Clinical
Jeff Eastman has much to be thankful for. This Thanksgiving, Eastman, the university planner at VCU, is sending a message of gratitude to his care team at Massey Cancer Center. In June, Eastman completed a year of adjuvant therapy after receiving s...
Research
Steve Weissman knew the pain of losing his firefighter colleagues to cancer. It is why Weissman, the Virginia state director of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN), was determined to make sweeping changes for the profession even before he g...
Researchers and community members came together to share and learn from each other at last week’s inaugural Lung Cancer – Closing the Gap Summit held at 5th Street Baptist Church. The event, which focused on the importance of community engagement in ...
Research
Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center have published new study findings that establish rationale for the use of a class of drugs known as MDA-9 inhibitors as a potential treatment option for aggressive liver cancer. The findings — recently publishe...
Clinical
Nov 22, 2022
Jeff Eastman has much to be thankful for. This Thanksgiving, Eastman, the university planner at VCU, is sending a message of gratitude to his care team at Massey Cancer Center. In June, Eastman completed a year of adjuvant therapy after receiving surgery, radiation and chemotherapy treatment for a...
Research
Nov 21, 2022
Steve Weissman knew the pain of losing his firefighter colleagues to cancer. It is why Weissman, the Virginia state director of the Firefighter Cancer Support Network (FCSN), was determined to make sweeping changes for the profession even before he got his own diagnosis in 2016. “We are seeing these...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Nov 10, 2022
Kyle Jennings remembers the peer pressure he used to feel in high school. Because of it, he first picked up cigarettes at the age of 16. Smoking occasionally during his teen years eventually progressed to his dependance on tobacco as an adult. “I primarily smoked cigarettes,” Jennings said. “Althou...
Nov 09, 2022
Researchers and community members came together to share and learn from each other at last week’s inaugural Lung Cancer – Closing the Gap Summit held at 5th Street Baptist Church. The event, which focused on the importance of community engagement in addressing health disparities in lung cancer scree...
Research
Nov 07, 2022
Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center have published new study findings that establish rationale for the use of a class of drugs known as MDA-9 inhibitors as a potential treatment option for aggressive liver cancer. The findings — recently published in Hepatology — pave the way for future studies ...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Nov 01, 2022
When Margaret McGugan joins the pack of 50,000 runners for the New York City (NYC) Marathon on Nov. 6, she will have a support system every step of the way. “I am not running the marathon alone,” McGugan said from her home in North Chesterfield, Va. “My sister Terrie and my niece Meaghan have been t...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Oct 27, 2022
On Wednesday, Nov. 2, VCU Massey Cancer Center will host the inaugural Lung Cancer - Closing the Gap Summit. It will be held at The Grace Center inside 5th Street Baptist Church. Members of the community are encouraged to attend. “Lung is the biggest cancer killer in the country,” said Santiago Lim...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Oct 26, 2022
Like many women, Elisha Hicks figuratively wears many hats. The 47-year-old is a wife, mother, grandmother and graduate of Brunswick High School. She is also a two-time breast cancer survivor. “In January 2014, I noticed that my nipple was leaking,” Hicks remembered. “At first, the doctor thought...
Oct 26, 2022
On Sept. 30, 2022, about 60 faith leaders and community members joined Facts & Faith Friday for a virtual discussion on breast cancer, the most common and second deadliest cancer among women. ‘Breast Cancer: It’s Not a Black or White Issue,’ was a presentation by Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D., associa...
Research
Oct 25, 2022
Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center have set their sights on a new therapeutic target for an aggressive form of breast cancer with limited treatment options. Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in U.S. women, and triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a more aggressive and deadly for...
Center News & Funding
Oct 19, 2022
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer for women in the United States, and its incidence has incrementally increased over the past three decades. Minority populations are more significantly affected: breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among Hispanic women, and Black women hav...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Oct 18, 2022
The VCU Massey Cancer Center Goodwin Research Laboratory is hosting RAMmalogues, a facilitated discussion series that provides a braver and safer space to talk about social identity. During four sessions between August and November, participants have the opportunity to read and discuss the VCU Commo...
Center News & Funding
Oct 12, 2022
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) announced Wednesday that it is partnering with the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF) and working alongside the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Gilead Sciences, Inc. to lead the implementation of the Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical ...
Research
Oct 06, 2022
Researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center discovered a cellular partnership that drives the growth of deadly brain tumors and could potentially serve as a novel target for disease treatment. Gliomas are any cancer that start in the glial cells of the nervous system and account for nearly one-third of ...
Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Oct 03, 2022
The community-to-bench model of research reached a new level at VCU Massey Cancer Center on September 28 and October 1, 2022, as members of the Cancer Champions program visited a laboratory to see the work in action as part of the new Lab Open House series. “This was great,” said Bennie Gates follow...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Sep 27, 2022
The world had already been shut down for two months in May 2020 when Robin Williams heard the words that impacted her life even more during the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Invasive lobular carcinoma,” Williams remembered her cancer diagnosis. “It was less than a stage one, about the size of an M&M....
Research, Center News & Funding, Prevention & Control, Clinical
Sep 23, 2022
VCU Massey Cancer Center recently awarded a total of $200,000 to five early-career cancer researchers through its Institutional Research Grant (IRG) from the American Cancer Society (ACS) – a program that has been providing seed money to junior investigators at the university for nearly 50 years. T...
Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Sep 19, 2022
Panelists at the Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference shared negative impacts their native tribes are experiencing related to land, the climate and other issues. Listening in the audience were members of the VCU Massey Cancer Center team, poised to use this input for outreach addressing health a...
Community Engagement & Health Equity
Sep 13, 2022
The awards and recognitions ceremony agenda of the Richmond City Council meeting on September 12, 2022, began with an invitation by Rev. Michael Jones, D.Min., 9th district councilman. “I want to ask my colleagues to join us,” Jones extended from his position at the front of the council chambers. “T...
Center News & Funding, Research, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Sep 13, 2022
A project led by Virginia Commonwealth University researchers and funded last month by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, aims to reduce racial cancer disparities in the United States by studying what happens during the genetic counseling process that results i...
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