Center News & Funding
Oct 06, 2021
Doctors often remove lymph nodes to check whether cancer has spread from the breast to surrounding tissue, but that’s now avoidable for many patients in the Commonwealth Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center is the first in the state of Virginia to use an FDA-approved substance calle...
Center News & Funding
Sep 22, 2021
The three-year, approximately $3 million grant will focus on understanding and combating racial inequities in lung cancer Today, the National Cancer Institute announced that Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center has won a highly competitive SPORE grant – the first ever awarded in the...
Center News & Funding
Sep 20, 2021
Two Massey researchers were awarded funding that will support the expansion of their health research and translation of that research into improved care for patients. Wendy Bottinor, M.D., and Jiong Li, Ph.D., are two of VCU’s 2021 KL2 scholars. The KL2 Mentored Career Development Award provides ear...
Center News & Funding
Sep 01, 2021
On Tuesday, August 31, 2021, researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center, VCU Wright Center for Clinical and Translational Research, Duke Cancer Institute and the Duke Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI), held a virtual event kicking off a series of conver...
Center News & Funding, Research
Aug 31, 2021
Emmanuel A. Taylor, MSc, DrPH, has had a long career working to reduce health disparities. For the last 17 years, he served as health scientist administrator and program director in the Office of the Director of the Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD) at the National Cancer Institute ...
Center News & Funding, Research, Prevention & Control, Diet & Nutrition
Aug 23, 2021
Tobacco use is the most preventable cause of death in the U.S., and cigarette smoking increases the risk of a wide variety of cancers. Previous research suggests that e-cigarettes may serve as a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes; however, less is known regarding the effect of e-ciga...
Center News & Funding
Aug 16, 2021
Wendy Lankford remembers her family’s dark days with cancer. It is behind her determination to now offer light to patients dealing with their own diagnosis. In 1999, Lankford’s mother started Barksdale Cancer Foundation (BCF) with other loved ones after losing three family members to cancer in a fo...
Center News & Funding
Aug 09, 2021
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke to a virtual audience of nearly 160 faith leaders and members of the Virginia Commonwealth University community on July 16. As the featured guest of the weekly Facts & Faith Fridays call, Collins explained he h...
Center News & Funding, Research, Prevention & Control
Aug 05, 2021
Human papillomaviruses (HPV) are the most common sexually transmitted infection. Ordinarily these infections are resolved by the body’s immune responses, but if the virus evades these, it can lead to multiple health complications such as genital warts and a variety of cancers, including cervical can...
Center News & Funding
Aug 02, 2021
On October 4, 1951, Henrietta Lacks passed away from cervical cancer at the age of 31, but her contributions to science are immortal. Unlike other samples collected by researchers during the time of her cancer treatment, cells from Lacks’ biopsy survived and multiplied in a laboratory. The cell line...
Center News & Funding
Jul 27, 2021
For the 11th year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked VCU Medical Center, which includes VCU Massey Cancer Center’s oncology patient care, as the number one hospital in the Richmond metro area in its annual “Best Hospitals” rankings. Massey’s cancer care was recognized as “High Performing”...
Center News & Funding
Jul 26, 2021
Robert Winn, M.D., director and Lipman Chair in Oncology at VCU Massey Cancer Center, has been elected by the members of the Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) to serve as vice president and president-elect of the AACI’s board of directors, effective immediately. He serves on the board...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jul 12, 2021
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death in men in the United States, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It grows slowly and has a positive prognosis if detected early; however, prostate cancer typically spreads to the bone wh...
Center News & Funding
Jul 09, 2021
Tremayne Robertson joined VCU Massey Cancer Center on July 1 as the director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). In his role, Robertson will lead initiatives promoting DEI in Massey practices, procedures, policies, personnel and patient care. “DEI can and does inform the work being done daily ...
Center News & Funding, Research
Jul 02, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher David Wheeler, M.P.H., Ph.D., was awarded more than $1.3 million in total funding through a U01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to better understand environmental, geographic and socioeconomic risk factors that lead to bladder cancer and non-Hodgkin...
Research, Center News & Funding
Jun 28, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center scientist Senthil Radhakrishnan, Ph.D., has been awarded $792,000 over four years by the American Cancer Society to explore a new approach to treating triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC accounts for about 15 percent of all breast cancers diagnosed and disproportiona...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Jun 16, 2021
This Father’s Day, we invite you to celebrate a dad or father figure in your life by making a gift to Massey in their honor or memory.
Center News & Funding
Jun 15, 2021
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has connected with members of the VCU Massey Cancer Center team several times since his January 2018 inauguration. For the first time, however, a walk-through inflatable colon was the backdrop on June 4, 2021. Northam stopped by the Massey tent and colon cancer awaren...
Center News & Funding, Adult Outpatient Pavilion
Jun 14, 2021
Get a sneak peek! VCU Health’s new 17-story Adult Outpatient Pavilion opens in December with a multitude of outpatient services easily accessible under one roof, including an oncology wing that will consolidate the majority of VCU Massey Cancer Center’s clinics on the downtown medical campus. The st...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity, Research
Jun 09, 2021
Vanessa B. Sheppard, Ph.D., was recently conferred the 2021 Women in Science, Dentistry and Medicine Professional Achievement Award from the VCU School of Medicine. Sheppard is the Theresa A. Thomas Memorial Chair in Cancer Prevention and Control and associate director for community outreach, engage...
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