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...
Research
Aug 13, 2021
Study shows that between 2013-2018, as many states were legalizing recreational marijuana, cancer patients continued to abstain in large numbers Richmond, Va. — Aug. 13, 2021 — Last month, three states – Virginia, South Dakota and Connecticut – joined the ranks of more than a dozen others that have ...
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...
Research, Prevention & Control
Aug 03, 2021
While much of the health research around men who have sex with men (MSM) involves HIV, these communities are at increased risk for other health problems including certain types of cancer, substance use and mental health issues. A new scoping review by VCU School of Medicine and Massey Cancer Center ...
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, 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...
Research
Jun 22, 2021
To commemorate Pride Month 2021, the Biden administration issued a proclamation that celebrates the accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community but also acknowledges the ongoing struggle to secure equity for this population in many areas impacted by government policy, including health care. In line wit...
Research
Jun 16, 2021
Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease in which malignant cells form in the tissues of the pancreas, a long and flat gland located behind the stomach that helps with digestion and blood sugar regulation. Because pancreatic cancer is difficult to detect early, it is associated with a low survival...
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...
Research
Jun 07, 2021
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., a research member at VCU Massey Cancer Center and the director of Massey’s Biostatistics Shared Resource, recently won the 2021 Outstanding Statistical Applications Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) for his paper “Bayesian Nonparametric Policy Searc...
Prevention & Control, Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 27, 2021
On Thursday, May 20, in honor of Brain Cancer Awareness Month, VCU Massey Cancer Center’s neuro-oncology team presented an “Insider’s Experience” virtual panel presentation highlighting critical breakthroughs and advances in neuro-oncology that are improving care of patients with brain cancer. “[Ou...
Research
May 25, 2021
Young men with obesity are at risk for developing a host of health complications, including cancer, heart disease and cardiometabolic disease. To better understand the behaviors that contribute to obesity in this demographic and identify solutions, researchers at VCU Massey Cancer Center are testing...
Clinical, Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 20, 2021
In March 2020, when the pandemic hit, there were no approved treatments or vaccines for COVID-19. A little more than a year later, much of the world is being vaccinated, and fewer people with COVID-19 are dying — kept alive and off ventilators with the help of approved treatments. None of that woul...
Research
May 19, 2021
Nearly a quarter of pregnant women say they’ve been around secondhand smoke – in their homes, at work, around a friend or relative – which, according to new research, is linked to epigenetic changes – meaning changes to how genes are regulated rather than changes to the genetic code itself – in babi...
Research
May 10, 2021
Sean Koebley, Ph.D., was recently bestowed the 2021 VCU Science Communication Award for his presentation: “Goodbye, P-value: Practical Bayesian Statistics To Replace Frequentist Statistics.” Koebley is a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department at VCU, where he works with VCU Massey Cancer Cent...
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...
Research, Community Engagement & Health Equity
May 05, 2021
Among the upper echelons of academic surgery, Black and Latinx representation has remained flat over the past six years, according to a study published today in JAMA Surgery by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center and University of Florida Health. The study tracked t...
Research
Apr 30, 2021
Through T cell engineering, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center show that it’s possible to arrest tumor growth for a variety of cancers and squash the spread of cancer to other tissues. This research will be published in tomorrow’s print edition of Cancer Research. ...
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