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
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 Pavilion that will consolidate the majority of VCU Massey Cancer Center’s clinics on the downtown medical campus. Th...
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...
Center News & Funding
Jun 08, 2021
It’s not the 10K without the #MasseyChallenge In a year that has been largely defined by COVID-19, one thing has remained constant: Massey Nation’s commitment to fighting cancer, no matter what. Cancer doesn’t stop for a pandemic, and for our Massey Challenge team captains, neither do they. COVID-19...
Center News & Funding
May 21, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center joins doctors and scientists across America at National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated cancer centers and other organizations in issuing a joint statement urging the nation’s health care systems, physicians, parents and children, and young adults to get the human papillom...
Research, Center News & Funding
May 06, 2021
VCU Massey Cancer Center researcher Sarah Spiegel, Ph.D., was recently named as one of 30 scientists among the first-ever class of an international fellows program established by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB). The ASBMB launched this honorific program to recogn...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 05, 2021
Nurses are heroes. Compassion is their superpower. Join us to celebrate nurses making a difference in the lives of Massey cancer patients. At Massey, compassion is more than a quality all our nurses share — it is at the very core of who they are. Massey nurses don’t just treat cancer, they treat pe...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Apr 30, 2021
Honor and celebrate moms on Mother's Day
Center News & Funding
Apr 07, 2021
Richmond Magazine’s annual list of “Top Docs” once again recognizes a number of VCU Massey Cancer Center physicians. Featured in the magazine’s April 2021 issue, the list includes 46 doctors from varied specialties who provide oncology-related care to Massey’s patients, including 16 who care for ped...
Center News & Funding, Community Engagement & Health Equity
Mar 29, 2021
Your doctor is more than a caregiver. At VCU Massey Cancer Center, our doctors are champions, confidants and, through challenging times, heroes. National Doctors’ Day honors physicians across the U.S. for their dedication to their patients and commitment to improving health. Cancer does not stop fo...
Center News & Funding, Clinical, Prevention & Control
Mar 26, 2021
A group of cancer specialists at VCU Massey Cancer Center were recently awarded $5 million from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to implement a lung cancer screening and precision oncology program within the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System (CVHCS). Co-principal investigat...
Center News & Funding
Feb 25, 2021
For Richmond developer and cancer survivor George Emerson (B.S.’78/B) and four of Richmond’s top builders at Eagle Construction, Eastwood Homes, HHHunt Homes and Main Street Homes, showing and selling new riverfront homes in the Chesterfield neighborhood of Meadowville Landing this year is about mor...
Center News & Funding
Feb 03, 2021
Susan Hong, M.D., M.P.H., FACP, joined VCU Massey Cancer Center and VCU Health in January as the director of the Cancer Survivorship Program. She also holds the RGC Professorship in Cancer Research and is an associate professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care at the VCU ...
Treatments in clinical trials may be more effective or have fewer side effects than the treatments that are currently available. With more than 200 studies for multiple types of cancers and cancer prevention, Massey supports a wide array of clinical trials.
Massey supports hundreds of top cancer specialists serving the needs of our patients. Massey’s medical team provides a wealth of expertise in cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention and symptom management.