentary on the recently released Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015–2020. "It is clear that the well-researched and evidence-based recommendations that became the Scientific Report have been passed through a political filter that fundamentally lessens the usefulness and impact of these guidelines; but there are positives."

15-Jan-2016 11:05 AM EST
Georgetown Public Health Experts: Congress Made a “Scientific Judgment for Which It Is Distinctly Unqualified”
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Two Georgetown University professors say a section of the recently passed Congressional spending bill effectively undermines science and the health of women. Their JAMA Viewpoint, “A Public Health Framework for Screening Mammography: Evidence-Based Versus Politically Mandated Care,” will be published online Tuesday.

Released: 16-Feb-2016 12:05 PM EST
Graphic Cigarette Warnings Trigger Brain Areas Key to Quitting Smoking
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Viewing graphic anti-smoking images on cigarette packs triggers activity in brain areas involved in emotion, decision-making and memory as observed via brain scans. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and Truth Initiative reported their findings online this week in Addictive Behaviors Reports.

Released: 4-Mar-2016 10:05 AM EST
Georgetown Author Says Radiation Fears Will Be “Rearranged” With New Book, Strange Glow
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

It’s a common paradox. Why is it that some people fear using cellphones believing radiation from the device will cause a brain tumor, but will gladly have a whole body CT scan to check for diseases without any signs or symptoms of anything wrong? Why do others fear microwave ovens, but have no issue with the nearby nuclear power plant that provides electricity for their kitchens?

10-Mar-2016 10:05 PM EST
10-Minute Urine Test Can Measure Specific Compounds from Food Consumed
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Can we say goodbye to unreliable food diaries and diet recall in exchange for a urine test that will better aid researchers in figuring out what foods might help prevent cancer? Georgetown researchers have developed a method that can quickly evaluate specific food compounds in human urine.

21-Apr-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Top Tobacco Control Experts to FDA: Studies of E-Cigs Suggest More Benefit Than Harm
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Seven top international tobacco control experts are prompting regulators at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to have a broad “open-minded” perspective when it comes to regulating vaporized nicotine products, especially e-cigarettes.

12-May-2016 7:05 AM EDT
Review Finds Fathers’ Age, Lifestyle Associated with Birth Defects
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A growing body of research is revealing associations between birth defects and a father’s age, alcohol use and environmental factors, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center. They say these defects result from epigenetic alterations that can potentially affect multiple generations.

Released: 31-May-2016 8:05 PM EDT
Seeking Guidance for Clinicians Facing a Question of Human Rights
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A team of Georgetown University experts — a physician, a lawyer and an ethicist — are taking on an issue that occasionally confounds clinicians in the delivery room: should a physician, after helping deliver a child to a women whose genitals had been cut and vulva stitched together — an outlawed procedure generally called female genital mutilation or FGM — close her up again?

Released: 1-Jun-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Georgetown University and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research Offer Fellowship in Regulatory Science
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Georgetown University Medical Center and The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research announce a fellowship in regulatory science that will promote postgraduate training in the Parkinson’s research field to optimize clinical trial design and support approval of novel therapies.

Released: 7-Jun-2016 12:05 PM EDT
GI Cancers Alliance Launches to Elevate Patients’ Voices Against Gastrointestinal Cancers
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Twenty cancer advocacy groups from around the United States announce the formation of the GI Cancers Alliance, committed to the fight against gastrointestinal cancers, which include many of the leading cancer killers.

15-Jun-2016 7:00 AM EDT
“Disease Outbreak Guarantees” – A Proposed Mechanism for Enhancing Public Health Capacity
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

What if private companies could obtain some coverage to protect their foreign investments in developing countries against crippling infectious disease outbreaks such as Ebola? The possible path to offering disease outbreak guarantees is an idea being posed by two global health researchers who suggest that a mechanism for establishing such an instrument could be tied to public health investments.

23-Jun-2016 5:00 AM EDT
In Mice, Daughters of Overweight Dads Have Altered Breast Tissue, Higher Cancer Risk
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Obese male mice and normal weight female mice produce female pups that are overweight at birth through childhood, and have delayed development of their breast tissue as well as increased rates of breast cancer. The findings come from one of the first animal studies to examine the impact of paternal obesity on future generations’ cancer risk.

Released: 6-Jul-2016 12:05 PM EDT
Study Tests New Breast Cancer Drug in African American Women
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The first clinical trial to test a newly approved breast cancer drug specifically in African American patients is now enrolling at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and will begin soon at five other institutions in Washington, DC, Maryland, Alabama and New Jersey.

8-Jul-2016 2:05 PM EDT
Public Health Benefits of E-Cigarette Use Tend to Outweigh the Harms
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A modeling study by top tobacco control experts finds that e-cigarettes are likely to provide public health benefits based on “conservative estimates” of the likely uptake of vaping and smoking by adolescents and young adults. If used instead of smoking, e-cigarettes provide the potential to reduce harm and improve public health, says the lead author.

4-Aug-2016 10:05 PM EDT
new tool finds genes produce many more proteins than thought
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

In a surprise finding, scientists say a single gene can produce many more coding sequences for distinct protein variants than had been known — protein variants that could be used diagnostically or be targets for new drug therapies.

Released: 6-Sep-2016 4:05 PM EDT
2016 Ruesch Center Policy Briefing: Fighting a Smarter War on Cancer
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts its 2016 Cancer Policy Briefing, Wednesday, September 14 from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Georgetown University Law Center.

7-Sep-2016 3:05 PM EDT
Tamoxifen Resistance Linked to High Estrogen Levels in Utero
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

An animal study suggests that resistance to tamoxifen therapy in some estrogen receptor positive breast cancers may originate from in utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. The study provides a new path forward in human research as about half of the breast cancers treated with this common cancer therapy do not respond well, say researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, who led the multi-institutional research.

30-Sep-2016 6:05 PM EDT
Inhibiting Production of One Protein Restores Treatment Benefit in Resistant Breast Cancer
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

In animal models of human breast cancer, inhibiting a single protein restores sensitivity to tamoxifen, a commonly used drug for treatment of some breast cancers.

Released: 4-Oct-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Chris Mortensen to Receive the 2016 NFLPA Georgetown Lombardi Award
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Award-winning ESPN journalist Chris Mortensen has been named this year’s NFL Players Association Georgetown Lombardi Award honoree.

Released: 6-Oct-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Clarivate Analytics and Georgetown University Named a USPTO Cancer Moonshot Challenge Winner
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Clarivate Analytics announced its third place win with Georgetown University in the USPTO Cancer Moonshot Challenge held by the U.S. Commerce Department’s United States Patent and Trademark Office.

27-Oct-2016 10:05 AM EDT
Georgetown Researchers Describe Method to Study Real Time Cancer Invasion
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A research team at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has described the steps, in both written and video format, that allow cancer investigators to track, in real time, cancer cell invasion and metastasis in transparent zebrafish embryos. Using these fish models, researchers can find answers to cancer questions in one to three days instead of months for the typical mouse model.

31-Oct-2016 1:00 PM EDT
Study: Graphic Pictures on Cigarette Packs Would Significantly Reduce Smoking Death Rate
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Using prominent, graphic pictures on cigarette packs warning against smoking could avert more than 652,000 deaths, up to 92,000 low birth weight infants, up to 145,000 preterm births, and about 1,000 cases of sudden infant deaths in the U.S. over the next 50 years, say researchers from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Released: 29-Nov-2016 12:05 PM EST
Georgetown Lombardi Hosts Patient/Physician Symposium Focused on GI Cancers
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center hosts its 7th Annual “Fighting a Smarter War Against Cancer,” a symposium for medical professionals, patients and advocates, Dec. 1-3, 2016.

8-Dec-2016 11:00 AM EST
Smoking Down, Number of Lives Saved Up as More Countries Embrace Tobacco Control Measures
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Between 2008 and 2014, more than 53 million people in 88 countries stopped smoking due to tobacco control measures, which means that more than 22 million smoking-related deaths have been averted, say researchers at the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. These conclusions update their 2013 landmark study that found tobacco control measures undertaken by 41 countries between 2007-2010 had prevented 7.4 smoking-related million deaths.

Released: 15-Dec-2016 10:25 AM EST
Patient Prostate Tissue Used to Create Unique Model of Prostate Cancer Biology
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

For the first time, researchers have been able to grow, in a lab, both normal and primary cancerous prostate cells from a patient, and then implant a million of the cancer cells into a mouse to track how the tumor progresses. The achievement, say researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center who led the research, represents a critical advance in the effort to understand the origin and drivers of this puzzling cancer — the most common in men.

26-Jan-2017 6:05 AM EST
Understanding When Eating Soy Might Help or Harm in Breast Cancer Treatment
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have used animal models to reveal new information about the impact – positive and negative – that soy consumption could have on a common breast cancer treatment.

8-Feb-2017 2:05 PM EST
Smoking Cessation Counseling Successful When Paired with Lung Cancer Screening
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

The first successful randomized trial of its kind provides preliminary evidence that telephone-based smoking cessation counseling given to smokers shortly after undergoing lung cancer screening can be effective at helping people stop smoking.

Release date: 30-Apr-2017 12:05 AM EDT
precision medicine and immunotherapy tomorrow s cancer treatments today at georgetown lombardi
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A Maryland woman is benefitting from the intersection of two promising fields of science: precision medicine to genetically profile cancer and immunotherapy to unleash the immune system to fight it.

14-May-2017 5:00 PM EDT
Number of Mutations in a Tumor Varies by Age and Type of Cancer
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University

A team of investigators led by researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center has found that the tumor mutation load, or TML, in a patient’s cancer biopsy varied by age and the type of cancer, along with several other factors.


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